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Australia at crossroads as China boom ends: PM

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday said the China resources boom was over, leaving the economy at a crossroads, as he called for a new productivity p...

US, China see progress on investment treaty

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

The United States and China said Thursday they had moved forward on a treaty that would ramp up investment but the two countries clashed over hacking and the ca...

Nepal police seize smuggled gold bound for India

Jul 10, 2013 (AFP)

Nepal police seized 35 kilograms (77 pounds) of gold on Wednesday, smuggled over the border from China and bound for India, where demand for the precious metal ...

Mongolia's massive Oyu Tolgoi mine begins copper shipments

Jul 09, 2013 (UPI)

Mining giant Rio Tinto's $6.2 billion copper and gold Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia has started to ship copper concentrate to customers, the company said. The ...

Resource boom helps Latin America improve credit ratings

Jul 09, 2013 (UPI)

Increase in earnings from commodities and other natural resources helped Latin American countries improve their credit ratings during the first half of this yea...

Brazil blames Argentina for delaying EU trade accord

Jul 08, 2013 (UPI)

Brazilian agribusiness leaders are blaming Argentine government policies for delays in concluding a free trade deal with the European Union -- an accusation has...

Chinese insurer Ping An buys Lloyd's building in London

Jul 08, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese insurance giant Ping An has made a big foray into London's City financial district by buying the Lloyd's building for 260 million ($387 million, 302 mil...

Group wants all ocean-goinWg vessels tracked to close security loophole

Jul 08, 2013 (UPI)

All vessels in international waters should be identifiable by a global tracking system to close a "security loophole" on the high seas, a British group says. Th...

China, Switzerland sign free trade agreement

Jul 06, 2013 (AFP)

China and Switzerland on Saturday signed a free trade agreement (FTA) -- Beijing's first in continental Europe -- in a deal that comes against a backdrop of tra...

SLeone, China sign $8 billion in infrastructure deals

Jul 05, 2013 (AFP)

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Koroma said on Friday that he had signed deals for a new international airport, a railway and raft of other huge construction pr...

Pakistan PM talks business on China visit

Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif started his first foreign visit since his May election in China Thursday looking to secure infrastructure projects to tackl...

Israeli inventor says chemical scanner will change the way we shop

Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)

Want to know what strange chemicals are in your Subway sub roll? Soon, consumers won't necessarily need to rely on investigative journalists or public safety ad...

Peru gold mine protesters want project scrapped

Jul 02, 2013 (UPI)

Protests against a $5 billion gold mining project that's set to drain three lakes in northern Peru's Cajamarca region are mounting amid warnings of a repeat of ...

Canal could make Nicaragua richest CentrAm country, official says

Jun 30, 2013 (AFP)

A proposed waterway to rival the Panama Canal could make Nicaragua the richest country in Central America, a project official was quoted as saying Sunday. Presi...

Bilateral trade with China could reach $200 billion, Russian minister says

Jun 30, 2013 (UPI)

Trade between Russia and China should reach the $200 billion mark before the end of the decade, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Monday. Rogozi...

Obama hits out at unfair deals with Africa

Jun 29, 2013 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama urged Africans on Saturday to ask more questions about lop-sided deals with some foreign investors, while dismissing talk of a Chinese...

Australia to turn up the heat on boat people

Jun 28, 2013 (UPI)

Australia's courts and tribunals won't have as much discretion when it comes to deciding if asylum seekers are genuine refugees, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said....

US factory boss freed in China: union official

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

An American factory boss held hostage for nearly a week over a labour dispute that has highlighted employer-worker tensions in the country has been freed, a uni...

China slaps anti-dumping tax on EU chemical

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

China announced Thursday it would impose anti-dumping tariffs on a chemical imported from the European Union, the latest twist in a series of bitter trade dispu...

Taiwan's Hon Hai set to spin off units

Jun 26, 2013 (AFP)

Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision said Wednesday it plans to spin off some units as its founder unveiled measures to battle global sluggishness and falling share price...