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A report in the New York Post Wednesday appears to confirm reporting by Breitbart News last October that then-Vice President Joe Biden met his son Hunter’s business associates from Kazakhstan at Café Milano in Washington, DC, despite earlier denials. In August 2019, on the campaign trail in South Carolina, Biden told reporters: “I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period.” The new Post report casts further doubt on that claim. In October 2020, Breitbart News revealed a photograph showing Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden with...

China Axes Foreign Companies' Tax Break, by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong Last updated 3 hours ago | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 The Chinese ministry of finance has announced that foreign companies’ current tax exemptions on the 1985 urban maintenance and construction tax and the 1986 education surcharge will be removed as of December 1, 2010 under a Notice issued by the State Council. The Ministry of Finance announcement said that the differentiated tax system had played an important role in reforming and opening up the economy by attracting foreign investment and introducing foreign technology but now a unified tax...

Vladimir Putin makes Robert Maxwell look small-fry Patrick Hosking: Business commentary One of the curious trends of recent years has been the Western business community’s enduring love affair with the unlovely Russia. With every passing week, it becomes clearer that this is a country run by and for people little different from gangsters. The tanks rolling into Georgia have reminded us that they are gangsters with keys to a big arsenal. The largest Western companies, Shell and BP included, have been bullied, intimidated and forced into concessions by the Kremlin and its cronies. This week a Moscow court joined in...