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From Interfax: A journalist with the British newspaper, The Guardian, was beaten and had his mobile phone smashed last night during an attempt to visit the village of Taishi in Guangdong Province, the scene of an acrimonious dispute over a lucrative land deal. According to information received by Interfax, a Chinese citizen was killed in […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Made for trade, the modern city of Shanghai came into being in the second half of the 19th century as a commercial link with the West. British, French, German and American traders settled there, eventually followed by White Russian refugees. They built a metropolis with Asia’s first telephones, running water […]
Read MoreFrom Asahi Shimbun: China is flush with cash but hungry for resources, while North Korea is economically destitute but rich in mineral deposits. It seems like a perfect match. Investment in the repressive North by Chinese companies jumped from a paltry 10.4 million yuan (148 million yen) in 2003 to 1.36 billion yuan (19.4 billion […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pulse/XIC, via Asia Times: Foreign dotcoms are increasing their efforts to acquire leading Chinese Internet companies – a trend that will continue over the next few years, according to the latest findings by US-based financial consulting firm Morgan Stanley. “They [dotcoms] are pretty active and this trend will slow down somewhat next year […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Natural disasters have affected more than 201 million people – around one sixth of the population, according to the statistics from the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters released Friday. Floods and landslides have killed 1,247 people and left another 331 missing in China in the major flood season this year, a […]
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