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Britain's poetic shipping forecast turns 150
Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)
The Shipping Forecast was first transmitted by telegraph and then by the BBC starting in the 1920s when it became a daily fixture for listeners. Sea areas with ...
US launches formal trade investigation into China
Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)
"On Monday, President Trump instructed me to look into Chinese laws, policies, and practices which may be harming American intellectual property rights, innovat...
Australia to regulate virtual currency exchanges like Bitcoin
Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)
The changes came two weeks after AUSTRAC took the country's biggest bank, the Commonwealth, to court for alleged "serious and systemic non-compliance" of money ...
Archaeologists discover ancient trade routes in Vietnam
Aug 18, 2017 (UPI)
As revealed by several excavations, a vast network of manufacturing hubs and trade routes moved large amounts of goods from settlement to settlement between 4,5...
US in 'economic war' with China, says Trump strategist Bannon
Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)
"To me the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that," he said in the interview with the American Prospect, a left-lea...
Warning from history: Could Japan-style crash hit China
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
The similarities are not lost on Beijing: President Xi Jinping has commissioned a study to help China avoid Japan's pitfalls, according to Bloomberg, as growth ...
Trump renews attack on Amazon, claiming 'jobs lost'
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
Trump, who has criticized Amazon in the past, offered no specific facts to back up his argument. He launched his tirade in an early-morning tweet as he came und...
China warns of retaliation as Trump launches trade probe
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's decision to order the investigation comes on top of strains between the two nations over how to handle Beijing's ally North Korea. Trum...
Guam officials 'ecstatic' as North Korea holds off attack
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
"There doesn't appear to be any indication, based on what we're hearing, that there will be any missiles attacking in the near future or in the distant future,"...
Bianca Jagger leads Nicaragua canal protest
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
The 72-year-old is a former actress and ex-wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger. She joined dozens of demonstrators who marched in La Fonseca, a remote vil...
China's debt on a 'dangerous trajectory': IMF
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
The International Monetary Fund, which has repeatedly warned China over its ballooning debt, said in a new report that the world's second largest economy must t...
Australia's Crown says all staff held in China now free
Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)
Mogul James Packer's gaming company said the last of the 19 current and former Crown employees had been set free after being held for 10 months. "Crown is pleas...
Trump ups ante with China, orders inquiry over trade ties
Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)
Trump signed a memorandum directing US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine whether Chinese policies hurt American investors or companies -- with...
China industrial output slows sharply in July
Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)
The figures come as the authorities have sought to tighten regulations to tame debt as well as reduce excess capacity left over from massive government-backed i...
Nepal revives railways as China, India vye for influence
Aug 13, 2017 (AFP)
The railway to India was a lifeline for the small southern frontier town of Janakpur, used to import everything from sweets to clothes and cosmetics and fuellin...
Ahead of NAFTA talks, Canada looks to U.S. Midwest
Aug 11, 2017 (UPI)
Chris Nielsen, a member of the legislative assembly from Edmonton, Alberta, leads a delegation on behalf of Trade Minister Deron Bilous to Minnesota to discuss ...
Treadmills to karaoke -- China goes sharing crazy
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
With the boom spawning some novel ideas but also warnings of a sharing "bubble" in the world's second-largest economy, AFP lists a number of the services that h...
US finds Chinese aluminum foil subsidized, slaps duties
Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)
The department "will instruct US Customs and Border Protection to collect cash deposits from importers of aluminum foil from China based on these preliminary ra...
China factory gate inflation misses expectations in July
Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)
The producer price index (PPI) rose 5.5 percent year-on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the same as the previous two months but miss...
McDonald's to nearly double outlets in China
Aug 08, 2017 (AFP)
The Illinois-based burger chain will add 2,000 stores to its current 2,500 in China and aim for double-digit sales growth in each of the next five years, McDona...
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