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Commodity price falls a $160 billion bonus for China
Jan 13, 2016 (AFP)
Slumping prices saved China more than $160 billion on its imports of commodities such as oil, iron ore, coal and copper last year, official figures showed on We...
EU opens debate on China market status
Jan 12, 2016 (AFP)
The EU said it will on Wednesday launch a year of delicate deliberations to decide whether China should be considered a market economy, a long-denied status tha...
ADB to work with China-backed AIIB: Nakao
Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)
The US-backed Asian Development Bank will cooperate with a major new Chinese-led multilateral lending institution and they plan to co-finance projects this year...
China tries 10 employees of US firm in fast food scandal
Dec 31, 2015 (AFP)
Ten employees of a US company which supplied foreign fast food outlets in China including KFC and McDonald's have been tried over a substandard meat scandal, a ...
China to merge two shipping companies in reform push
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
China will combine two of its state-owned shipping giants, the companies said, the sector's second multi-billion-dollar merger in a month as the government push...
Taiwan, China launch hotline after historic summit
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
The first hotline between China and Taiwan was launched Wednesday, in a move designed to build ties between the two sides following a historic summit between th...
Philippines to join China-backed Asian infrastructure bank
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
The Philippines said Wednesday it will join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite being engaged in a dispute with Beijing over its clai...
China fines seven foreign shippers for 'price-fixing'
Dec 28, 2015 (AFP)
China on Monday fined seven foreign shippers including three Japanese firms a combined 407 million yuan ($63 million) for price-fixing in the latest case involv...
Global miners steel for worse after torrid year
Dec 27, 2015 (AFP)
Global miners are battling to stay afloat after enduring one of the toughest years in recent times, with tumbling commodity prices and supply gluts set to force...
Hong Kong apartment sells for record $76.7 mn
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
A luxury apartment in Hong Kong sold for a record HK$594.7 million ($76.7 million), days before Christmas, making it the most expensive flat in the city and pos...
AIIB formally established: government
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), viewed by some as a rival to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, was formally established o...
Police probe China metals exchange: govt
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese police are investigating a troubled state-managed metal exchange for criminal offences, the local government said late Tuesday, months after it failed t...
Malaysian bauxite rush brings wealth, and worries
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
Malaysian farmer Surin Beris's palm plantation has been razed and bulldozers are tearing into its red soil, releasing potentially hazardous dust into the enviro...
Zimbabwe to expand use of yuan as China cancels $40 mn debt
Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)
Zimbabwe said Monday that China plans to cancel $40 million in debts as the southern African country seeks to expand use of the yuan in its multi-currency econo...
Bitcoin's 'blockchain' tech may transform banking
Dec 19, 2015 (AFP)
The technology that drives the shadowy cryptocurrency bitcoin is drawing interest from the established banking industry, which sees a potential to revolutionize...
Cook bashes talk Apple is dodging taxes
Dec 18, 2015 (AFP)
Apple chief Tim Cook emphatically rejected accusations that the world's richest company is sidestepping US taxes by keeping bundles of cash overseas, suggesting...
Chinese pull plug on French tech park: French official
Dec 16, 2015 (AFP)
Franco-Chinese plans to set up a business and technology park on a 130-hectare site in eastern France, have bitten the dust three years after they were first mo...
Mongolia's giant Oyu Tolgoi mine gets $4 bn financing
Dec 15, 2015 (AFP)
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto secured a multi-billion deal Tuesday to finance a huge expansion of its giant but controversial Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongo...
China joins European development bank
Dec 14, 2015 (AFP)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said Monday it had accepted China as a member, handing the world's second biggest economy investment routes...
China approves merger of two top shipping firms: Xinhua
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
China will merge two of its biggest state-owned shipping companies, official media reported Friday, as the government seeks to reform lumbering public companies...
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