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China Regulators Approve Acquisition of Australian Coal Company

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The multi-billion-dollar deal is the largest approved for a Chinese firm to buy an Australia raw material provider, according to the Shanghai Daily News. In 2004, Yanzhou acquired Southland coal mine in Australia (renamed as “Austar Coal Mine”), marking the first successful acquisition of an overseas coal mine by a Chinese coal enterprise.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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His cooking — he was the chef de cuisine under Grant Achatz at Alinea — is meticulous and often surprising. The menu reads like roll call at the United Nations: soups from Indonesia, chickpea tagines, French omelets and a bucatini dish by way of Greece, pairing brown butter with feta and cinnamon.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Henn Tan, as told to the Straits Times Many of these electronics products, including the chips in them, were produced in Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand—and Singapore—under the OEM system.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Climate change projections authored by Chinese scientists indicate that China’s annual mean air temperature is likely to rise by 1.3 Chinese and Indian climate negotiators have already been seen conducting intense negotiations in Copenhagen in recent weeks. ºC in 2020, and 2.3 ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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And so at the time, my colleague Oona Hathaway and I and Joan Feigenbaum from the computer science department, who’s a very famous mathematical cryptographer, we applied to the Hewlett Foundation to get a grant to teach an interdisciplinary course on I think it was called The Law and Technology of Cyber Conflict. He used to teach at Yale.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy. On 24 February 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana. Earlier post.)