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Latest News From The Daily Star

• Shanghai gets Sylhet power job

  The cabinet purchase committee yesterday approved a Tk 704 crore bid for setting up a 150-megawatt combined cycle power plant in Sylhet by China's Shanghai Electric Company (SEC).

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• Obama presses freedoms in China

  US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms, seeking to get around China's media curbs with a webcast town hall event in booming Shanghai.

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Latest News From Around The World

• The Observer

  Rio raises efforts to build bridges with China as its employees go on trial

  Four staff from mining company face court tomorrow charged with bribery and stealing industrial secrets

  Four Rio Tinto will go on trial in Shanghai tomorrow accused of bribery and stealing industrial secrets, even as the m

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• The Age

  Albanese stays at hand in China to rebuild ties

  Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese given a chilly reception by China's state security apparatus when he slipped into Shanghai after the arrest of his China iron ore sales chief Stern Hu.

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• The Age

  Stern justice

  With the Stern Hu trial set to begin today in Shanghai, John Garnaut explores the harsh realities of prison in China.

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• The Guardian

  Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore

  Nothing empowers women more than a good education and career, but since cinema began they have been unable to resist copying the fashions that give models and Hollywood stars allure

  Growing up in 1950s Britain we learned t

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• The Money Times

  Rio Tinto employees' trial opens Monday

  A part of the trial against four employees of the global miner Rio Tinto will open in Shanghai courtroom Monday.

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  The four executives of the multinational mining and resource group were detained last summer following allegatio

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