Lunch with Financial Times: Lee Hsien Loong
(11 April) Singapore’s PM talks about Japanese aggression, Ukraine’s revolution and why nanny states are not all bad As the Singaporean prime minister settles into his seat for lunch, I am fussing with my tape machines – two of them, just in case one fails. Lee Hsien Loong smiles faintly and says: “The NSA will give...
Tap water in China found to contain excessive benzene
Lanzhou residents rush to supermarkets to buy bottled water after local tap water was found to contain high levels of benzene on Friday. (Photo: SCMP) (12 April) Residents strip supermarket shelves of bottled supplies after city government warns that contamination was 20 times safety level. Panicking residents in the northwestern...
Desperate for credit, China importers default on soy cargoes
A worker carries a sack of soybeans at a food wholesale market in Shenyang, Liaoning province January 13, 2011. (Photo: Sheng Li / Reuters) (10 Apr) - Chinese importers have defaulted on at least 500,000 tons of U.S. and Brazilian soybean cargoes worth around $300 million, the biggest in a decade, as buyers struggle to get credit...
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