How to Do Guilt-Free Business with Beijing

avril 30, 2008

From SK-II's problem in China and Japan's international trade fight to rumors about Carrefour supporting free-Tibet activists, global companies are running into political problems inside China. From the Financial Times: Read more

China Says Speeding Caused Deadly Crash

avril 30, 2008

From AP: Investigators on Tuesday blamed speeding for China's worst train accident in a decade, a disaster that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 400. Read more

China Says 30 Protesters Jailed Over Riots in Lhasa (Update1)

avril 30, 2008

The number of jailed Lhasa protesters now roars to 30. From Bloomberg: Chinese authorities in Tibet said 30 people were jailed yesterday for taking part in pro-independence riots in Lhasa last month. Read more

Slow FX Inflows by Separating Gas and Fire

avril 30, 2008

Wang Tao, an economist from Bank of America, writes on slowing foreign exchange inflows, the weakening dollar and Yuan rate revaluation. From Caijing.com.cn: Read more

Chinese Students in U.S. Fight View of Their Home

avril 30, 2008

From The New York Times: Rather than blend in to the prevailing campus ethos of free debate, the more strident Chinese students seem to replicate the authoritarian framework of their homeland, photographing demonstration participants and sometimes drowning out dissent. Read more

Chine : une catastrophe écologique annoncée

avril 30, 2008


J. H.-R.Les Echos30 avr. 2008La thèse. « La Chine a troqué son environnement contre son développement. » Marc Mangin, journaliste économique et spécialiste de l’Asie, livre une analyse sans concession des conséquences sur l’environnement de la croissance chinoise qui fait tant…lisez plus…

Iran’s Other Weapon of Mass Destruction

avril 30, 2008

THE MOGAMBO GURU : At the center of a flood of debt

avril 30, 2008

Look out any US window and the view is nothing but a sea of unpaid bills, with all that subprime mortgage panic a drop in the ocean of woes facing a low-IQ nation that thinks it can painlessly borrow and inflate its way out of any debt. It can't. And if you want to survive the threat of drowning like your neighbors, sell everything and buy that golden lifeboat

IMF spreads power a little wider

avril 30, 2008

The poorer members of the International Monetary Fund, many still bridling from the terms of bailouts, including those imposed in the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, have secured themselves marginally stronger voting rights in the organization, against the wishes of Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Mumbai slum nears its end - perhaps

avril 30, 2008

Lehman Brothers, Dubai World, Reliance Engineering and others wanting a stake in a US$2.3 billion Mumbai redevelopment project have an extra month to make their final bids. Not long, given the 13 years since the idea was conceived. Yet it gives the million or so slum-dwellers to be cleared for the project more time to win political support for a rethink, and drive up costs. - Sudha Ramachandran

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