From International Herald Tribune: A 52-year-old farmer turned developer is as plain as his company’s English name – Country Garden. But the company’s debut Friday on the Hong Kong stock exchange has put him in the record books. Shares of Country Garden soared 35 percent on the opening day of trading in one of the […]
Read MoreFrom Dow Jones: Jailed Chinese dissident Wang Xiaoning and his wife Yu Ling have filed a lawsuit in the United States accusing Yahoo Inc. of complicity in the jailing Xiaoning and about 60 other people. The suit, in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, accuses Yahoo (YHOO) of voluntarily censoring and monitoring its Chinese users’ […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Construction workers using pick axes Friday started demolishing a home belonging to a Beijing family that has fought eviction for more than five years, with two people still inside. The standoff drew large crowds of angry neighbors who shouted at security guards. Similar scenes have played out across the capital as part of […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Nina Wang, formerly Hong Kong’s richest woman, has left her fortune to her feng shui adviser, her lawyer says. Businessman Chan Chun-chuen, 48, was the sole beneficiary of the multi-billion-dollar estate, he said. Ms Wang made the decision because Mr Chan understood her “personal philosophy”, he said. The announcement sets the stage […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A prominent critic of the Chinese government’s record fighting HIV/Aids is being harassed by the authorities weeks after receiving a major award. Dr Gao Yaojie exposed a 1990s blood transfusion scandal that infected thousands of people in Henan province. She was recently recognised for her work by a charity in New York, […]
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