Subscribe to RSSSoaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers
Yang and many other young Chinese are finding their aspirations thwarted by an overheated property market that is enriching already wealthy speculators, local officials...
China insider sees revolution brewing
JOHN GARNAUT Sydney Morning Herald Feb 28, 2010 BEIJING: China’s top expert on social unrest has warned that hardline security policies are taking the country...
China orders retreat from risky assets (dollar reserves limited to T-bills or Freddie Mac)
A Communist Party directive leaked to the Chinese-language edition of the Asia Times said dollar reserves should be limited to US Treasuries or agency mortgage debt...
Moldova on Automatic Pilot After the Presidential Election Fails Again
On December 7 Moldova failed in its fifth attempt this year to elect a head of state in parliament. The Communist Party, which governed from 2001 to September 2009...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the Front Page of French Newspaper Le Monde
Right on the heels of an important feature published in the New York Times Magazine, the largest daily newspaper of France, Le Monde, has made the Khodorkovsky trial...
Too many idle hands on Cuba’s state farms: Report
HAVANA – One of the major ills of Cuba’s state-run agricultural enterprises is “the excess of non-productive personnel”, Communist Party...
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