Round up of the daily news for 09/08/2010

A roundup of last week’s business and economic news.

Can the DPRK be forced onto the path of social and economic reform? And what are the prospects for the future in the Korean peninsula?

China signs a compassionate and historic trade deal with Taiwan after sixty years of dispute.

China’s relentless search for resource is in effect “raping” Africa, a Zambian economist alleges.

The Iranian government must be laughing. Murder its own citizens, protesting for wanting the most fundamental human rights, and they get a few slaps on the wrists from the international community. ‘Don’t do that again’. …

The recent spate of violent attacks against schools in China betrays a deeper set of social and political problems stemming from rapid economic growth and government repression.

‘Whilst ecological issues are becoming a more integral part of the political landscape both, at home and abroad the idea that a party could use environmental policies as the fundamental basis for a set of practically applicable policies is at best wishful thinking and at worst, dangerously illogical.’

There are no credible reasons for maintaining a so-called nuclear ‘deterrent’, so why do we have Trident at all?

(c) Pingu1963
Yesterday saw the UK crawl it’s way further out of the economic mire, with a 0.2% rise in GDP, a disappointing figure to round off a quarter in which economists had hoped for a …

What can we expect from tonight’s Leaders’ Debate? Who needs to win? Who can’t afford to lose? What tactics are likely to be in play?

(c) Brokev03          
A lot has happened in the small central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan over the last fortnight, yet for a few obligatory news items the riots and unrest have not fixated the western media in …