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From Reuters: Bank of China, planning an $8 billion share sale, said on Monday it had learned from its mistakes and would tighten internal controls, after former staff were charged in the United States with a scheme to defraud the bank of nearly half a billion dollars over 13 years. The lender, one of China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) said in a report issued on Sunday that China’s urban income gap between rich and poor has widened to an alarming and unreasonable level. The SDRC made the announcement in line with a social investigation into China’s urban residents and relevant statistics from the National Bureau […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, home to the world’s deadliest coal mines, has set a deliberately modest goal to reduce the death toll this year by beefing up safety and closing thousands of unsafe collieries, state media said. Official figures show 3,341 gas explosions, pit floods and other accidents in Chinese coal mines killed 5,986 people in […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: HOME to nearly two-fifths of humanity, two neighbouring countries, India and China, are two of the world’s fastest-growing economies. The world is taking notice. In December, a report by America’s National Intelligence Council likened their emergence in the early 21st century to the rise of Germany in the 19th and America in […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: China’s spectacular economic rise over the past quarter-century has started to create enormous wealth, and prices for Chinese art have risen steeply, especially in the last three years. But Chinese art collectors have barely begun to show interest in Western masterpieces. Japanese banks, insurers and individuals shook the art world […]
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