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What DreamWorks did not showcase, however, was one of its newest — and most important — Chinese partners: Jiang Mianheng, the 61-year-old son of Jiang Zemin, the former Communist Party leader and the most powerful political kingmaker of China’s last two decades. The younger Mr. Jiang’s coups have included ventures with Microsoft and Nokia and [...]
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) entered China in 1996 and has billions of sales there. But how did it crack China? One big answer is a 65%-Wal-Mart-owned joint venture with a company run by the son of a former Chinese vice president who was tossed in 2009 out by Beijing after investigations into a multi-billion foreign exchange trading scandal. Wal-Mart [...]
BEIJING — “Beijing power struggle heralds end of China Communist Party,” screams one headline. More sensational headlines purport to reveal how the wife of recently sacked Politburo member Bo Xilai poisoned an Englishman, who may have been her lover. And if that weren’t enough, other stories claim that “Bo planned airline crash” and “slept with [...]
On Friday, Wu’er plans to turn himself in to officials at the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C., for a chance to return home. Wu’er, who has lived in exile for 23 years, hopes to copy legal activist Chen Guangcheng‘s dramatic and much-publicized journey “in a reverse way.” Chen fled house arrest in China last month, [...]
Facebook Facebook has a proven track record of dominating new markets, and it may still prove able to conquer China’s crowded social-networking space if it ever opens up in the country. But as investors pop the champagne bottles Friday, it’s worth taking a moment before the toasts to consider what the Chinese market can teach [...]
The Russian “re-set button” that was grandly announced by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton in 2009 was a unilateral gesture — and thus it’s no surprise the Bear is still smiling. Now with President Putin’s unprecedented third term as Russia’s president underway and his decision to skip the G-8 Summit in Camp David [...]
Fri May 18, 2012 6:22am EDT * Values FESCO at more than Thursday’s closing price * Summa lobbying power may unlock Transcontainer deal (Adds analyst comment) By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) – Russian investment and trading group Summa has agreed with businessman Sergei Generalov to buy control of transport group FESCO for around [...]
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Russia, which wants guarantees it isn’t targeted by a U.S.-led missile shield, is demanding an accord ratified by lawmakers of the world’s two biggest nuclear powers, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said. An agreement providing the guarantees must be drafted by military experts, he said in a May 16 interview at his office in central [...]
Russia’s Micex (INDEXCF) Index headed for the biggest weekly drop this year as Europe’s debt crisis deepened and crude oil, the country’s main export earner, retreated on worse-than-expected U.S. economic data. The 30-stock Micex was little changed at 1,288.02 by 3:06 p.m. in Moscow, poised for a 6.9 percent loss in the week, the most [...]
Iraqi Airways is waiting for the delivery of 40 Boeing aircraft. Above, Boeing 737 fuselage sections on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in the US. Daniel Acker / Bloomberg News Hadeel al Sayegh Iraq’s national carrier is planning to re-emerge as a major regional airline, with the first of 40 Boeing aircraft set to [...]
ISTANBUL, Turkey -The prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region is visiting Turkey – his first trip there since taking office in March. The visit is expected to build on the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Iraq’s Kurds. That process is being enhanced by deepening crises in Iraq and and mutual neighbor Syria. Political analysts [...]
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said. The bombings took place at a market where young men buy and sell pigeons in Husseiniya, a poor Shiite neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad. This type of [...]
Fri May 18, 2012 9:21am EDT * Southern exports slip to 1.94 mbpd so far in May * Production reduced by technical problem, now fixed * Iraq still hoping to sustain April’s record export rate By Alex Lawler and Peg Mackey LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) – Iraq’s oil exports from its southern ports have slipped [...]
By Jonathon Burch ANKARA | Fri May 18, 2012 10:56am EDT ANKARA (Reuters) – A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey’s role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi “Shi’ite axis” it fears in the wake of the U.S. military withdrawal from [...]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that he is eager to attend the Olympic Games in London to support Iranian athletes but that Britain doesn’t want to host him. OLYMPICS NEWS Beckham stars as flame reaches UK Iran prez: British don’t want me at games IOC: No special tribute to slain Israelis US picks water polo [...]
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Fri May 18, 2012 7:40am EDT * Cleric: Union is “ill-fated plot” Muslims won’t tolerate * Iran-Gulf Arab tensions on the rise DUBAI May 18 (Reuters) – Thousands of Iranians rallied on Friday against plans for union between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, state television showed, and an influential cleric denounced the idea as an “ill-fated [...]
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By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA | Fri May 18, 2012 12:54pm EDT VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are making headway towards a framework deal on how to tackle concerns about its atomic activity, diplomats say, a potential bargaining chip for Tehran in next week’s negotiations with world powers. Iran says such an [...]
Friday May 18, 2012 18:21 by IMEMC News – IMEMC Audio Dept Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 10 m 06s || 9.25 MB || Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 12 to 18th 2012 Palestinian prisoners end their [...]
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad replaced almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet on Wednesday, a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split are stuck. A unity deal reached in February was to have ended five years of separate Palestinian governments, one run by Fayyad in the West [...]
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza opened fire Friday afternoon on IDF soldiers operating in Israeli territory near the border fence, in the Nahal Oz area. There were no reports of injury among the soldiers, who returned fire. On Thursday the Ma’an news agency reported that seven Palestinians were injured from IDF artillery fire towards farmers [...]
The South African academic community should break out of its “silent and inert”, albeit sympathetic, posture toward the Palestinians and fully reject cooperation with Israeli institutions. “I wish you empowerment to resist; to fight for social and economic justice; to win your real freedom and equal rights.” These are the stirring words of Omar Barghouti [...]
By Samia Nakhoul JERUSALEM | Fri May 18, 2012 9:44am EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Surrounded by aides, including one whose only task seems to be light his cigarettes, Mahmoud Abbas sits in a vast presidential office and speaks of his ambition to create a Palestinian state. But outside his sprawling compound on the hills of [...]
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Burhan Ghalioun, head of the opposition Syrian National Council, speaks during a news conference with Italy’s foreign minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata at the end of their meeting in Rome on May 13, 2012 (Alessandro Bianchi/Courtesy Reuters). Share
Editor’s note: Each month, Inside the Middle East takes you behind the headlines to see a different side of this diverse region. (CNN) — Lara Zankoul and Lara Atallah are both young Lebanese photographers taking their first steps in promising artistic careers. Their work, however, could hardly be more different. While Atallah focuses on the [...]
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Fri May 18, 2012 11:50am EDT * Top-40 index down 1.3 pct to 29,212.42 * All-share down 1.2 pct to 33,148.39 * More selling ahead -fund manager JOHANNESBURG, May 18 (Reuters) – South African stocks fell 1.3 percent on Friday, booking their worst weekly performance in six months, as investors continued to hit shares of [...]
South Africa’s economic growth in the first quarter will probably be slower than forecast after weak mining and manufacturing production, and retail sales data, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said. “Output growth in the first quarter of this year was slower than we forecast at budget time,” Gordhan told lawmakers in Cape Town today. This was [...]
By DONNA BRYSON, Associated Press – 1 hour ago BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi’s laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution. Banda, who assumed the presidency in April when her predecessor died, made [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — FBI Special Agent Harold Haberfeld’s ill-fated mission to North Africa during World War II was so secret that even now, 69 years after the plane crash that kept him from completing it, his home bureau in Buffalo isn’t entirely sure what his role was. As Buffalo agents dedicated a memorial in Haberfeld’s [...]
By JULIE PACE, Associated Press – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a “moral imperative” to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world. Obama announced $3 billion in private sector pledges to help boost agriculture and [...]
BEIJING – Chinese authorities on Friday blocked prominent human rights lawyers from representing the nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, assigning him two government-appointed lawyers instead, the rights attorneys said. Chen Kegui, 32, is accused of attempted homicide in a clash he had with local officials in Shandong province who stormed his house looking for [...]
Chinese leaders, the report asserted, view this as a time to “focus on internal development while avoiding direct confrontation,” although they expect tension, competition, and territorial flare-ups from time to time, and they do not expect the status quo, however satisfactory they find it, to last indefinitely. The United States, decades ahead technologically, spends much [...]
At his peak, Mr. Lai drove a bulletproof Mercedes, distributed wads of cash to the poor and had in his thrall hundreds of officials in Xiamen, the special economic zone in Fujian, the coastal province where he made his fortune. The scandal brought down scores of those officials, led to the unexplained prison deaths of [...]
China says the US is “deliberately provoking trade friction in the clean energy sector.” The US says Chinese exporters were dumping cut-price solar panels in the US market. By Matt Daily and Leonora Walet, Reuters / May 18, 2012 Chinese workers examine solar panels at a manufacturer of photovoltaic products in Huaibei, China. China rejected a [...]
BY BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—China’s Internet users stepped up pressure on Beijing to release more information about fishermen who were apparently kidnapped by North Koreans last week in the latest sign of rising public concern over the fate of China’s citizens beyond its shores. Their whereabouts and well-being remained unclear Friday after China’s Foreign Ministry again [...]
Washington, May 18 — India’s Aadhar Bhalinge has won “m2Work”, a World Bank-sponsored online challenge seeking the best ideas for spurring the job-creation potential of mobile phones. Bhalinge convinced the high-level jury of World Bank, Nokia, UKaid, and other private sector representatives of the development impact, novelty, and feasibility of his “Smart Rickshaw Network” to [...]
May 18, 2012 13:48 PM World Bank Expert Warns Latin America Of Middle Income Trap SANTIAGO DE CHILE, May 18 (BERNAMA-NNN- MERCOPRESS) — In what would be his last speech as part of the organisation, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Justin Lin held a conference at the UN’s Economic Commission [...]
New Delhi: An expert team from World Bank, which reviewed the progress of Railways’ eastern dedicated freight corridor, has appreciated the efforts shown by the DFC management for the people affected by the multi-crore project. A 17-member World Bank’s implementation mission reviewed the progress of the 1,839 km-long Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in a [...]
Outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday that he’s worried about the eurozone. WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — Outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday he’s concerned about the “ripple effects” on the rest of the eurozone if Greece leaves. “The core question will actually not be Greece, it’s Spain and Italy,” Zoellick said during [...]
May 18–WASHINGTON — Progress in trade logistics performance slowed down over the last two years amid the global recession, but countries that pursued aggressive reforms continued to improve their performance, according to the World Bank’s latest survey on trade logistics. Singapore is the top performer among the 155 economies included in the Logistics Performance Indicators, [...]
Following is the text of the mission statement from the International Monetary Fund visit to Cameroon: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Mario de Zamaróczy, visited Cameroon during May 2-16, 2011 to conduct the 2012 Article IV Consultation. The mission met with Prime Minister Philémon Yang, Minister Secretary General at the Presidency Ferdinand [...]
5/18/2012 10:15 AM ET (RTTNews) – Economic activity in the Czech Republic is likely to remain flat this year after the post-crisis recovery stalled in the second half of 2011 due to a slowdown in exports, the International Monetary Fund said Friday. The Czech economy is forecast to expand just 0.1 percent this year, after [...]
Mbabane — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has withdrawn its advisory team from Swaziland, saying it is unable to support the government’s proposed financial reform programme. The IMF was assisting the government in implementing the Fiscal Adjustment Roadmap (FAR), to right-size the budget, where government spending currently exceeds its revenue. “Government has yet to propose [...]
By Veronika Gulyas DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)–A wave of bank sales is unlikely in the central and eastern Europe, or CEE, the International Monetary Fund’s senior resident representative for the region told Dow Jones in an interview Friday. The region has been heavily affected by deleveraging, a process in which banks adjust their [...]
An International Monetary Fund official on Wednesday said the eurozone’s third-largest economy is “on the right track” and has made notable progress in the six months since Premier Mario Monti took over. An IMF review of Italy found its reform measures have meant the country is financially more secure and the program of reform should [...]
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