Friday, 11 July 2014 Earlier this summer, IMF bureaucrats went to Sofia, Bulgaria to study the country’s economic progress. And roughly a month ago, they released an official report which stated, among other things, that Bulgarian banks are “stable and liquid.” Talk about epic timing. Because less than two weeks later, Bulgaria’s banking system was…
EEV Note – If you have any love of country left, do not let this happen Article Quotes: – they must sing for their supper – the patriotic ditty Learn from the Good Model Citizen Lei Feng, named after the supposedly selfless People’s Liberation Army soldier hailed by Mao Zedong. – Overseeing proceedings will be 200 Chinese…
New ITUC Global Rights Index – The world’s worst countries for workers 19 May 2014 A global leaderboard in the race to protect workers’ rights was released today at the ITUC World Congress in Berlin. The ITUC Global Rights Index ranks 139 countries against 97 internationally recognised indicators to assess where workers’ rights are best protected,…
Beijing and Hong Kong authorities warn against travel to Vietnam after protesters, angry over oil drilling in disputed waters, run amok PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 14 May, 2014, 12:23pm Denise Tsang and Agencies in Hanoi The Hong Kong government issued an amber travel warning for Vietnam after protesters there vandalised hundreds of foreign-owned factories and torched…
UPDATED : Monday, 21 April, 2014, 6:24am Stephen Chen binglin.chen@scmp.com A container ship owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines of Tokyo. A court in Shanghai has seized a large Japanese ore carrier at a port in Zhejiang province to enforce a verdict seeking compensation for the sinking of two civilian Chinese cargo ships during the second…
Financially troubled EU countries are reaching out to wealthy foreigners – particularly from China – to offer residency in return for investment UPDATED : Thursday, 06 February, 2014, 3:28am Benjamin Robertson and Patrick Boehler Illustration: Sarene Chan Jason Wu of Shanghai says he loves Portugal’s scenery and climate. He admires Europe’s education system. He’s so…
EEV CONNECTION – US government had a deal with Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa that allowed the group to smuggle billion of dollars of drugs in return for information on its rival cartels ( Link ) . If confirmed, corruption is now endemic at the highest levels of Government Fears of ‘unholy alliance’ between notorious Sinaloa cartel…
Family members of Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping, along with Tencent billionaire and China’s richest woman, are among 20,000 people in Hong Kong, the mainland and Taiwan whose offshore holdings have been exposed UPDATED : Wednesday, 22 January, 2014, 11:10am Patrick Boehler patrick.boehler@scmp.com A combined images of some famous billionaires mentioned in the ICIJ report.…
Illustration: Tim Meko By Marina Walker Guevara, Gerard Ryle, Alexa Olesen, Mar Cabra, Michael Hudson and Christoph Giesen January 21, 2014, 4:00 pm Key Findings Government officials and their families and associates in China, Azerbaijan, Russia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and other countries have embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts.…
UPDATED : Thursday, 28 November, 2013, 6:04pm Chris Luo chris.luo@scmp.com Yang Yujun, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence, briefs reporters at a recent Beijing news conference. Photo: CNS China’s defence ministry on Thursday hit back forcefully at Japan’s objections to its newly-established Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea that covers…
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 October, 2013, 9:00pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 October, 2013, 9:36pm Patrick Boehler patrick.boehler@scmp.com Africa Live presenter Beatrice Marshall says that through her news show Africans “are telling the story from our perspective”. Photo: AFP China’s government and state-owned companies are putting more pressure on media outlets around the world to prevent…
Benjamin CarlsonOctober 20, 2013 06:05 Follow @bfcarlson For centuries, China’s leaders have relied on Sun Tzu’s masterpiece of strategy. The result? Tragedy, weakness and defeat to inferior forces. These traditional Russian Matryoshka dolls feature Chinese leaders since the overthrow of the imperial Qing dynasty in 1911, through 2002. Sinologist Edward Luttwak argues that the country…
Chancellor dismisses suggestions that China has a ‘sweatshop’ economy and wishes Britain would be more like the communist country Lewis Smith Friday, 18 October 2013 Britain is no longer great, is defeatist and unambitious and needs to be more like China, the Chancellor has said. In an astonishing trashing of his country’s attitudes, George Osborne…
Superhuman suits worn by comic book heroes may not be science fiction if US army scientists succeed in developing advanced body armour PUBLISHED : Sunday, 13 October, 2013, 12:00am UPDATED : Sunday, 13 October, 2013, 6:15am Agence France-Presse in Washington US Army Sergeant Matthew Oliver showcases an example of futuristic soldier armour at the Chicago…
Tuesday, 15 October, 2013 [Updated: 5:32PM] Reuters in Beijing Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (left) shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai after a signing ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. Photo: EPA China will give London-based investors the right to buy up to 80 billion yuan (HK$101.2 billion) worth of mainland…
