TRADE WARS - SINO DAILY

Record eurozone trade surplus, analysts divided on outlook

Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)

New EU data out on Friday showed the eurozone logging a record trade surplus and bumper cash earnings in what some analysts said was evidence that austerity and...

Football: Maradona in $3.2 million China legal action

Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)

Argentine football great Diego Maradona attended a Beijing court hearing Friday which was considering his $3.2 million image rights claim against two Chinese In...

Foreign investment in China declines in July

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Foreign direct investment in China fell 8.7 percent in July, the government said Thursday, as the economy continues to feel the pinch of slowing global growth a...

Gold demand down to 2-year low: industry report

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Global demand for gold has fallen to its lowest level in two years owing to less buying in the main markets of India and China, despite rising demand from centr...

Paraguay plays down suspension by Unasur

Aug 16, 2012 (UPI)

Paraguayan President Federico Franco played down the landlocked country's continued diplomatic isolation since he took office after the Union of South American ...

Asia eyes Brazil's growing consumer market

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

With Europe and the United States in the economic doldrums, Asian manufacturers are setting their sights on Brazil's lucrative consumer market ahead of the 2014...

China, Canada bilateral investment booms, trade lags: study

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese foreign investment in Canada has boomed over the last decade but trade lags, according to a study by both governments that was realased on Wednesday and...

Italy steel mill appeals order to stop production

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

Europe's biggest steel mill launched an appeal on Tuesday against a judge's order to halt production while a clean-up operation of polluting chemicals at the IL...

China approves Wal-Mart control of online supermarket

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

China said Tuesday it has approved a plan by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to gain control of a local online supermarket, but imposed conditions on the deal over concern...

Coldwell Banker teams up with BOC to entice rich Chinese

Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)

Coldwell Banker France said Monday it had teamed up with Bank of China to meet the growing appetite of rich Chinese for upmarket French property. "France now re...

Japan growth slows as exports struggle

Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)

Growth in export-driven Japan slowed in the three months to June, official data showed Monday, with the debt crisis in Europe and the unsteady global economy cr...

Italian PM to dispatch ministers to disputed steel mill

Aug 12, 2012 (AFP)

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will send three ministers to Taranto, southern Italy, to try and prevent a shutdown of Europe's biggest steel mill, Italian m...

China says exports, imports slow in July

Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)

China's exports and imports slowed for the second consecutive month in July, official data showed Friday, highlighting worsening conditions in the world's secon...

Outside View: Of horses and narco-kingdoms

Aug 10, 2012 (UPI)

Following a 2-year investigation, U.S. prosecutors have submitted a mindboggling 30,000 pages of documentation and 2,000 recorded phone calls that paint an exte...

Zambia reassures China after mine boss killing

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

The killing of a Chinese mine boss last weekend has left Zambian President Michael Sata's government rushing to reassure foreign investors on their safety, whil...

Taiwan, China to sign investment pact amid protests

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan will sign a key investment pact with China in top-level talks in Taipei on Thursday amid protests from anti-Beijing critics against closer economic ties ...

Taiwan, China sign investment pact amid protests

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

China and Taiwan signed a landmark investment pact on Thursday as hundreds of protesters voiced their anger over the island's ever-closer economic ties with its...

Malaysian exports sustained by China, Japan demand

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

Malaysia's June export growth slowed to 5.4 percent but rising demand from regional heavyweights China and Japan helped offset shrinking shipments to struggling...

Brazil military combats crime on four frontiers

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

Brazil is engaged in a vast military operation to crack down on smuggling on its borders with Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, slated to run until late...

Italian steel giant ordered to upgrade but plant kept open

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

An Italian court Tuesday ordered the country's biggest steel plant to clean up its act but did not call for closure despite fears that chemicals spewed by the u...