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China Merchants sees no Ningbo Port IPO this year (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)HONG KONG, Sept 2 (Reuters) - China Merchants Holdings (International) Co Ltd <0144.HK>, the nation's largest port operator, said the listing of China Ningbo Port Group will not proceed this year due to weak market situation. Revealed: how Eurocrat leaked trade secrets over lavish dinners (Times Online)The elegant Comme Chez Soi is one of the great Brussels restaurants where businessmen on expense accounts mix with Eurocrats beneath its famous art nouveau glass ceilings. Riot police quell two separate large protests in China (AFP via Yahoo! News) China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock the communist nation. Protests in two Chinese cities (BBC News)The Chinese government reportedly sends thousands of soldiers and police to quell unrest in Hunan province. Investment scheme sparks clashes in Chinese city (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Discontent over a banned investment scheme erupted into two days of clashes between residents and security forces in a small city in southern China, according to reports on Friday. Riot police quell protests in China (Gulf Times)BEIJING: China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said yesterday, in the latest public discontent to rock the communist nation. Nokia Feels Market Share Pinch (Unstrung.com)Today's unexpected warning of a market share loss from the world's largest mobile phone vendor, Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK - message board ), is indicative of cutthroat price cutting in the device market as rivals try to keep selling high volumes of handsets in a downbeat economy. Police quell riots in east, south China (IANS via Yahoo! India News)Beijing, Sep 5 (DPA) Riot police have quelled two violent protests by thousands of people in southern and eastern China, in the latest of several recent clashes between ordinary residents and local authorities, officials and a rights group said Friday. Protest outside factory in east China (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)Rioters clashed with police at a garment factory in eastern China after protesting to find out why a teenager jumped from a fourth-floor window in the factory, a human rights group said Friday. Investment scheme sparks clashes in Chinese city (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Adds further report of unrest, paragraph 7) BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Discontent over a banned investment scheme erupted into two days of clashes between residents and security forces in a small ... |