TRADE WARS - SINO DAILY

Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged at landmark talks in Warsaw on Wednesday to double bilateral trade turnover with Poland in the next five years. During a hist...

China and Sweden ink trade deals during Wen visit

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

China and Sweden signed a slew of trade deals on Tuesday during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Sweden, including agreements with China-owned Swedish bran...

China eyes Europe's ex-communist East

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao ends a four-nation European tour with a two-day visit to Poland starting Wednesday, focused on a high profile regional trade and inve...

China's Wen eyes German business at world's top trade fair

Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Monday visited the world's biggest industrial fair, hosted by European powerhouse Germany where firms increasingly see Chin...

Brazil wants US technology transfer restrictions lifted

Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)

Brazil's defense minister says he will press for the lifting of US restrictions to military technology transfer in his upcoming talks with his American counterp...

Germany's Merkel, China's Wen open Hanover trade fair

Apr 22, 2012 (AFP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao officially opened Sunday evening the Hannover Messe, the world's biggest industry and trad...

China city vows to protect foreigners amid scandal

Apr 21, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese authorities in Chongqing have pledged to better protect foreigners after Briton Neil Heywood's death in suspicious circumstances sparked a dramatic poli...

China to fuel world copper demand

Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)

China will continue to lead global demand for copper while Latin America will remain the world's biggest supplier, economic analysts said this week. China incre...

S. America more cautious with Asia imports

Apr 19, 2012 (UPI)

Latin American importers are more cautious with goods they buy in East Asia and are hiring quality-control services to check their imports at source, new busine...

Japan posts record fiscal-year trade deficit

Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)

Japan on Thursday posted a record trade deficit for the 2011 fiscal year with car and electronics exports tumbling, while energy imports soared in the wake of t...

Tourism sector eyes travellers from emerging nations

Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)

The global tourism industry, hit by natural disasters and economic turmoil, is eyeing potential travellers from emerging nations in hope that their growing midd...

Microsoft's earnings shine ahead of new product wave

Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft posted quarterly net income of $5.11 billion on record-high revenue on the cusp of what executives billed as a huge "product launch wave" promising ev...

eBay reports hot quarter as shopping goes digital

Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)

Internet auction powerhouse eBay on Wednesday reported that quarterly revenue and profit boomed due in large part to its PayPal online financial transaction ser...

Starbucks plans China expansion

Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)

American giant Starbucks plans to heavily invest in expansion in China as the local population starts to embrace the coffee culture, the company's Asia Pacific ...

Japan's Toshiba to pay $850 mn for IBM retail unit

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said Tuesday it would pay about $850.0 million for IBM's retail products unit, with the US firm saying it would create the wo...

Mongolia to suspend mine licences over China buyout

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

A Mongolian coal miner announced Tuesday authorities in the resource-rich country want to suspend some of its licences, after China's Chalco said it planned to ...

China pledges to increase trade with Thailand

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged Tuesday to expand trade with Thailand to $100 billion annually and step up ties on a wide range of issues, including t...

Outside View: China widens yuan trading

Apr 17, 2012 (UPI)

Beijing announced Sunday it was widening the daily trading range for the yuan to 1 percentage point. This news has been heralded as another indication that Chin...

Canada streamlines environmental reviews

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

Canada on Tuesday unveiled plans to simplify the way it reviews major economic projects, but the opposition charged that the changes would gut the country's env...

Brazil attacks rich nations as 'predatory'

Apr 17, 2012 (UPI)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said developed nations' monetary policies threaten to extinguish manufacturing in countries aiming to reduce dependence on in...