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From ABC News (Australia): In the Chinese city of Shanghai, 42 people have been detained for their role in anti-Japanese protests. The Shanghai Daily says 16 of those will be charged with disturbing social order. The newspaper says another 26 have been placed in “short-term detention” after allegedly throwing objects at the Japanese consulate and […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong said in Beijing Monday that the Chinese government will help the Afghan government train professional personnel for fields such as diplomacy and economy. Zeng said China is ready to push forward bilateral relations with Afghanistan as the two countries celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: If proof were needed that the art market and the broader economy do not function under the same rules, it was spectacularly provided during New York Asia Week, which began on March 28 and lingered on into April. China and India may vie with one another as the economic giants of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: Lesotho-based producers can no longer compete with the cheap goods being dumped into the American market by China’s powerful clothing sector after it was freed from the quota system. The rand, which has more than doubled in value against the dollar, has equally doubled their costs. Textiles had become the biggest single […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The forests of Zhangjiagang are horizontal: tens of thousands of felled, stripped trees lying on the quayside of China’s biggest timber port, far from their roots in Indonesia, Russia, South America and Africa. The trunks of pine, maple, merbau and zebra wood are dead, but this forest is growing. Every year, more […]
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