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NORRIE MAY-WELBY, who became the first person in the world to be classified as genderless after Australian officials altered May-Welby's birth certificate to read "neuter...
...Shanghai trial of four Rio Tinto executives charged with bribery and commercial espionage concluded on March 24. The Shanghai-based employees of the British-Australian mining company, who were arrested in July, confessed to accepting bribes from Chinese steel companies during negotiations over iron-ore prices. With a verdict expected within weeks, they face up to 15 years in prison. Though Rio Tinto will seek to continue to collaborate with Chinese companies, the high-profile case has shed light on the worsening environment for foreign corporations in China...
...Argosian princess Andromeda. Here, Perseus is raised by his loving adoptive father Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite), and thinks of himself as a fisherman, not a warrior; a working-class bloke, not a half-Olympian. He's the god-man as grunt, and Worthington - his accent wandering at whim from Australian to English to Iowan - plays Perseus as a wily proletarian, not far from the Jason Statham stud in Leterrier's 2006 movie Transformer 2. That's the way to play this character, since the movie is also about humans who have tired of being the gods' playthings and are ready...
...such luxury is afforded, for instance, to recent China visitor Tom Albanese, the American CEO of the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, for which China is now the largest market. On the same day that Google switched off its Chinese filters, four of Albanese's employees went on trial in Shanghai on corruption charges. If he still believed (as many in the foreign business community did when the four were arrested in 2009) that the trial was retribution for a soured deal with Chinalco, China's huge state-owned aluminum producer, he wasn't showing it. He wasn...
...interview that he advised the coup makers they would be successful in their putsch, and afterwards performed ceremonies with them in Bangkok to further increase their power. "In the last two successful coups in 1991 and 2006,'' says Craig Reynolds, a professor of Thai history at Australian National University, "the astrologer who advised the chief coup planner became the astrologer for the coup group once it had assumed power...