Hong Kong: Protesters demand action on cheaper housing
By Celine Sung from South China Morning Post The Hong Kong government is facing mounting calls from political parties and residents to resume regular land auctions and Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flat construction to deal with surging housing prices.Among the voices were those of about 100 pan-democratic party members and ordinary...
Germany’s new cabinet: A gay foreign minister and a Vietnamese-born Health minister
Spiegel Online, 26 October 2009 Germany finally has a new government almost a month after Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the pro-business Free Democrats won a convincing election victory between them and embarked on sometimes fraught coalition negotiations. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian...
Asian Nations Push Ideas for Trade
By James Hookway from Wall Street Journal Japan and China laid out competing visions of how to create a European Union-style trade bloc in Asia at a regional summit here Sunday, with China pushing for stronger ties with its trading partners in Southeast Asia while Japan held open the door for the U.S. to play a role in a proposed...
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