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The Olympic Protest Primer
April 22, 2008, 1 Comment

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 ...

UN ruling on Australia's continental shelf
April 22, 2008, 1 Comment

How may this affect the positioning of the nations claiming the Arctic? We note that the UN body involved in this decisi ...

The Arctic Oil Rush: Alex Shoumatoff
April 19, 2008, Comments Off on The Arctic Oil Rush: Alex Shoumatoff

No one should miss Alex Shoumatoff‘s piece on the Arctic Oil Rush In addition to a wealth of information about the ...

China’s finance policy
April 18, 2008, Comments Off on China’s finance policy

18 April 2008 PBOC chief says China’s reserve growth ‘not desirable’ By Taimur Ahmad (Emerging Markets) -Zhou Xiao ...

Wednesday Night #1363
April 16, 2008, 1 Comment

First, we would draw your attention to last Wednesday’s discussion of China, Tibet & the Olympics – a nu ...

Global Monitoring Report 2008
April 11, 2008, Comments Off on Global Monitoring Report 2008

World Bank IMF IMF’s Global economic prospects for 2009 (.pdf) April 11 Climate Change Rises On World Bank Agenda ...

China, Olympics & Politics – Opinions
April 11, 2008, Comments Off on China, Olympics & Politics – Opinions

April 11 Gwynne Dyer: Controversial flame has never burned brightly (New Zealand Herald) What’s actually colliding ...

China, Beijing Olympics
April 8, 2008, 3 Comments

 See also Tibet and The Olympic Protest Primer April 24 China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics Beijing & ...

Asian Inflation
April 8, 2008, Comments Off on Asian Inflation

April 8 2008 Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers By KEITH BRADSHER (NYT) BAT TRANG, Vietnam — For two genera ...

Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam
April 5, 2008, Comments Off on Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam

More on Biofuels April 05, 2008 Scammers see green dollars Scam artists can smell a fad. They feed on naive enthusiasm. ...