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From ABC News (link): Investors in BHP Billiton Ltd. have a glitter in their eye when they look upon China, the superhot market that’s making the world’s largest diversified resources company ever richer. From iron ore to copper to oil, the global boom in commodities prices has thundered along at a historic pace in recent […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): In the fight against corruption and other job-related crimes, Chinese courts convicted six provincial and ministerial officials to prison in 2005, the same as in 2004, while much more lower level officials were given criminal penalty, chief justice Xiao Yang said Saturday. Courts across the country heard 24,277 cases of embezzlement, bribery […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent (link): China’s spectacular economic boom will mean the death of its major economic and maritime hub, the Bohai sea, unless action is taken to stop industrial pollution of its waters, environmental advisers said yesterday. The warnings, yet another example of the crisis gripping the world’s fastest-growing major economy, come as China tries […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post (link): Regional tensions. Diplomatic consequences. Security threats. Those were the fears when China’s parliament passed a law last year authorising the use of force against Taiwan should the self-governing island move toward formal independence. But a year later, as the rubber-stamp assembly meets once again for its annual 10-day […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media (link): Shanghai reporter Liu Ming hurries back to his office after a news conference with a state firm to file his report. He finds on his desk an instruction not to report what he heard. “The censors read Reuters and Bloomberg and decided the news was […]
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