ARTICLES BY CHARLES HUTZLER
End to Japan nuke crisis is years, a fortune away
TOKYO - Once Japan's leaky nuclear complex stops spewing radiation and its reactors cool down, making the site safe and removing the ruined equipment is going to be a messy ordeal that could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
China says it will tackle inflation, boost incomes
BEIJING - China's government called Saturday for higher social spending, controls on inflation and measures to urgently close a divisive rich-poor gap, betting that rising living standards, better services and heavy policing will dampen growing public expectations for change.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Chinese court sentences U.S. geologist
BEIJING - An American geologist held by Chinese state security agents who stubbed lit cigarettes on his arms was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on China's oil industry - a case that highlights the government's use of vague secrets laws to restrict business information.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
