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British mining giants Anglo American and Rio Tinto, which have been in fierce competition with Chinese companies in Africa, have declared that they will hold their Chinese counterparts to strict environmental and labor standards...
Read MoreThe Boston Globe reviews Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life (三峡好人): Fengjie County, which lies along the Yangtze River in China, is flood-prone. To stem the deluges, the region has made way for the Three Gorges Dam, an epic,...
Read MoreNewsday reports on the new crop of luxury hotels popping up all over China: You used to be able to count the number of China’s five-star hotels on five fingers, so the emergence of world-class accommodations here is...
Read MoreThe Motley Fool gives a run-down of the major infrastructure projects in China slated for the coming three years, including the recently opened Terminal 3 at the Beijing airport: China’s Olympian infrastructure plans...
Read MoreLawyer Teng Biao, who was whisked away in an unmarked car on Thursday evening, has been released. From Reuters: On Saturday afternoon, Beijing police released Teng after two days in detention that had already attracted intense...
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