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FDI into China accelerates in March: govt
Apr 16, 2015 (AFP)
Foreign direct investment into China picked up in March, official figures showed Thursday, though outbound investment from the world's second-largest economy sl...
China March exports dive as economy seen slowing further
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
China suffered an across-the-board decline in trade in March, the government said Monday, days ahead of GDP data expected to show another slowdown in the world'...
'Civil war' divides families in row over Greek goldmine
Apr 12, 2015 (AFP)
Scrawled on the walls of homes in the village of Megali Panagia in northern Greece are angry slogans that show how much this picturesque community has been torn...
Hong Kong defends US dollar peg as stocks surge
Apr 10, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong's de facto central bank intervened in forex markets for the first time in eight months to protect its currency's peg to the US dollar as a massive sur...
World Bank welcomes China's new bank in poverty fight
Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)
China's new development bank can have an important role in fighting extreme poverty if it establishes high standards for its projects, World Bank President Jim ...
Chinese tycoon Liu snaps up ancient vase for $15 million
Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese tycoon Liu Yiqian splashed out nearly HK$114 million ($14.71 million) on an ancient vase at auction in Hong Kong Tuesday -- his latest expensive purchas...
When will Kazakhstan finally be allowed into the WTO?
Apr 01, 2015 (UPI)
On January 1, the World Trade Organization, responsible for 97 percent of world trade, celebrated its 20th anniversary. On its website the WTO defines its role ...
Hard money, soft standards? Tough questions for China's new bank
Apr 01, 2015 (AFP)
China scored a diplomatic coup by enticing almost 50 countries including key US allies to join its new development bank. But analysts say authoritarian Beijing ...
US ready to accept China-led infrastructure bank: Lew
Mar 31, 2015 (AFP)
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Tuesday that Washington was "ready to welcome" the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, backing off from tougher...
Taiwan to apply to join China-led infrastructure bank
Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)
Taiwan said Monday it would make a formal application to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, becoming the latest economy to express interest in the B...
Australia moves towards joining China-led bank: government
Mar 29, 2015 (AFP)
Australia said Sunday it will sign an agreement to become a prospective founding member of a China-backed infrastructure bank, but stressed that no one nation s...
Indonesia's Widodo supports China-led investment bank
Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Thursday that his country is firmly behind a new China-backed regional investment bank and sees it playing a stabilisin...
China denies seeking veto power in new bank
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
China has not sought veto power over a new multilateral bank, a top finance ministry official said Wednesday, after a report Beijing enticed major European coun...
Cheap eurozone takeaway fuels Chinese appetites
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
The inexorable decline of the single currency offers ambitious Chinese firms a bargain buffet of eurozone business, analysts say, with this weekend's multibilli...
China approves three more free-trade zones
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
China has given the go-ahead for three more free-trade zones, state media reported, despite the country's first project in Shanghai proving disappointing 18 mon...
EU slaps anti-dumping duties on China, Taiwan steel
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
The EU announced Wednesday it will impose anti-dumping duties for six months on some steel imports from China and Taiwan as a new trade row erupted between Brus...
'Made in China' tops EU list of unsafe products
Mar 23, 2015 (AFP)
From toy-shaped cigarette lighters to a short-circuting plush rabbit that catches fire, a European safety watchdog warned Monday of a growing number of dangerou...
Switzerland, Luxembourg plan to join China-led development bank
Mar 21, 2015 (AFP)
Switzerland and Luxembourg are planning to join the Beijing-backed development bank AIIB, China's finance ministry said, the latest European nations to sign up ...
France, Germany, Italy to join China-led infrastructure bank
Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)
France, Germany and Italy on Tuesday announced plans to join the Chinese-led development bank AIIB, drawing concern in Washington which views the institution wi...
Merkel urges closer tech ties with rising IT giant China
Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged closer high-tech cooperation with China as she opened a major IT business fair where the Asian giant is the offi...
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