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Rupert Murdoch has at long last found a way back into the China market, with MySpace: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has signed a deal to bring its popular online social networking site, MySpace.com, to China. News Corp. and two venture capital firms agreed earlier this month to hire a former Microsoft executive to license the […]
Read MoreAfter news that China is slated to overtake the U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions, China is responding, according to the Christian Science Monitor: With China’s carbon footprint expected to outsize America’s within a year, officials in Beijing appear to be backing away from their view that global warming is a Western problem that developed countries […]
Read MoreIn Bhopal, India’s Central Chronicle, Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain writes an op-ed about the impact that China’s demand for iron ore is having on the economy, environment and people of the state of Goa: I wrote last fortnight about how mining in Goa for iron ore was ripping its forests and devastating its people. I […]
Read MoreWired Magazine has a profile of architect Alejandro Gutierrez and his plan to build the Chinese eco-city Dongtan: Three years ago, Alejandro Gutierrez got a strange and tantalizing message from Hong Kong. Some McKinsey consultants were putting together a business plan for a big client that wanted to build a small city on the outskirts […]
Read MoreIn Caijing, editor Hu Shuli writes: Those who raised alarms about bubbles and risks, as they did a month or two ago, are now considered out-of-date and pedantic.Despite the common sentiments of a hot-market environment, we want to remind investors about lessons from history and advocate caution as trading temperatures rise. [Full text]
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