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BEIJING - THE Chinese government has sacked two officials and suspended relocation work after up to 1,000 people protested in a wealthy eastern province last week, angry at compensation for land seizures, state media said. The protests lasted for four days in part of Suzhou, a manufacturing hub close to Shanghai in the eastern... 

An ‘optimum’ population', in dictionary terms, is the ‘best or most favourable’ population. But a dictionary cannot tell the whole story. Best for what purpose, and best according to which criteria? For OPT, a green think tank, an optimum population means, at its simplest, a population size which is environmentally sustainable... 

Singaporean bank DBS Group Holdings on Wednesday offered US$84 million in compensation to Hong Kong clients who bought investment products linked to Lehman Brothers, the U.S. investment bank whose collapse two years ago helped trigger the global financial crisis. The settlement covers 2,160 DBS clients in the southern Chinese...