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...which is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Trading in its shares was halted Sept. 30 at the request of the company and it later came to light that Yang had raised money by selling nearly 82 million shares last month for a few cents each, dropping his stake to 49%. Lee Jong-suk, a China watcher at Sejong Institute, a Seoul think tank, says Beijing may have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project...
...roots as a British brewer, splitting its pubs from its hotels group. Shareholders will get $1.1 billion cash back, plus stock in the new companies. A Whole Lot Of Nothing NTT DoCoMo will write down its foreign investments by $4.7 billion, including $878 million in KPN, valuing its 15% stake in the Dutch mobile company at zero. spanish gales Spain's second-largest power utility, Iberdrola, agreed to pay €1 billion over four years for the wind farms owned by Gamesa. INDICATORS Pensions Without Borders Pan-European pensions moved closer to reality as the European Court of Justice ruled...
...military regime, whose raison d'etre is either the bogey of war with India or the dream of absorbing Kashmir into Pakistan. If the threat is proved unreal, and the dream a mirage, Pakistan's rulers will have lost their justification for a permanent coup. There is more at stake in Kashmir than Kashmir...
...suggesting not only that Israel should retaliate in the event of an Iraqi attack, but that the United States should fully support retaliation. The authors point to the bombing of the Osirak reactor over 20 years ago to support this argument, but this misses the essential issue at stake: whereas 20 years ago Iraq had no nuclear capability, today we are at least expected to believe that they may. Certainly, Israel now has nuclear weapons. And let us not delude ourselves into thinking that if Israel is attacked, particularly by weapons of mass destruction, that it will retaliate conventionally...
...that medical marijuana patients can be prosecuted by the federal government in California even though by state law they are committing no crime. This ruling was somewhat ironic; it seems that the Supreme Court is concerned with safeguarding states’ rights only when when conservative values are at stake...