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(27 June 2014)          Publisher says Chinese firms have turned down translation rights and major importer refuses to distribute English copies. Hillary Clinton's bestselling memoir Hard Choices has in effect been banned in China less than a month after its release, the publisher Simon & Schuster has said. The book,... 

(29 Jun) - An organization representing the world’s main central banks warned on Sunday that dangerous new asset bubbles were forming even before the global economy has finished recovering from the last round of financial excess. Investors, desperate to earn returns when official interest rates are at or near record lows,... 

Migrant workers in Singapore enjoying their day off. The city state relies heavily on a large population of temporary, low-paid workers. Photo: AP (29 June 2014)        Philip Bowring says Hong Kong should care little for a social economy propped up by dominant state enterprises and foreign companies, and an underclass...