TRADE WARS - SINO DAILY

China's Wen to meet EU amid debt crisis, trade row

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets Europe's leaders Thursday as the world's second-biggest economy falters in the eurozone debt crisis downdraft and the two sides...

Taiwan boosts airport amid China tourism boom

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan, which is seeing a boom in tourism from China, will spend Tw$463 billion ($15.4 billion) on a new terminal and other facilities at its main airport, the ...

Deadly South Africa miners' strike ends

Sep 19, 2012 (UPI)

A wage deal involving striking miners in South Africa is expected to end a shutdown of the country's gold and platinum fields, a work action in which 45 people ...

Outside View: Get tough with China

Sep 18, 2012 (UPI)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is right: The United States must get tough with China to restore growth and good-paying jobs. The idea behind free trade a...

Deals and ordeals for Chinese tech giant Huawei

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is perplexed at its treatment in the West, with the United States fearful it is a Trojan horse for cyber warfare even as Europe eag...

Japan Inc. padlocks China factories amid violence

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

Some of Japan's biggest corporate names padlocked factories in China Tuesday as violent anti-Japan protests sparked safety fears, and threatened economic ties w...

Mercosur muddle over Paraguay deepening

Sep 18, 2012 (UPI)

Mercosur divisions are growing as landlocked Paraguay accuses fellow founder members Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay of undermining its small resource-dependent e...

Australia cuts mining forecasts on China drop

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

Australia's resources agency slashed its mining export forecasts Tuesday as China's slowdown hits commodity prices, with earnings set to fall for the first time...

Philippines predicts $15 bln from call centres by 2016

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines expects to boost its revenues from call centres to nearly $15 billion by 2016, sustaining its three-year lead over rival India, industry leaders...

US, China trade battle heats up at WTO

Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)

US-China trade tensions heated up Monday as the US lodged a complaint over Beijing's automotive subsidies with the WTO and China countered with a filing over US...

Seeking political gain, Obama fires new trade shot at China

Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)

President Barack Obama fired a new trade shot at China Monday, wooing blue collar workers and outmaneuvering his Republican foe Mitt Romney as Beijing took a po...

Argentine import tariffs hitting exports

Sep 14, 2012 (UPI)

Argentina's increasingly tougher import tariff regime is beginning to hit the country's export potential as manufacturers find they cannot meet production targe...

People smugglers get rich, Canberra reacts

Sep 14, 2012 (UPI)

The kingpins of Asia's people smuggling racket have made millions of dollars smuggling everyone from farmers to terrorists, a report by the New Straits Times sa...

Australian FM hits back at critics of China investment

Sep 14, 2012 (AFP)

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr Friday hit out at critics of Chinese investment in the country, urging resistance to "nationalistic sloganeering" on the is...

Hundreds protest against Myanmar mine

Sep 12, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds of Myanmar villagers protesting a Chinese co-owned copper mine vowed to continue their fight against the project despite arrests of demonstrators and o...

China aims to boost exports as economy slows

Sep 12, 2012 (AFP)

China said Wednesday it has approved a package of measures aimed at boosting exports, as the world's second largest economy grapples with a slowdown. The State ...

Burberry value rocked by profit warning amid China slowdown

Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)

Shares in luxury clothing and accessories group Burberry tumbled by almost 21 percent Tuesday after the British firm issued a surprise profits warning which ana...

Outside View: Trade deficit rises

Sep 11, 2012 (UPI)

The U.S. Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the U.S. deficit on international trade in goods and services was $42.0 billion in July, up slightly from $41...

US pleased with APEC 'green' products list

Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)

The United States welcomed Friday a deal to cut tariffs on dozens of "green" products in the Asia-Pacific, saying it would boost the region's economies as well ...

Chinese company to study Nicaragua canal feasibility

Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)

A Chinese company will conduct a study about the possibility of building a canal that would link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Nicaraguan territory, P...