Mure Dickie

                   

China's consumers are flexing their muscles in Microsoft fight

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By Kathrin Hille and Mure Dickie in Beijing When Microsoft rolled out its latest anti-piracy initiative this year, it was not aimed at any particular country. Windows Genuine Advantage, a tool that identifies users of...

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Beijing sets out rationale for aircraft carrier

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By Mure Dickie and Martin Dickson in Beijing The world should not be surprised if China builds an aircraft carrier, but Beijing would use such a vessel only for offshore defence, a senior official of the Chinese ministry of...

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Beijing warns US over Taiwan arms

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Beijing's defence ministry has insisted full military-to- military exchanges with the US cannot resume unless Washington scraps plans to sell more than $6bn of weapons to Taiwan and stops contacts with the island's armed...

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China opens to financial news media

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China opens to financial news media By Kathrin Hille and Mure Dickie in Beijing China has opened its market to financial information providers, ending an attempt to give the official Xinhua news agency tight control over its...

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Beijing opens to financial news providers

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14-Nov-2008
        

By Kathrin Hille and Mure Dickie in Beijing China has opened its market to financial information providers, ending an attempt to give the official Xinhua news agency tight control over its foreign competitors and resolving a...

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UK company accuses China customer of kidnapping for $350,000 ransom

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08-Nov-2008
        

By Mure Dickie in Beijing, The Financial Times, October 31 2008- A British scrap-metals company has accused Chinese customers of kidnapping its chief trader for a $350,000 (£212,000) ransom in a case highlighting the challenges...

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China U-turn on online money-making

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China U-turn on online money-making By Mure Dickie in Beijing Less than two years after “strictly forbidding” players of online computer games from making money from trade in virtual currencies, China has announced a 20 per...

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Web guidelines aim at repressive governments

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29-Oct-2008
        

By Mure Dickie in Beijing and Richard Waters in Los Angeles have signed up to a set of voluntary guidelines that are designed to reduce the risk that their actions lead to human rights abuses in China and other countries. The...

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