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Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

Drugs and guns gave way to manufactured goods and migrant workers Tuesday on Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto's tour of North American capitals. U.S. ...

Norquist ready for immigration reform

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

Another major conservative voiced support for U.S. immigration reform this week but this one has been calling for it for a while, albeit not as loudly as he has...

Italy, China sign deals worth $1.27 bn

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

Italian and Chinese firms signed deals worth $1.27 billion (984 million euros) on Wednesday in Rome at talks attended by Prime Minister Mario Monti and senior C...

Myanmar protesters ordered to end mine demo

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds of villagers, students and monks on Wednesday defied a government order to end a protest at a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northern Myan...

Myanmar copper mine protesters charged: police

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

Myanmar has charged a group of activists who protested against a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine with defaming the state, police said Tuesday. The eigh...

Anger at Chinese businesswoman's foreign passport

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

A prominent Chinese businesswoman has come under fire after she was exposed as having a foreign passport, highlighting resentment towards the rising number of w...

Smuggling surges in China: state media

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

Customs officials in China are grappling with an increase in smuggling, particularly banned items such as drugs, weapons and endangered animals, state media rep...

Samsung finds unfair practices among China suppliers

Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung Electronics said Monday that a probe of its suppliers in China had found no evidence of alleged child labour, but did uncover some "inadequate" employme...

GE says 'Industrial Internet' could be worth trillions

Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)

Connecting industrial operations to the Internet could lead to significant gains in productivity, potentially worth $10 trillion to $15 trillion globally, a stu...

India, China firms sign deals despite political tensions

Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)

Indian and Chinese companies signed agreements on Monday worth billions of dollars as the two emerging market giants sought to broaden commercial ties despite p...

Strong interest for Chinese insurer PICC's IPO

Nov 23, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese insurer PICC has attracted strong interest from investors for its $3.6 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong next month a day after it began taki...

Fitch cuts ratings on Panasonic, Sony to junk

Nov 22, 2012 (AFP)

Japan's embattled electronics sector suffered another blow on Thursday as ratings agency Fitch downgraded industry titans Sony and Panasonic to junk status for ...

Protest strikes disrupt Argentine cities

Nov 21, 2012 (UPI)

Argentine cities faced disruptions as the second mass protest in a month challenged President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government. Most road communicati...

Japan posts worst October trade data in three decades

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Japan on Wednesday posted its worst October trade figures in over 30 years, underscoring persistent weakness in the world's third-largest economy amid the globa...

Hundreds protest against Myanmar copper mine

Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds of Myanmar villagers, students and monks have joined protests at a Chinese co-owned copper mine which they allege has forced people off their land and ...

Asian rivals pursue trade pact amid maritime rows

Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)

China, Japan and South Korea will set aside bitter maritime territorial rows and launch talks on Tuesday for a free-trade agreement, diplomats said. The trade m...

HP seeks fraud probe on acquired firm after writeoff

Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)

Hewlett-Packard called Tuesday for a probe into "willful" financial misstatements by Autonomy, a British software firm it bought for over $10 billion, which HP ...

China 'optimistic' about FTA talks with Japan, S. Korea

Nov 18, 2012 (AFP)

China, Japan, and South Korea are expected to agree on the launch of three-way free trade talks at a summit in the Cambodian capital this week, Beijing's foreig...

French minister hails EU duties on Chinese ceramics

Nov 16, 2012 (AFP)

French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg hailed on Friday temporary European Union (EU) measures against Chinese ceramic imports, using a visit to t...

Foreign experts praise Customs Union

Nov 15, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Experts of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have called the Customs Union of 3 former Soviet states "a successful example of economical inte...