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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...
...Navarro said that the clothes, especially because they will be marketed around the world, may discourage poor students interested in Harvard. "If a student, whether from Los Angeles or Shanghai, goes into a store and sees a Harvard brand name that they can't afford, it's easy to think, 'I can't afford to go to Harvard,' or 'Harvard is for rich people...
...after another round of internal unrest, China chose to modernize its economy and adopted market mechanisms to do so, with astonishing success. Cut (in the movie version of this story) to a shot of the crazy skyline of Pudong from the banks of the Huangpu in Shanghai...
...lites, we often forget, have had economic and cultural links with Europe for 300 years; by the 18th century, the Chinese were producing porcelain for the European market and avidly studying European art and architecture. In particular, says Mitter, the first half of the 20th century - that period when Shanghai was at its peak, but which is routinely dismissed in the thumbnail history - is "really important; the questions about their society that Chinese are asking now are very similar to the ones that they asked in the 1920s and 1930s." (Read "Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy...
...Shanghai Easing the One-Child Policy? Reports surfaced in international media that in an effort to respond to the rapid graying of the workforce, some couples in China's most populous city would be encouraged to have two kids. Shanghai officials denied any policy shift, but rumors persist that Beijing might be rethinking its controversial population-control policy...