Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
From Bloomberg: China Petrochemical Corp. signed a $2 billion agreement to develop Iran’s Yadavaran oil field, advancing prospects for a contract on the sale of liquefied natural gas to the world’s fastest-growing major economy. The field will produce 85,000 barrels a day in four years and a further 100,000 barrels a day three years after […]
Read MoreFrom SF Chronicle: As international diplomats gather in Bali to try to begin negotiating a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, their toughest challenge is how to deal with China’s fast rise as the world’s leading source of greenhouse gases. At the talks, which began Dec. 3 and continue until Dec. 14, no binding agreement […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Chinese politics are often not what they seem, and a recent coup by citizens in the seaport of Xiamen is a case in point. In late May, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao ordered city leaders to freeze construction of a plant slated to produce PX, a toxic chemical used in plastic and polyester, after […]
Read MoreFrom The China Elections and Governance website: Thank you for your introduction, Professor Zhu Yong. It is a great pleasure to be speaking at the largest law school in the world. When President Xu Xianming visited me in April this year, he told me there were 17,000 law students at your university, and I understand […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: Former President Lee Teng-hui openly voiced his dissatisfaction with the poor administration performance of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, saying that “we ourselves are being punished for electing the wrong person as [president].” Lee made the remarks during a seminar with young people at the Grand Taipei Hotel yesterday afternoon. Although […]
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