Embargo

US lawmakers seek details on Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba trip

7 Apr 2013

Two US Republican lawmakers want to know if popular American pop star Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, had the US government’s permission to travel to Cuba despite an economic embargo.

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Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland middlemen help Iran obtain banned components

20 Nov 2012

When Susan Yip stood before a US federal judge in San Antonio last month, she apologised tearfully for her role in smuggling American technology to Iran.

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Channel hop

6 May 2012

In Cuba, a research biologist gets paid US$25 a month. To do a simple scientific expedition, marine researchers have to get permission from 15 government departments, including the military. And...

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New approach to old values

21 Dec 2004

Premier Wen Jiabao, addressing the China-Europe Summit in The Hague on December 9, said: 'Countries with different systems can peacefully co-exist. China and Europe protect a variety of...

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Arms embargo a 'sign of inequality'

4 Dec 2004

Beijing says EU ban will affect ties but denies holding up Airbus order in retaliation

Beijing said yesterday it wanted to be treated as an equal by Europe as it again urged the EU to...

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Keeping Clinton's Life under wraps

18 Jun 2004

US publishing giant Random House has been less than an open book over the Hong Kong release of Bill Clinton: My Life, CitySeen spies say.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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MPs and cadres remember British trade pioneer Perry

A MEMORIAL service has been held for the man who pioneered British trade with China's fledgling communist state and defied an embargo imposed by Washington for more than 20 years.

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Embargo should go, now

THERE will never be a better time than now for President Bill Clinton to lift the 19-year old embargo on trade with Vietnam. The Senate has voted 62 to 38 in favour of doing so. American business...

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Vietnam embargo left almost intact

US President Bill Clinton has taken the smallest of steps towards ending the cold war with Vietnam, but bowed to pressure from the missing-in-action (MIA) servicemen lobby to keep the 18-year-old...

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Hanoi must yield to change

THE visit to Vietnam by French President Francois Mitterrand once again brings into the spotlight the issue of whether the United States should or should not lift the economic embargo against...

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Vietnam could satisfy Bush's taste for history

WITH only a week and a half of George Bush's presidency remaining, speculation is growing that he will at least partially lift the embargo on trade with Vietnam.

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