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From the AP, via Newsday: Economic officials from the world’s richest countries resumed their pressure on China to adopt a more flexible exchange rate and called Saturday for vigorous action against such threats to growth as high oil prices, protectionism and inflation. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven nations, meeting […]
Read MoreFrom the Jerusalem Post: On the morning of July 6, 1913, Shaw Bah Tien sat in his private room, waiting. The atmosphere in the house was tense. His beloved wife, Ni, was about to give birth. He had never been a father and was a little unsure of the procedure. They had not been married […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Chinese authorities have arrested almost 1.2 million people suspected of illegal betting offences during a nine month crackdown, state media reported today. The arrests were part of a nationwide anti-gambling campaign from January to September in which police seized ¬£166m and investigated 163,000 cases. The crackdown was aimed mainly at preventing public […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: A high-level UN investigator condemned what he found to be “widespread” use of torture in the judicial system of mainland China and said Beijing must overhaul its criminal laws, grant more power to judges and abolish labor camps before it can end such abuses, according to an official report released […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: With China reporting its first two human deaths from bird flu, international health specialists are warning that current tallies may greatly underestimate the problem, there and elsewhere. Scientists have long been mystified by the low number of cases in humans reported in China, which has such a severe bird flu […]
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