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The Shanxi trilogy: films that never made it back home (The Japan Times)Sometimes called the most significant of the current generation of Chinese film directors, Jia Zhangke (b. 1970) enjoys the distinction of never having had some of his finest work commercially shown in his own country. This would include the so-called "Hometown Trilogy," here illuminatingly examined by Michael Berry in a new volume in the exemplary BFI Film Classics series. The three films ...

Shanxi considers establishing coke giant (Interfax)Shanghai. July 1. INTERFAX-CHINA - Shanxi Province, China's largest coal producing province, is considering creating a coke giant to improve the efficiency of the local industry, a local industry association official told Interfax on June 30.

Birth defects in China’s Shanxi show human price of coal mining (Gulf Times)Ten-year-old Yilong is already a statistic. Born at the centre of China’s coal industry, the boy is mentally handicapped and is unable to speak.

Just In (telecomasia.net)Microsoft will display results from Twitter on its new Bing search engine. Tata Comm has been contracted to install and operate telepresence rooms in 10 Starwood hotels, initially in Australia and North America.

China's energy consumption per unit GDP down in 2008 (People's Daily)China's energy consumption per unit GDP dropped by 4.59 percent in 2008, according to a notice jointly issued by China's National Bureau of Statistics, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and National Energy Administration on June 30. The energy consumption per unit of industrial added value dropped by 8.43 percent, and power consumption per unit GDP fell by 3.30 percent. Shanxi, ...

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Local banks to fund Chinalco's rights bid (China Daily)Chinese banks will fund Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) in the $15.2-billion rights issue of Australian mining firm Rio Tinto, media reports said.

New Chinese partners for $750 mln Mauritius project (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)By Jean Paul Arouff

Coal’s victims (The Star)Birth defects in China’s Shanxi province show the human price of coal.

Moutai, China Liquor Makers Gain After Fen Wine Raises Price (Bloomberg)June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Kweichow Moutai Co. , China’s biggest producer of spirits by market value, led gains by liquor makers in Shanghai and Shenzhen trading after Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory Co. raised its product price by 10 percent.