Follow the Money Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 By: Gerry O’Kane One simply cannot ignore the Burma/China debate over the Myitsone hydropower plant project, which the Burmese president Thein Sein cancelled unexpectedly earlier this month. The story has the cynics guffawing in the aisles. On the one hand you have a Chinese state administration spluttering...
September 28, 2011 By: Gerry O’Kane International charity and pressure group Oxfam has released a report highlighting the problems that a modern “land rush” is bringing to poor communities. Fingers have been pointed at palm oil corporations and agribusinesses as being primarily responsible for many of the land deals that have left local communities...
CleanBiz Asia, Sunday, June 19th, 2011 It has only taken a week for a Chinese enterprise and government body to breach the new Sino-US agreement to stop subsidies to China’s wind power firms. The China Ming Yang Wind Power Group has announced that it has entered into a “strategic framework co-operation agreement” with the...
