From BBC: The son of a well-known campaigner for the rights of China’s Uighur minority has been jailed for tax evasion in the country’s north-west Xinjiang province. Alimu Ahbudurimu, son of Rebiya Kadeer, was jailed for seven years and fined for evading some $26,000 in taxes, Chinese state media report. Another of Ms Kadeer’s children, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: December 11 2006 has been pencilled into the diaries of foreign commercial banks operating in China ever since the country agreed to join the World Trade Organisation five years ago. With less than two weeks to go until China lifts many restrictions on banks’ ability to open new branches and offer products […]
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Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: A new homegrown wireless standard, TD-SCDMA, is being rolled out in time for the Beijing Olympics. Will it win gold or create headaches for global players? China has been a holdout in joining the world of next-generation mobile telephony, while consumers in Seoul and Tokyo enjoy blistering network speeds, greater voice capacity, and […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Explosions in two coal mines at opposite ends of China have killed at least 53 workers and injured many more. A gas explosion on Saturday in Jixi, in Heilongjiang province in the north-east, killed 21 miners, said the official news agency Xinhua. A few hours later, a similar explosion killed 32 miners in […]
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