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...Earlier this year, Ethiopia's parliament passed a tough new law seeking to regulate charities and foreign humanitarian groups in the country. The law, which labels as foreign any local organization that gets more than 10% of its funding from abroad, restricts charity work on issues related to gender, ethnicity, children's rights and conflict resolution, and bars advocacy activities. The government says the law is meant to ensure that charities focus on development, but many fear it will deter those working in the field from taking bold actions like advocating for the hungry...
When the Chinese government announced earlier this week the formal arrest of four Shanghai-based executives of global mining giant Rio Tinto - one Australian citizen and three Chinese nationals - it seemed a deliberate ratcheting down of a case that had stunned foreign investors in the country. After all, Beijing had effectively dropped the case's most ominous element: the charge that Rio's Stern Hu and his three colleagues had allegedly stolen "state secrets," in part by bribing executives of Chinese steel companies, who are Rio's largest buyers of iron ore. Under a state-secrets charge, the four...
...China's response is three-pronged. First, the case against Hu and his Rio colleagues, which Vice Commerce Minister Fu Ziying earlier this week insisted will show foreign investors that China is "ruled by law now," will proceed. And while the industry insiders interviewed by TIME do not have detailed knowledge of the specific charges likely to be brought against the Rio executives, they describe the steel and mining businesses - in China as well as other developing countries - as industries in which "side deals" involving key principles like executives and government officials are common. Despite Walsh's assertion that there...
...June, when Rio and BHP Billiton announced their intention to form a joint venture, a Ministry of Commerce spokesman in Beijing said the proposal had "the obvious color of monopoly." China implemented a new antitrust law last year and has already used it once to block a high-profile foreign acquisition in China - Coca-Cola's planned buyout of juicemaker Huiyuan. The fact that the proposed Rio-BHP Billiton deal doesn't involve a Chinese firm is irrelevant. China's antitrust regulators have the same right to review the plans of two global companies as the E.U. did to bring...
...defended the crew's experience and said the exact cause will not be known for some time and the company would assist authorities with any investigation. PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare has also called for a full inquiry into the crash. In 2008, Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foreign Correspondent program revealed that 19 of most recent plane crashes in PNG, in which a total of 16 people were killed, none had been properly investigated. Sadly, it looks like it has take the deaths of another 14 people to prompt a proper inquiry into aviation safety in the country...