标题: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 16, 2018 (III) [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-19-2018 16:47 标题: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 16, 2018 (III) (4) Kit Chellel, Franz Wild and David Stringer, Iron Hand; How a mysterious hack and four arrests transformed a mining giant's relationship with China. (one of feature stories) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/f ... on-dollar-advantage
Note:
(a) The top photo shows a black and white photo of Stern Hu's head in profile.
(b) One should read this article, whose print and online version are the same.
(c) "Former Rio Tinto 力拓集团 executive Stern Hu 上海首席代表胡士泰 * * * Qingpu Prison near Shanghai 上海市青浦监狱 * * * sent to prison in 2010 for stealing trade secrets and taking bribes * * * [in prison] completed self-denunciation class , writing out long scripts apologizing for his actions. He was rewarded for this * * * and reputation for good behavior. Was to have his sentence reduced from 10 years to eight. On July 4 [this year], Hu, one of the most senior Western executives to see the inside of a Chinese prison, was set free. As Rio Tinto's chief representative in Shanghai, Hu had once helped the company ride China's economic miracle to record profits."
(d) "Formed in 1873 by London financiers seeking to buy the Rio Tinto copper mines from the Spanish government, the company [Rio Tinto] grew into an international conglomerate with operations in Africa and the US—an apex predator of mineral deposits, selling everything from diamonds to talc."
(i) Spanish-English dictionary:
* tinto (adj; from Latin verb tingō dye [which also gave rise to English noun tincture]): "dark red" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tinto
(ii) Rio Tinto (river) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_(river)
("Since ancient times, a site along the river has been mined for copper, silver, gold * * * its deep reddish hue is due to iron dissolved in the water")
(e) "In May 2007, Tom Albanese became Rio’s chief executive officer. A New Jersey native"