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Check out some of China's top, young snowboarding talent. The boarders were interviewed at this winter's Nanshan Open snowboarding competition held outside Beijing.
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In part four of a five-part series on Putin's Russia, Financial Times' reporter Neil Buckley writes about two cities on the Sino-Russian border: Blagoveshchensk and Heihe. He describes the sometimes-prickly relationship between a post-Soviet city in hard times and its Chinese boomtown neighbor just a stone's throw away across the ...
Growth in Total Fed Credit is slowing even as the absolute amount climbs towards the trillion-dollar mark. That is no comfort to hungry folk in Yemen getting wasted as they riot in protest at the rising cost of bread. But then they didn't have the foresight to build a bunker and stock it with that essential of inflationary times - gold.
Visitors to China easily assume a superior stance when faced with aspects of the country not to their liking. Business leaders risk losing out when they dismiss its apparently monolithic political culture as one without prospect of change. - Matt Young
There are solutions to the US financial crisis - the proposed injection of US$3 billion into Ambac is not one of them. Prices have to come down, banks have to be recapitalized, risk premiums have to go up. But with little interest in tough medicine, we face higher inflation and a substantially weaker dollar. - Axel Merk
China's government may be having some success in its efforts to cool the country's housing market. Land in Shanghai is selling at more than half the prices fetched last November, while developers are breaking new ground with discounts.
The decision of the Australian government under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to pull out of an agreement reached under his predecessor to supply India with uranium may be reversed. First New Delhi will have to resolve its nuclear differences with Washington.
Compensation culture is taking hold in Turkey, where some say it's a progressive step for consumers' rights in a country where problems are generally sorted out far from the embarrassment of courtrooms. Consider Turkey's most famous plaintiff, Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan, who has lodged 71 cases in the past three years and won a fist-full of money. - Fazile Zahir (Feb 28, '08)
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