Wednesday-Night

June 17
More floods threaten south China
Dykes and embankments are being reinforced in southern China amid some of the worst storms in decades.
1.66 million people had been evacuated from the hardest-hit areas over the past 10 days. Up to 70,000 of those being evacuated are from Wenchuan county in Sichuan - the epicentre of May’s deadly […]

More on Wednesday-night.com Food and Cleo Paskal
Agriculture & Food
June 03, 2008
ChinaDialogue.net
Different countries have divergent approaches to international trade, and these are changing the way food is bought and sold. As world leaders meet in Rome this week to discuss soaring prices, C Paskal considers China’s approach.
There is global concern over the security implications of […]

An unexpected treat … Chil Heward will be bringing his son Geoffrey, Senior Vice-President and Director of G.F.G. Heward.
Geoff began his investment career over 25 years ago working in London England as an Equity Dealer on the London Stock Exchange for Cazenove and Co, returning to Canada with Merrill Lynch […]

Last Wednesday Night’s discussion encompassed lunar-based solar technology, reports by Kimon of exciting developments in the New School of Athens global governance initiative, the environment, the economy and, of course, acclamation of the publishing achievement that has given birth to The Metropolitain. It was a full and challenging evening which we […]

Lu Shumin . The China of today
Ottawa Citizen
Friday, May 09, 2008
Many Canadians know that Canada is special to me. This is the country where I was first exposed to western culture, where I spent my memorable university years in the early 1970s, where I met my wife, where I started my […]

See also:
WHAT WENT WRONG - The Economy ; What’s next? ; and related posts on The Economy; Global Monitoring Report and World Hunger

US blights Asia outlook
Emerging Markets - 5th May 2008
By Steve Garton
The credit crunch has not yet played itself out, and Asian economies are not immune from the effects of falling export […]

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April 30 marks the hundred-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics - has everyone seen the news that China plans to clear out students and refugees from Beijing before the Games? Nothing being left to […]

Before doing our usual tour d’horizon of news and events around the globe, we would like to call to your attention much pleasanter local happenings: the Octet Plus (with Holly Jonas and David Oliver) concert on Saturday, 26 April; the Infinitheatre fundraiser (John Mavridis) on Tuesday 29 April - featuring […]

An Xin (a Canadian ex-pat in Beijing) writes:
So much of what is happening here now feels like a kind of déja vu. Once upon a time there was a people that lived on the edge of a great country. They annexed themselves to the country, only to find that their resources were mismanaged and eventually […]

18 April 2008
PBOC chief says China’s reserve growth ‘not desirable’
By Taimur Ahmad
(Emerging Markets) -Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, has said the rate of growth in China’s foreign exchange reserves is unsustainable, but the country cannot significantly change its policy because of uncertainties in the global economy.
In an exclusive interview with Emerging Markets in Washington […]