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Author : Tian LiAn Australian business leader urged both Australia and China to reach a bilateral free trade agreement covering all sectors, and trade investment activity Frank Tudor, Chairman of the Australia China Business Council (ACBC), said in an exclusive interview that the free trade agreement must be comprehensive a (Read More)
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Author : Tian LiChina's entry into the World Trade Organization has had a far-reaching effect on the country's high technology sector With the government gradually ceding control of the technology sector to encourage market competition during the past decade, companies have discovered the real potential of Chinese consumer (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Image credit: Transition WhidbeyI posted on Friday about Worldchanging's critic of the Dark Side of Transition Towns, in which Alex Steffen argued that the Transition Town movement is effectively burying its head in the sand—promoting ineffectual, perhaps folksy [I paraphrase], individual action instead of systemic or polit (Read More)
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New York Times:
A piece of the stimulus program Congress passed earlier this year is helping the mayor burnish his credentials with the business community.
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International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate changeA row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the world's poor and help developing countries tackle climate change.No sooner had the prime minister floa (Read More)
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Study condemning UK energy strategy set to embarrass government as it prepares to unveil new climate change initiativeBritain's claim to be a world leader in green energy investment has been called into question by an authoritative new study that will embarrass ministers as they prepare to launch an important climate change (Read More)
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Nothing will harm climate change campaigners as much as a judge decreeing that the green movement is a faithFollowing Mr Justice Burton's ruling that green beliefs should enjoy the same protection as religious ones, many committed recyclers will have been wondering how green you have to be to become unsackable. Would buying (Read More)
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A brilliant exposé of the oil industry uncovers the shocking human cost of fuel, says Peter PrestonPlunder, Rot, Fear, Greed and Desire. Laconic chapter headings tell the story. This brilliant, dismaying book by a reporter who delivers fact, analysis and eloquent anger with equal aplomb is designed to make you shudder the n (Read More)
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They are strong and they last 1,000 years. So don't waste energy recycling them – give your old bag a new lease of lifeAs you might imagine, a planet on the brink of ecological collapse (ie ours) has a number of pressing concerns. The plastic bag issue really is not one of them, and yet in terms of air time and emotion it (Read More)
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David Cameron's concern over loss of sovereignty has led opponents to accuse him of endangering public safety by questioning the European arrest warrants that fast-track extradition requestsThe Tories are to consider pulling out of the EU's fast-track extradition scheme, which helped bring failed London bomber Hussain Osman (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Society:
Members of Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs to demand assurance of future independence from home secretary Alan JohnsonMore members of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs are set to resign unless they receive reassurances on its future independence from the home secretary, Alan Johnson.Johnson will m (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
It is ironic that when Will Hutton (Comment) points out that the private sector cannot do everything, it is now regarded as controversial, almost counterintuitive.The previous, postwar consensus centred on a mixed economy when the deficiencies of one sector were remedied by the other. But this did not survive the onslaught (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Society:
By punishing men buying sex instead of women coerced into selling it, the policing and crime bill will create a new consensusThere's been a quiet revolution in the House of Lords. Peers have been debating the policing and crime bill. Their deliberations mean that the government will take a historic step: instead of controll (Read More)
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Forthcoming book examines the role of humans in the eradication of species, and its findings are not likely to be pleasantAt first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million dollars for a book about dead animals – or, to be more precise, extinct animals.Nevertheless the su (Read More)
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The steep rise in insurance costs since 2007 has left homeowners unable to get cover or move houseFlood victims continue to face spiralling costs for home insurance as excesses for flood cover rise to levels that are making their properties virtually impossible to sell.Many have invested thousands to protect their homes fro (Read More)
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