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...largest mining companies. If completed the deal would be the biggest foreign purchase any Chinese company has ever made. China Minmetals, another state-owned firm, said it would pay $1.7 billion in cash for Australia-based Oz Minerals, the world's second largest zinc miner. On Feb. 23, Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group of China purchased a $771 million stake in Australian iron-ore exporter Fortescue Metals Group...
...bird flu, it seems, is back. Last month's five deaths - one of the highest tallies of bird-flu deaths China has ever recorded in a month - were in locations as far removed from one another as Beijing in the north, Xinjiang in the west, Guangxi in the south, Hunan in the center and Shandong in the east. "From a disease-control perspective, the increase in cases in China is notable, as is the wide geographic spread," says Dr. Hans Troedsson, the World Health Organization's representative in China. There is still no evidence that the virus has mutated...
Chairman Mao's birthplace of Shaoshan is a powerful draw for anyone interested in Chinese history. Just don't expect to find too much history there. The town in China's central Hunan province has a museum, library and ersatz 1960s communal farm all dedicated to the founder of the People's Republic. His family home, cattle barn, shed, cattle pen and the family tomb have all been carefully preserved for the millions of tourists, many of them student groups on school-sanctioned "red tours," who visit Shaoshan each year. Newly built shrines - resembling the sort that might have been...
...commercially expedient invention of migrants, who devised new dishes - or adapted recipes from their homeland - in order to cater to American tastes. The sweet and spicy Chinatown classic, General Tso's Chicken, is one such creation, which Lee attempts to trace to the Qing dynasty general's hometown in Hunan province, only to be told that no one has heard of the dish (although a local official thinks the association would be a great way to generate tourism). But just as the demographics of America have been transformed, so has the business of Chinese-American food today. Top restaurant chain...
...crisis. The main China Central Television channel regularly airs a special program called "Battling the Blizzard." An often repeated news clip shows Premier Wen Jiabao picking up a bullhorn and apologizing to a crowd of disgruntled travelers trapped in the train station in Changsha, the icy capital of Hunan province. (Even the Premier was inconvenienced by the weather: his plane couldn't land in Changsha and was forced to divert to Wuhan, 180 miles away. Wen arrived in the capital by train.) "I'm very sorry that you are stranded and not able to go home earlier," Wen told...