Topic: China
Four detained employees of mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. including an Australian national will stand trial in China on charges of stealing commercial secrets, a state news agency said Wednesday. The Rio employees were detained in July during iron ore price talks with China ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rose above $74 a barrel on Wednesday, bouncing from earlier losses, as the euro extended gains against the dollar on hopes for a bailout for Greece. U.S. crude futures rose 46 cents to $74.21 a barrel by 1123 GMT (6:23 a.m. EST), having fallen to as low as $73.18 earlier. ICE Brent ...
A 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday, his mother said. A court in southern China's boomtown city of Shenzhen found Xue Mingkai guilty of subversion of state ...
