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China's Expanding Middle Class Fuels Poaching, Decadence in Myanmar
"The price of poaching in Southeast Asia is unbelievable. It's becoming vacuumed out," says Chris Shepherd, Southeast Asia regional director of Targeted traffic, a group that monitors the worldwide trade in plants and wild animals. For the duration of the past couple of decades …
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China's corruption crackdown requires toll on Macau's U.S.-owned casinos
McClatchy was unable to obtain comment from Sands, the initial U.S. company to open a Macau casino and now the world's largest gaming corporation. But at a trade show in Las Vegas in October, the 81-year-old Adelson said he wasn't worried about Macau's …
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China October trade information shows indicators of manipulation, hot money inflows: state …
"The possibility of hot income inflows can not be excluded as Chinese mainland's trade with the ASEAN nations, South Korea and Hong Kong grew rapidly in October, collectively with a jump in exports of valuable metals," it stated. On Saturday, China said its …
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