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...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 antitrust charges against Microsoft in 2000. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...
...industry analysts were skeptical that China would actually act against the proposed Rio-BHP tie-up. They assumed the Ministry of Commerce was just venting after the Chinalco deal failed. But a banking source with close ties to the Australian mining industry says that perception is wrong. "The antitrust review is real, and right now if I had to bet, I'd bet that [the Rio-BHP Billiton iron-ore tie-up] doesn't happen. The Chinese are going to block...
...know I wrote a glowing review of my Giants experience and I still stand by everything I wrote. The Giants are good, the stadium is great, and the fans are all right. Also, as my mom pointed out to me after the game, the game I had gone to marked the 50th anniversary of Willie McCovey’s first major league home run. I feel like that should have been a sign, but sadly it’s not. Thinking back to that game, I realize I had no idea what happened in the actual baseball game. That?...
...have some skin in the game," says Enthoven. In Massachusetts, which passed universal-health-insurance provisions in 2006, some 40% of residents who purchased policies through the state's exchange opted for the cheapest plans, called bronze policies, according to Trudy Lieberman, a health-policy journalist who recently reviewed that state's experience for Columbia Journalism Review...
...challenge what has been perceived as an automatic right to move from temporary residence to permanent settlement, giving Government the flexibility to raise or lower the threshold for settlement based on the needs of the country," writes Immigration Minister Phil Woolas in the proposal, which is undergoing a public review...