From BBC: Voters in Hong Kong are electing the members of a committee that will choose the territory’s next leader. Pro-democracy groups are hoping to win enough representation on the 800-seat committee to enter a candidate in next March’s chief executive contest. There are 427 seats being contested, with the rest already allocated. Candidates will […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Mayoral votes in Taiwan’s two largest cities have ended, with the opposition winning in the capital Taipei but losing in the port of Kaohsiung. The governing Democratic Progressive Party‘s candidate narrowly held on to the party’s stronghold of Kaohsiung. But the opposition Kuomintang party’s candidate won a huge victory in Taipei. A BBC […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s population is so large and its economy growing so quickly that the Chinese are set to take over second place in the league table of the world’s wealthy people in the next decade. Research published this week by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-Wider) […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Chinese officials confirmed that they have re-arrested a Shanghai tycoon first jailed in 2003, making him the latest prominent figure in China’s commercial capital to fall amid a corruption probe involving the city’s pension system. Zhou Zhengyi, once one of China’s wealthiest people, was arrested in November “to investigate some […]
Read MoreFrom AP via CBS: Several Chinese suppliers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fail to pay legally required wages or provide health insurance and allow poor working conditions, a Hong Kong-based labor group says. A Wal-Mart spokesman said Friday it was looking into the claims in a report issued this week by China Labor Watch. Managers at […]
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