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China, India tourists triple Australian visits

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

Australia's strong dollar has done little to dampen its popularity with Chinese and Indian visitors, with tourist numbers from those countries tripling in the p...

Google wins Australian sponsored links case

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

Internet titan Google was cleared Wednesday of allegations it hosted deceptive advertisements, with Australia's highest court saying it was not responsible for ...

Trade secrets theft linked to ex-employees: study

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

A big source of theft of corporate data and trade secrets is former employees of the company, a research report said Wednesday. The survey by the security firm ...

Chinese make record foreign investments in 2012: PwC

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

Foreign mergers and acquisitions by Chinese investors set a record last year, while domestic purchases marked a pause, a study released on Wednesday by the acco...

Global ecommerce sales topped $1 tn in 2012: study

Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)

Global Internet retail sales topped $1 trillion for the first time in 2012 with the United States holding the top spot but China rising fast, a market research ...

Panama Canal expansion work seen to be at risk after row

Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)

Work on a multibillion expansion of Panama Canal is at risk from a dispute pitting the building consortium against Panama authorities over the sharing of $1.6 b...

Japan bookings to China still falling amid island row

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Bookings on Japanese package tours to China for February and March are down around 80 percent, tourism industry data showed Monday, as a months-old territorial ...

Walker's World: New currency wars

Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)

Ten years ago this week, one British pound bought 1.6 euros. Today it buys 1.15 euros, which means British exports are dramatically cheaper and Britain's import...

Anglo American Platinum plunges into deep loss

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Strike-scarred AngloAmerican Platinum reported Monday that it lurched into huge losses revealing deep damage from a tough 2012 and warned it has to absolutely t...

Phosphorus used in Myanmar protest raid: lawyers

Feb 01, 2013 (AFP)

An independent investigation into a crackdown on a copper mine protest in Myanmar that left dozens injured has found that phosphorus was used by security forces...

China steel industry says profits plunge

Feb 01, 2013 (AFP)

The combined profits of China's major steelmakers crashed by more than 98 percent in 2012 as growth in the economy of the world's largest steel producer slowed,...

EU 'better than North America' for China firms: survey

Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese firms consider the European Union as good or better an investment destination than North America, the EU chamber of commerce in China said Thursday, des...

Brazil's slow growth bad for sport events

Jan 31, 2013 (UPI)

Brazil's economic downturn is worrying planners that it will impact on preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Olympics in 2016. Fewer jobs were create...

China mining firm falls on Hong Kong trading debut

Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)

China's Chinalco Mining Corporation fell more than 11 percent on its Hong Kong trading debut Thursday after raising $397 million in the city's first major initi...

Pakistan approves port transfer to China

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

Pakistan on Wednesday approved a deal transferring from Singapore to China the management of the strategically located deep-sea Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea. ...

China's looming worker shortage threatens economy

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

China's demographic timebomb is ticking much louder with the first fall in its labour pool for decades, analysts say, highlighting the risk that the country gro...

Despite optimism, tough road for immigration reform

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

Hope over prospects for immigration reform, a bipartisan glow unheard of in polarized Washington, has for now suppressed political wildcards that could yet blun...

Japan PM suggests summit with China

Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday suggested a summit with China would improve a relationship that has been badly troubled for months. The latest sign...

Increasing problems for Tavan Tolgoi mine

Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)

Mongolia's massive state-owned coal mine, the Tavan Tolgoi, is facing increasing problems. Last week, Erdenes-Tavan Tolgoi, the state-owned mining company that ...

World tourist numbers exceed 1.0 billion in 2012: UN

Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)

International tourist arrivals exceeded one billion for the first time last year despite ongoing global economic uncertainty and numbers will rise further in 20...