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From AP, via Business Week: The Bank of China revealed Saturday it fired a Beijing loan officer for his role in a mortgage loan scam three years ago that cost the bank some 645 million yuan (US$78 million; euro60 million), the government said. Xu Weilian, deputy chief of retail operations at one of the Bank […]
Read MoreFrom Dallas Morning News: In Fushun, a city of 2.3 million, the government workforce has fallen by 380,000 since 2000. Coal mines, construction companies and machinery factories have been pushed into the private sector, where they have shed employees or closed down. Song Xiuling, who sells raw fish and vegetables in an unheated warehouse market, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The pipeline that pours young, eager workers into China’s manufacturing juggernaut begins in the country’s interior at vocational schools like Hunan Top Software. So it is here in Ningxiang, a 10-hour drive from the factories on the southern coast, that clues can be found to a problem once thought inconceivable: […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Northeast China’s Liaoning Province is to launch a 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) environmental protection plan to fight river pollution with the idea being that polluters will foot the bill. The three-year plan will focus on controlling and reducing industrial pollutants along the Liaohe River, said Hou Yongshun, a senior engineer from […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has agreed to join U.N. peacekeeping operations in Sudan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said on Wednesday, extending Beijing’s diplomatic reach along with its new economic might… Now China is to send military engineering, medical and transport teams, as well as military observers, civil police and “political officials”, Xinhua news agency quoted […]
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