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Romania lifts immunity for ex-minister in Microsoft probe
Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)
Romania's parliament on Monday voted to lift the immunity of a former minister targeted in a multi-million-euro corruption probe involving bribes and kickbacks ...
Virtual currency founder extradited to face US charges
Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)
The founder of virtual currency firm Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky, was extradited Friday from Spain to face US criminal charges for operating what officials...
China and Germany vow to deepen ties at Li-Merkel summit
Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)
China and Germany vowed to build up already massive business ties at their third summit this year in Berlin Friday, amid tougher times for Asia and Europe's big...
Egypt raises over 8 bln USD for new canal project
Oct 10, 2014 (XNA)
Egyptians' purchases of the New Suez Canal investment certificates on Monday hit 60 billion Egyptian pounds (about 8.4 billion U.S. dollars), an amount the auth...
Mobile wallet adoption years away: eMarketer
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
Industry tracker eMarketer on Thursday said that use of smartphones as wallets will jump in the US next year, but shoppers won't be quick to abandon cash or cre...
What Google's tax row with France says about income tax
Oct 08, 2014 (UPI)
Google is in a row with France about how much corporate taxes it pays. Like the Obama Administration's outrage about businesses moving headquarters abroad, this...
Lego lays building blocks for Asian dominance
Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)
Lego is making global domination look like child's play, as the world's biggest toy-maker puts the building blocks in place to lead rivals in Asia and buck an i...
Cyber-crime costing US billions: FBI chief
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
China is waging an aggressive cyber-war against the United States which costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
China a drag on steel demand: trade body
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
Global demand for steel will grow by just 2.0 percent this year owing to a rebalancing of the Chinese economy and a slowdown in other emerging countries, the se...
Social networks make push as shopping destinations
Oct 05, 2014 (AFP)
They're not just for sharing any more: Facebook and Twitter are now looking to play a bigger role in shopping. Both major social networks have unveiled plans to...
Chinese firm secures mining deal in nickel-rich New Caledonia
Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese group JinPei has signed a pact with a firm in nickel-rich New Caledonia to mine and process the ore after the world's top producer Indonesia imposed a b...
Mainland Chinese shoppers stay clear of Hong Kong
Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)
Sleek luxury store fronts plastered with political slogans and shops eerily empty of customers: the scenes in protest-gripped Hong Kong have left unsuspecting m...
Protesters press HK leader to quit, China tells US to back off
Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters demanded that the city's embattled leader meet a deadline to resign on Thursday, as China warned the United States against me...
Chinese PM to visit Germany for joint cabinet meet
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a joint cabinet meeting of the Asian and European export powers next week, Berlin said...
Alibaba and Wanda face off: online and offline
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
China's former richest man Wang Jianlin once bet Alibaba founder Jack Ma 100 million yuan ($16.3 million) that online purchases in the country would not eclipse...
A year on, foreign firms still await FTZ reform bonanza
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
China on Monday hailed the first anniversary of its first free-trade zone (FTZ), but foreign companies expressed disappointment over the pace of pledged reforms...
LME says will ramp up trading fees by 34%
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
LME says will ramp up trading fees by 34% London (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - The London Metal Exchange, the main global metals market, said Monday it will raise fees ...
Fashion made-in-China: fine for everyone but the Chinese
Sep 28, 2014 (AFP)
It has been called fashion's dirty little secret but according to Miuccia Prada, soon everybody will be doing it. Made-in-China's just fine with Prada's supremo...
China's CITIC wins interim injunction in Mineralogy dispute
Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese-owned CITIC has won an interim injunction temporarily halting a bid by Australian tycoon Clive Palmer's company Mineralogy to terminate its mining right...
Microsoft chief makes first China visit amid probe: report
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is visiting China for the first time since taking the post in February, state media said Friday, as authorities ...
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