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China to unveil steel merger plans this week: reports
Sep 20, 2016 (AFP)
China is expected to announce plans to merge the country's top steelmakers this week, according to media reports, creating the world's second-largest manufactur...
Australia's Port of Melbourne sold for $7.3 bln
Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)
An Australian-led consortium with Chinese investment won a 50-year-lease Monday on the nation's biggest container and cargo port for Aus$9.7 billion (US$7.3 bil...
Protesters rally across Germany against mega trade deal
Sep 17, 2016 (AFP)
More than 160,000 demonstrators thronged seven major cities across Germany on Saturday in protest over a massive transatlantic trade deal, dealing a new blow to...
China says grain subsidies meet WTO rules; 13 nations take aim at fishing subsidies
Sep 14, 2016 (AFP)
China's rice, wheat and corn subsidies are in line with WTO rules, Beijing's commerce ministry said after Washington launched legal action against what it says ...
Moody's warns on Hong Kong rating after polls
Sep 13, 2016 (AFP)
Hong Kong's credit rating could be at risk after the success of a new generation of young anti-China politicians in legislative elections this month, Moody's wa...
China imports break two-year losing streak in August
Sep 08, 2016 (AFP)
China's imports rose for the first time in nearly two years in August, figures showed Thursday, the 1.5 percent annual increase beating expectations in a positi...
Irish opposition attacks Apple ruling appeal
Sep 07, 2016 (AFP)
Ireland's opposition on Wednesday lashed out at a cabinet decision to appeal the EU's Apple ruling amid public support for the European Commission order to coll...
Canada's Trudeau hails new friendship with China
Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that ties with Beijing had entered a new era following a charm offensive which saw 56 business deals signed....
Britain's May faces obstacles to post-EU trade goals
Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)
New British leader Theresa May sought Monday to start shaping her country's post-EU access to world markets, but faced a Japanese warning over the fallout from ...
G20 warns against slide into protectionism
Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)
The world's leading economies spoke out against a return to protectionism and defended the unfashionable concepts of free trade and globalisation Monday, warnin...
Trudeau warns against dangerous protectionist mood
Sep 03, 2016 (AFP)
World leaders need to push back against a tide of "rampant" protectionism and nationalism, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau said Saturday, warning that "building...
New Brazil president woos business allies in China
Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)
New Brazilian President Michel Temer insisted Friday his country has turned a page on years of crisis as he wooed businesses in China after replacing Dilma Rous...
EU Chamber urges China to lift foreign investment curbs
Sep 01, 2016 (AFP)
A European lobby group in China on Thursday slammed the country's "unequal investment landscape" and called for it to drop wide-scale prohibitions on foreign in...
Apple accuses European Commission of 'political crap' over EUR13bn fine
Sep 01, 2016 (AFP)
Apple chief Tim Cook on Thursday slammed a European Commission ruling demanding the US tech behemoth pay Ireland EUR13 billion in back-taxes as "political crap"...
Canada to apply to join China-backed infrastructure bank
Aug 31, 2016 (AFP)
Canada will apply to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Ottawa's finance department said Wednesday, in a coup for Beijing after ...
Obama to press China on steel at G20, Lew says
Aug 31, 2016 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will call for broader fiscal stimulus from other economies and press Beijing to limit steel capacity during his final G20 summit this ...
Apple to fight record EU tax bill
Aug 31, 2016 (AFP)
Silicon Valley tech titan Apple will fight an EU demand for a record 13 billion euros in back taxes in Ireland, a move Washington warned could damage transatlan...
Apple faces huge Irish tax payout in EU case
Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)
The European Union is expected to order Apple on Tuesday to pay billions of euros in back taxes in Ireland in one of its largest such cases after ruling that sw...
Multi-billion Apple windfall puts Ireland in unusual bind
Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)
The European Commission's demand for Apple to pay Ireland some 13 billion euros in back taxes has put the country in the strange position of refusing the windfa...
Chinese tycoon to buy US aluminium maker for $2.33 bn
Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese billionaire has agreed to acquire US aluminium maker Aleris Corporation for $2.33 billion including debt, one of his companies said, the latest overse...
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