China has been a longtime supporter of the Venezuelan socialist government that has had an iron grip on the country for several decades. Beijing has lent billions of dollars to Venezuela over the past 10 years in an “oil-for-loan” program. With Venezuela in the grip of a revolution where the current socialist regime is facing huge ...
Fan Bingbing — China’s most famous actress — disappeared in July without a trace. What ensued was probably one of the biggest dramas Fan Bingbing has played in. Her social media fell silent and multiple theories about her disappearance emerged. Re-appearing 3 months later, she was fined around 880 million RMB (US$127 million), and delivered ...
Cobalt mining comes at a great cost to public health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. New research reveals that children are particularly vulnerable — their urine and blood samples contain high concentrations of cobalt and other metals. In past years, the demand for cobalt has been on the increase due to its many applications. ...
The release of the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers exposed how multinationals, politicians, and the wealthy use offshore tax havens to conceal their wealth and money flows, and reduce their exposure to tax. Now, a team of researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at Stockholm University and the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere (GEDB), Royal ...
Corruption in China and the Chinese communist bureaucracy— with its proliferation of greedy officials at all levels — is by far the worst in the world, according to Xiang Ming (a pseudonym), who published an article in the Hong Kong magazine Outpost in April 2018. The amount of dirty money involved is allegedly unbelievably huge. ...
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