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From the New Yorker: Upstairs, at stall No. 126, which sells familiar, brown-on-brown handbags labelled “Gochi,” Cai Shumin said that Old Bush had walked past her stall on the way to the high-end pearl shops on the fourth floor. He had passed by a large ad for Sharon’s Store, which features a photograph of a […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China on Thursday acknowledged that a since-detained government trader placed a series of disastrous bets on the price of copper in London this summer, leaving the state to cover hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, according to a report in official Chinese media. As rumors of the scandal filtered out […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: A public apology from China is an exceptionally rare event. But as a slick of toxic water makes its way along the half-frozen Songhua River towards the Russian city of Khabarovsk, the country’s leadership is saying sorry. This is not, however, to be read as a sign of an imminent end to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Phayul.com: China’s Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has appointed a political ally as acting party boss of Tibet, a move that further consolidates his power base. The party’s elite Central Committee recently appointed Zhang Qingli, 54, vice governor of the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang in China’s northwest, as acting party boss […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The number of confirmed HIV cases in China rose by more than half in the past year but poor monitoring and official obstruction still obscure the real scale of the AIDS epidemic, China’s top AIDS official said on Monday. The number of Chinese medically diagnosed with the HIV virus, which leads to AIDS, […]
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