FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,” the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But now 90, the prime minister’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, not only left poverty behind — she became outright rich, at least on paper, according to corporate and regulatory records. Just one investment in her name, in a large Chinese financial services company, had a value of $120 million five years ago, the records show.
ASIAWATCH — As part of an occasional series AsiaWATCH is publishing links to the more controversial articles of late and the sometimes terse response they elicited. AsiaWATCH won kudos for this piece on the Eurozone […]
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Al-Qaeda central appears to have joined the Islamic State in calling for jihad against China over its alleged occupation of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Read more from Zachary Keck in The […]
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Almost immediately after this year’s ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) began in Bali, with the hotly contested Spratly Islands firmly on the agenda, members agreed to agree on what they had agreed […]
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