In Burma, official media are weighing-in on a story that rarely gets covered in the government press: crime. The story involves a clash between soldiers and civilians that left two men dead. The incident reportedly had witnesses and comes at a sensitive time ahead of the country's first election in two decades.  

And now the Burmese government is accusing foreign media of distorting the incident to encourage public unrest.

Its mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper, has described the shooting as a "drunken brawl."  It reports the two men were shot and killed last week when young soldiers opened fire on a group of youths following a traffic accident in the city of Bago. The story explicitly states the incident was not a fight between the military and the public. ...Read more

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That is basically what the chicoms had to say about this incident in Boai Bay in China. This oil rig “Tipped Over”, that is the official line from the chicoms who said excessive winds caused the structure to tip over. Ummm, shouldnt these things be built to withstand excessive winds? ...Read more

Susan McGinnis anchors this afternoon's Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC. On the program: - BP is taking some responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in an internal report released today. - BOEM Director Michael Bromwich says lat week's oil platform fire in the Gulf won't affect an upcoming decision on the deepwater moratorium. - China is idling steel mills and factories and blacking out neighborhoods to meet its ambitious energy and climate goals. - Students and environmental activists are traveling from Maine to Washington with a solar panel from the Jimmy Carter White House in an effort to persuade President Obama to again use solar power at the White House.

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Zijin Mining’s environmental disasters have overshadowed the firm’s meteoric rise. Li Taige wonders when polluting companies – and the officials who protect them – will realise the value of proper supervision.

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The horrors of China's Great Leap Forward are unveiled in this masterly study of the hateful plan

Frank Dikötter has written a masterly book that should be read not just by anybody interested in modern Chinese history but also by anybody concerned with the way in which a simple idea propagated by an autocratic national leader can lead a country to disaster, in this case to a degree that beggars the imagination. ...Read more

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The devastating mudslide in Zhouqu last month was far from a one-off, write Lu Zongshu and Tang Jing. Millions in China are threatened by geological disaster – and they need protection.

On August 7, a huge mudslide struck Zhouqu, in Gansu, western China. By August 16, more than 1,200 people had been declared dead and 490 were still missing. According to Xinhua news agency, this was the worst landslide in Zhouqu since records began, and possibly the worst in China for 60 years. ...Read more

Turns out that Bin Laden disappeared like the Oil Spill, but the effects of the socialism that came after is destroying America. The America we knew before 9/11 was attacked by the people that changed it to global socialist after 9/11. Bin Laden did not have WMDs in Iraq. Bin Laden did not decide to rebuild Iraq with US taxpayer money and brave American troops lives for a decade or more, Bin Laden did not rebuild two foreign Muslim nations and give giant free money checks to the rest, Bin Laden did not rewrite the constitution and create the unconstitutional DHS security state. Bin Laden made gas go to $4.00 a gallon? ...Read more

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Far from the Gulf of Mexico, environmental campaigners are accusing energy companies of destroying land and livelihoods in the search for increasingly scarce resources. Richard Wachman and Jon Stibbs report.

The eyes of the world are on BP after the April disaster that left massive amounts of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. But campaigners accuse Big Oil of an appalling track record elsewhere in the world, saying it leaves a trail of devastation in its wake. ...Read more

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Risk.  Everyone in China is exposed to it.  Some recognize it, and act on it, better than others

This was the topic of several conversations between myself and Neal Beatty (Regional Director, Global Client Services for Control Risks).  In some ways it was a followup to the interview I did of Dane Chamorro, his colleague, but this time it was over lunch and encompassed a much larger set of issues…. and given the importance nature of risk, I asked Neal if he would do All Roads readers the favor of answering a few questions about risk in China, if risks here are different than in other regions, and how good firms are at planning for and managing risk. ...Read more

Eleven people and six corporations have been indicted in a conspiracy to smuggle Chinese honey into the United States, including honey contaminated with antibiotics that are not approved for use in this country, federal officials said Wednesday.

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