Extra! Extra! A golf club the size of Hong Kong Island ... and other news

China has a moratorium on building golf courses, so how are we now getting 22 of them that take up an area 1.5 times the size of Manhattan on Hainan Island? Shanghaiist founding editor Dan Washburn takes an in-depth look at Mission Hills Hainan. [Financial Times Weekend Magazine]
Selling missile technology to Iran has apparently not stopped China from having American companies as business partners, despite the U.S.'s sanctions. To their credit, it seems most of these American companies don't realize their illegal conduct thanks to overly complex sanction rules. [WSJ]
China’s manufacturing grew at the fastest pace in more than five years in December and may accelerate to 9.4% this year from an estimated 8.5% in 2009. [BusinessWeek]
ESWN has translated a Southern Metropolis Daily article on Deng Yujiao. While she may no longer be arrested or convicted of murder, her troubles are far from over and if we were good people, we'd just learn to leave Deng Yujiao alone. [ESWN]
A large diesel oil spill in Shaanxi Province, China has heavily polluted a tributary of the Yellow River. The leak was allegedly caused by construction work on China National Petroleum Corp. pipelines. [New York Times]
China plans on spending $300 billion in the next decade to build the world's most extensive and advanced high-speed rail network. We're excited for that Beijing to Shanghai line to finally be completed (and an alleged Shanghai to Hong Kong one too)! [NPR]

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