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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 4 months ago
China's Chinalco on Friday said the detention of four Rio Tinto staff accused of spying in Shanghai was not linked to the collapse of a huge deal between the companies. Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto last month walked away from a 19.5 billion US...
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News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 4 months ago
The simmering diplomatic spat between Australia and China over the detention of mining company employees in Shanghai is unlikely to have significant fallout for the Australian dollar, analysts say. While not eliminating the chance that Australia's...
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News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 4 months ago
China has accused Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu of bribing staff from Chinese steel companies during iron ore negotiations this year, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says. Mr Hu, the Shanghai-based general manager of Rio Tinto's Chinese iron...
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News Source: China News
| 4 months ago
Sufficient evidence exists that employees of a multinational mining group committed acts of espionage and stole State secrets, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman. Stern Hu, a general manager for the Chinese operation at Rio Tinto's iron ore...
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News Source: China News
| 4 months ago
But Rudd, a China expert facing criticism at home for not intervening in the affair on behalf of the company and the one Australian citizen involved, said he would make whatever representations were necessary. "As with all complex consular cases, we...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 4 months ago
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has not ruled out personally intervening in the case of a Rio Tinto executive detained on spying charges in China. Australian citizen Stern Hu and three colleagues have been detained since Sunday on suspicion of stealing...
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News Source: The independent
| 4 months ago
Outlook China must be careful as the fall-out from the collapse of the deal between Rio Tinto and Chinalco continues to rain down, not least on those still trying to negotiate on a market price for iron ore. We do not yet have the facts about the...
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News Source: Times Online
| 4 months ago
China’s accusation that four Rio Tinto employees stole state secrets has spread fear among the expatriate business community and threatens to chill Australia’s relations with its largest trading partner. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
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News Source: Times of India
| 4 months ago
Chinese authorities have arrested four employees at the Shanghai office of Australian mining giant, Rio Tinto on charges of spying and selling the country’s national secrets to a foreign country. They include Stern Hu, an Australian citizen of...
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News Source: The Age
| 4 months ago
Opposition to be hairy-chested about how the strange case of Stern Hu should be handled. And it is tempting when you are the Government to defend a softly softly approach on the grounds that this is the best way to achieve the desired end of helping...