(December 6, 2007) After the Olympics, how will Beijing’s insatiable thirst for water be satisfied? asks Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing in this week’s New York Review of Books.
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China’s bond market under new management
(December 6, 2007) Yangtze Power was not the first Chinese company to issue debt in the domestic market, but the US$540 million it raised through the sale of 10-year bonds — which started trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on October 12 — marked the dawn of what could be a dynamic new age for corporate bonds, Newsweek reports.
Thirsty dragon at the Olympics
(December 6, 2007) After the Olympics, how will Beijing’s insatiable thirst for water be satisfied? asks Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing in this week’s New York Review of Books.
Landslide death toll rises to 34
(December 3, 2007) The death toll in the landslide in central China’s Hubei Province last month has risen to at least 34, after searchers pulled out one more body from the debris early on Monday. The landslide caused an avalanche of about 3,000 cubic meters of rubble that buried a nearby construction site and a bus travelling on State Highway 318, Xinhua reported.
Odious debts and nation building: When the incubus departs
(December 1, 2007) Few events in the life of a society are as heady as the ouster of a long-standing dictatorial or corrupt regime. In the euphoria that typically follows this kind of nation building, the new government will want to expunge all vestiges of the old regime – personnel, laws, decrees and offensive policies.
Beijing: Chinese suffering a new water torture
(December 1, 2007) Beijing’s dead waterways will be brought back to life—temporarily—in time for the Olympic Games, reports The Age. Officials will pump 3 billion cubic metres of water into the city from four dams in neighbouring Hebei province to replenish the water in the city’s dirty canal system.
Beijing: Chinese suffering a new water torture
(December 1, 2007) Beijing’s dead waterways will be brought back to life—temporarily—in time for the Olympic Games, reports The Age. Officials will pump 3 billion cubic metres of water into the city from four dams in neighbouring Hebei province to replenish the water in the city’s dirty canal system.
Deep concern over Three Gorges dam
(November 30, 2007) Chinese writer Dai Qing responds to the Chinese government’s campaign to downplay the environmental effects of the Three Gorges dam. “If they’re saying that the landslides have nothing to do with the reservoir than they are telling lies,” she told the BBC.
World bankruptcy
(November 28, 2007) When the World Bank staff staged a coup against then-President Paul Wolfowitz earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal editorials argued that one motivation was to stop his anti-corruption fight. Now The WSJ describes “another backroom putsch,” this time against Suzanne Rich Folsom, the head of the bank’s anticorruption unit (INT, or department of institutional integrity).
Equitable subordination, fraudulent transfer, and sovereign debt
(November 27, 2007) There is a growing body of scholarship that attempts to identify workable mechanisms to enable sovereigns to repudiate ‘odious’ sovereign debt – obligations incurred by sovereign regimes that provide no corresponding benefit to the sovereign debtor itself.
Canada’s PM right to take tough stance on China
(November 27, 2007) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s outspoken criticism of China’s human-rights record will not hurt Canadian business opportunities, say Canada’s business leaders; a new survey finds big business supports Harper’s stance and believes it will produce benefits in the long-run.
Residents fear China’s Three Gorges dam
(November 27, 2007) Residents in the Three Gorges dam reservoir area fear an increased risk of harm to the environment as a result of the dam’s impacts. One of the biggest concerns currently is that the reservoir’s seasonal water fluctuations have unsettled the delicate geology of the area and that this may escalate the risk of landslides and other dangers.
Equitable subordination, fraudulent transfer, and sovereign debt
(November 27, 2007) There is a growing body of scholarship that attempts to identify workable mechanisms to enable sovereigns to repudiate ‘odious’ sovereign debt – obligations incurred by sovereign regimes that provide no corresponding benefit to the sovereign debtor itself.
Norwegian environmental group urges Statkraft to stop hydro expansion in Laos
(November 27, 2007) A major expansion of a Nordic-built hydropower dam in communist Laos will cause serious flooding, ruin fisheries, and displace thousands of people living downstream, a Norwegian environmental group said this
week, Reuters reported.
SINOHYDRO Inks Mekong Hydro Deal with EGAT
(November 26, 2007) China’s Sinohydro Corporation signed an agreement to sell electricity to Thailand’s Electricity Generating Authority (EGAT) from future hydro dams on Nam Ou, a large Mekong tributary in Laos.
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