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From Reuters: Flooding from two weeks of heavy rain in southern China has killed 93 people, a further 11 are missing and more than half a million people have been evacuated to higher ground, the official China Daily said on Saturday. “Nearly 12 million people in nine provinces, regions and municipalities have been affected by […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: China’s surging appetite for energy is engraved in the landscape of this gritty port city: waterfront piles of coal, gas pipes snaking along grimy roads, and tankers anchored amid islands where pirates once lurked. Zhenhai is at the heart of a global energy revolution. As China’s leading oil […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The first was an ambitious college professor whose “big character poster,” displayed on the grounds of Beijing University, was said to be the spark that set off a prairie fire of violent purges and denunciations, which quickly spread from the campus across the entire nation. Her opposite number in the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: It was a kinder, gentler Donald Rumsfeld who emerged at this year’s annual gathering of senior Asia-Pacific defense officials in Singapore recently. Press coverage of the U.S. defense secretary’s speech focused on his criticism of Iran as a “terrorist nation.” But the real story was his tempered, more nuanced discussions […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: Artisan cobblers, bag makers and weavers are at the heart of Italy’s long tradition in crafts and design. But many smaller, family-owned businesses have been hurt by competition from low-priced Chinese imports. Former centers of the Italian textile industry in places like Biella, in northern Italy, are now […]
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