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From Reuters: Mrs Song never had much interest in politics but when factory pollution began poisoning well water and killing crops, the young mother got angry. After an industrial park housing several chemical plants went up on the outskirts of her town in China’s wealthy, coastal province of Zhejiang the water became undrinkable. Then crops […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Two former Bank of China managers have been charged in the US with stealing $485m (£272m) and attempting to launder the money through Las Vegas casinos. Xu Chaofan, Xu Guojun and their wives were charged with 15 counts of racketeering, money laundering and fraud, the US Justice Department said.
Read MoreFrom the International Crisis Group: China’s influence on North Korea is more than it is willing to admit but far less than outsiders tend to believe. Although it shares the international community’s denuclearisation goal, it has its own concept of how to achieve it. It will not tolerate erratic and dangerous behaviour if it poses […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service: China, with its Security Council veto power and its seat on the board of the governors of the IAEA, plays a key role in how the world deals with Iran. Should Iran avoid sanctions now, and be allowed to develop its nuclear program – and possibly a nuclear device – Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: China’s economy again surged ahead in the past year, with a growth rate calculated at almost 10 percent. The sustained expansion in recent years has brought affluence to millions of urban Chinese. But in the countryside, millions of farmers have been left behind by the market reforms, or are having […]
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