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The Times offers a biographical portrait of Xi Jinping, the newly appointed Shanghai party secretary: Mr Xi is a scion of one of the Communist Party’s most respected revolutionary families and is presently the party boss of Zhejiang province, in the southeast, which is one of the most prosperous regions in China. As Shanghai party […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, a look at the nightly CCTV news broadcast and its failure to change with the times: In the face of radical economic and social changes over the past two decades, the choreography of news has helped China retain its monopoly on power. All television stations and newspapers remain government-controlled; news reports […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on today’s election in Hong Kong: Donald Tsang easily won re-election to another five-year term as Hong Kong’s chief executive Sunday in voting restricted to a Chinese-approved electoral body. Tsang defeated his challenger, Alan Leong, with 649 out of the 772 valid votes cast by the business and professional leaders who […]
Read MoreFollowing reports of money laundering in Macau by North Korea, the New York Times looks at Macau’s other claim to fame: it’s gambling enterprise, with a lengthy report on Macau businessman and casino king Stanley Ho (who, coincidentally, also operates a casino in Pyongyang): The Grand Lisboa is also the crown jewel of a casino […]
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