Hillary Clinton says powerful emerging economies may be more interested in exploiting natural resources than promoting real development
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 30th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Beijing eases monetary policy for the first time in two years in a sign of its unease over slowing growth
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 30th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Lu Qing, the wife of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, has been released by police, who detained her without explanation on Tuesday afternoon
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 29th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Latest move by the Communist party to assert control over the media industry
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 28th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Chinese funds would help to update the west’s infrastructure – starting with Britain – in exchange for stable and sound financial returns
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 28th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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The two Asian powers cancel talks to avoid an embarrassing clash with a high-profile Buddhist conference attended by the Dalai Lama in Delhi
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 28th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Chairman Lou Jiwei in an FT opinion piece said the sovereign wealth fund is ‘keen to participate in the UK infrastructure sector’
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 27th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Reykjavik’s interior minister has blocked a billionaire’s attempt to buy 300 square kilometres of wild heathland to develop a resort
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 25th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Hundreds of unregulated markets have sprung up in recent years to trade everything from fine art and commodities to insurance products
Written by China News Headlines: Finance, Business & Politics - FT.com on November 24th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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Parliament first, president next?
EVEN after a year of often startling change, the pace of events in Myanmar can still surprise. On November 18th, only a year after its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was released from a long stint of house arrest, the National League for Democracy (NLD) said that it would formally re-enter politics and compete in upcoming parliamentary by-elections. The opposition party had boycotted last year’s national elections, on the grounds that they were rigged in favour of the army junta and its proxies. The NLD was then disqualified as a political party.The NLD now says it is satisfied by various changes to the electoral laws—and the government appears satisfied to see the party unbanned. Ms Suu Kyi says that she herself will contest one of the seats up for grabs. She is wildly popular, and her participation would invest the parliament with much-needed legitimacy, though it will remain heavily dominated by parliamentarians chosen by the army.Thein Sein, president since March and the man chiefly responsible for initiating Myanmar’s thaw, got his reward at the annual bash in...
Written by The Economist: Asia on November 24th, 2011 with comments disabled.
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