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...Chinalco that their deal would not go through after all. It would, instead, float a rights issue to raise money needed to pay down a massive debt load, as well as enter into a joint venture with BHP Billiton - the mining giant that last year tried to buy Rio outright. Xiong, in a statement issued by Chinalco, simply said he was "disappointed" at the outcome...
...very western way - to gain approval in Australia for what would have been China's largest foreign investment ever: a proposed $19.5 billion stake in Rio Tinto, the world's second largest mining company. The deal would have given Chinalco roughly an 18% stake in Rio, as well as outright control of some valuable copper and iron ore mines. Xiong travelled to Australia in March and made television appearances to plead his case. He pressed the flesh with politicians in Canberra who were both for and against the deal...
...Reilly, Bill •claims by that past references of to George Tiller as "the baby killer" only reported what others were calling him are outright lies...
...numerous times. Although the population of sea otters in the area has recovered since the spill, the return has been slow, and researchers suspect the oil might be the reason. "The pattern shows evidence that they're still being exposed," says Rice. "It's not enough to kill them outright anymore, but it's a chronic exposure - and in an environment like this, when species live close to the edge, that could make a difference...
...Hong Kong's notoriously raucous press. She points to a new report by Freedom House, an American NGO that tracks freedom-of-the-press issues, which labeled Hong Kong's press corps "free" in 2008, but downgraded it to "partly free" in 2009. The problem, Lau says, is not outright repression but self-censorship. "People are getting too scared to speak...