China arrests Rio Tinto's Shanghai GM on bribery charges.Byline: ANI Melbourne, July 10 (ANI): The Chinese Government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith disclosed that Stern Hu is being detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: on suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets in China. Hu, who was detained on Sunday, will get access to Australian consular con·sul n. Abbr. Con. or Cons. 1. An official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country and represent his or her government's commercial interests and assist its citizens there. See Usage Note at council. officials on Friday, news.co.au quoted Smith, as saying. Smith said Hu was being accused of causing a huge loss to China's national economic security. "As understood from a Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. State Security Bureau, during China's iron ore negotiations with foreign miners in 2009, Stern Hu gathered and stole state secrets from China via illegal means including bribing internal staff of Chinese steel companies," Smith said, reading from the statement posted on a government website. "This has caused huge loss to China's national economic security and interests," he added. Meanwhile, the Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) says the detention of four Rio Tinto Ltd employees in Shanghai on spying charges is not related to its failed bid to invest 19.5 billion dollars in the resources giant. "Chinalco has been in contact with Rio Tinto expressing our mutual concern for the current situation with their staff," the Chinese state-owned company said in a statement. "We have also reasserted that the situation is in no way related to any commercial dealings between Rio and Chinalco," it added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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