Monday's deluge — Venice's biggest in 22 years — may help wash away remaining resistance to an elaborate project to build mobile barriers that will prevent future flooding here.
Protect China's assets, US told
Kathy Wang and agencies Chinese officials urged the United States to further stabilize its economy and protect the mainland's US dollar-based investments as the two sides opened cabinet-level economic talks in Beijing for first time following the global
China offering pieces of Bird's Nest for $3,265
Beijing has started selling souvenir sets of left-over grass and steel from the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium for 2,900 yuan (HK$3,265) each. The packs include grass cut on the night of the Games' closing ceremony, preserved in a clear box, and model
East Asia and a vulnerable rising power
For long, the tendency of policy-planners in several East Asian countries was to gloss over the frequent terrorist strikes in India The death of at least five East Asians at the hands of terrorists has caused unease across the region Official India, in
Is China About to Break Out?
It was only ten days ago that I thought I would be provocative with an early call on China in Since that time, what looked like a possible cessation in downside momentum has turned decidedly more bullish, with the FXI rising an additional 10%. The chart
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