What we’ve been reading recently:
SCMP.com: Mainland forays hit protectionist wall in Australia – Australian government said to have forced 10 Chinese companies to withdraw applications to buy into domestic mining operations | australia china investment mining protectionism resources
FinanceAsia.com: China High Speed re-opens renminbi CB market – "A strong equity story and a share swap to facilitate hedging of the equity option allow the wind power company to achieve a zero coupon and a 30% conversion premium." | Cleantech china wind
China Business News: TD-SCDMA Chip-Maker COMMIT Ceases Operations – "An insider at TD-SCDMA chip maker Commit has revealed that CEO Yu Yushu held an emergency employees’ meeting yesterday afternoon at which all staff were asked to resign within four days, with the firm to cease operations at the end of April." | 3G TD-SCMA china telecom
Economic Observer: State Power: Billions Needed to Rebuild – "Two months after snowstorms ravaged southern China, officials have said that 22% of the total direct economic damage – 40 billion yuan ? was done to China’s power infrastructure."
| china electricity
National Geographic Magazine – Current NatGeo is a China issue; Hessler, Leslie Chang, Amy Tan and more. h/t The China Beat | china journalism
National Geographic Magazine: Gilded Age, Gilded Cage – Leslie Chang, former WSJ reporter (and also married to Peter Hessler) with a piece on China’s new middle class | china middleclass
Xinhua: Coal price increases as supply tightens – "Prices for coal exports and imports rose in the first two months of 2008 … Customs said yesterday that China exported 8.75 million metric tons of coal for US$630 million, up 13.5 percent and 39.7 percent, respectively, year-on-year." | china coal energy
Xinhua: China, EU start up high-level economic, trade dialogue – "CHINESE Premier Wen Jiabao and the European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today announced the establishment of the Sino-EU high-level economic and trade dialogue" -joins the US-China Strategic Economic Dialog on the diplomatic calendar | EU china
Mallesons Stephen Jaques: China strengthens its regulation on wealth management products – Analysis of new measures introduced by the CBRC to tighten regulations on wealth management products by law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques | banks business china funds wealthmanagement
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