Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | CHINAAUSTRALIAAFRICA Insider trading 5th October 2011 Australian financial authorities are investigating the trading activities of resource company executives in two lucrative takeover deals The latest attempt by a Chinese company to secure African mining assets from Australian companies has hit the skids over concerns about insider trading by Hanlong Mining. Sever...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | SOUTH AFRICACHINA Dalai Lama dumped again 5th October 2011 Beijing appears to call the shots in relations with South Africa. While the Dalai Lama awaited a visa to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday party on 7th October, So...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | ANGOLACHINASINGAPOREAFRICA China Sonangol is open for business 5th October 2011 Transparency has not been a major feature of China Sonangol’s and China International Fund’s activities in Africa, but one of the investment vehicles is now embarking on a huma...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | GHANACHINA The revolution will be financed 15th September 2011 President John Atta Mills plans to use Chinese credit lines to develop the country’s hydrocarbons infrastructure and build up an industrial base Opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of parliament were up in arms when the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) used its slim parliamentary majority to push throug...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | GUINEACHINA Betting on Boffa 15th September 2011 The government is negotiating the biggest-ever mining contract with a state-owned Chinese company, while another deal gets downsized President Alpha Condé’s new government has been investigating the capacity of one of China’s large state-owned construction companies during the last few months. A June trip to Chi...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | GUINEACHINA Pulling away CIF’s welcome mat 15th September 2011 Guinean President Alpha Condé has removed the most attractive clauses of China International Fund’s joint venture agreement with the former military junta of Captain Moussa Dadis C...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ETHIOPIACHINASOMALILAND To Berbera and beyond 15th September 2011 A Chinese company is backing infrastructure projects to develop secessionist Somaliland and give Ethiopia greater access to the sea Port and energy deals signed between a private Chinese company and the breakaway government of Somaliland should provide the region with the most important boost it has ever receiv...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ZIMBABWECHINA Vanishing truckers 15th September 2011 Key suspects in a fraud case linked to Grace Mugabe have disappeared, as have Buddhist monks behind a charity project on one of her properties Four truck drivers charged as accomplices in a trucking fraud case failed to appear in court in Harare on 25 August and warrants for their arrest were issued. The principal accused... READ FOR FREE
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | GABONCHINA Timber company cuts corners 15th September 2011 Smuggling is one of the biggest open secrets in Gabon’s forestry sector. Ever since the government began trying to mandate more local value-added processing of logs, the raw timber...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | NAMIBIACHINAJAPAN Harbour of resentment 15th September 2011 A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company...
