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From People’s Daily: Coal mining will soon cease to exist as an industry in south China’s Guangdong Province. In the wake of the Daxing Coal Mine flooding in Xingning in Guangdong in early August, which killed 123 miners, the provincial government has already shut down 112 mines because they lacked the required production or work […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group Plc and Universal Music Group are suing Baidu.com Inc., China’s most-used Internet search engine, for allowing free downloads of their music. The companies filed lawsuits against Baidu in the Beijing Intermediate Court, seeking to stop it from offering the service, Leong May Seey, […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Most of the world is getting used to the fact that China is now a major player on the economic stage – it has witnessed the most rapid industrialisation in history, but is this phenomenal rate of change sustainable? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development seems to think so. People’s Daily […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal, via Glimpse of the World blog: Are Americans missing a revolution? Across the Pacific, China’s emergence is reshaping not only trade, but also world finances, global manufacturing and the entire East Asian economy. This should naturally give rise to searching debate. But the debate we are actually having is limited […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Guardian: China proposed Friday that North Korea retain the right to a peaceful nuclear program after abandoning its weapons, but Pyongyang rejected the idea. “We will never give up our nuclear”...
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