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China economy shows weakness as investment growth hits new low
Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing faces a delicate balancing act, aiming to shift its growth driver away from investment and exports towards personal consumption, while at the same time ...
China welcomes US trade talks offer as new tariffs loom
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
The countries have been engaged in an escalating tit-for-tat trade fight for months but on Wednesday it emerged that US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had in...
A reliable cryptocurrency needs good governance, say researchers
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
He is the lead author of a study in Springer's journal Environment Systems and Decisions, which analyzes the governance challenges of many cryptocurrencies and ...
US companies in China say tariffs are hurting: survey
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
The American Chamber of Commerce in China polled more than 430 US companies operating in the country, providing the first detailed look at how Donald Trump's tr...
China warns of 'serious hazard' of protectionism at WEF meeting
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
The comments from China's vice premier comes as the world's top two economic powers edged closer to an all-out trade war after imposing tit-for-tat tariffs on b...
China's trade surplus with US hit new record in August
Sep 08, 2018 (AFP)
The figures were released hours after President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on the totality of Chinese goods imported into the United States, worth ...
Canada upbeat on trade deal progress, China tariffs loom
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
Discussions with Canada -- the largest US trading partner -- seem to be on track to agree on a rewrite of the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. W...
Trump turns up the heat in trade conflict with China
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
His comments, which contradicted the more diplomatic remarks earlier Friday from his top economic adviser, sent the stock market plunging amid fears of the econ...
A more prosperous global future is possible
Sep 07, 2018 (SPX)
"The expected global effects of climate change on our oceans are broadly negative," said Steve Gaines, the study's lead author and dean of UC Santa Barbara's Br...
Deutsche Bank shares drop on reports of Chinese sell-off
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
The bank's stock was trading down 2.25 percent at 9.54 euros ($11.07) by 2:30 pm (1230 GMT), underperforming the DAX index of blue-chip German shares. Citing pe...
US trade policy at a crossroads with Canada, China
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
With Canada, the largest US trading partner, talks seem to be on track to agree on a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement. But there have been no ...
China's Zijin to buy Canadian miner Nevsun for $1.41 bn
Sep 05, 2018 (AFP)
Zijin offered shareholders C$6.00 ($4.5) per share in the all-cash deal that comes after Nevsun rejected several bids from Canadian rival Lundin Mining. "Zijin ...
China's 'Silk Road' project runs into debt jam
Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)
First announced in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the initiative also known as the "new Silk Road" envisions the construction of railways, roads and ports across...
Deal on China-backed mega free trade pact likely in November: Singapore
Sep 01, 2018 (AFP)
The 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which will cover about half the world's population and a third of its GDP, has taken centre st...
China manufacturing activity strengthens in August
Aug 31, 2018 (AFP)
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.3 for the month, up from 51.2 in July, the National Bureau of Statistics ...
Chinese banks post solid profits but US trade war a risk
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
Net profit for Industrial & Commercial Bank of China climbed almost five percent to 160.4 billion yuan ($23.5 billion) between January and June compared to the ...
Trump says EU bid to end auto tariffs 'not good enough'
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
Just hours earlier, the EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem had said the bloc was "willing to bring down... our car tariffs to zero" provided that the Unit...
China-backed trade pact talks at 'critical stage': Singapore PM
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
The 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which will be the world's biggest free-trade accord if it is agreed, has taken centre stage as...
Rights groups urge Google not to bend to China censors
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
A reported Dragonfly project, which Google has not publicly confirmed, "would represent an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights," argued a letter sig...
Foreigners barred from buying in planned Malaysian city
Aug 27, 2018 (AFP)
Forest City, an "eco-city" of high rises and waterfront villas, will sit on four man-made islands in Malaysia's southern state of Johor, just an hour from Singa...
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