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Malaysian bauxite rush brings wealth, and worries
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
Malaysian farmer Surin Beris's palm plantation has been razed and bulldozers are tearing into its red soil, releasing potentially hazardous dust into the enviro...
Police probe China metals exchange: govt
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese police are investigating a troubled state-managed metal exchange for criminal offences, the local government said late Tuesday, months after it failed t...
Zimbabwe to expand use of yuan as China cancels $40 mn debt
Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)
Zimbabwe said Monday that China plans to cancel $40 million in debts as the southern African country seeks to expand use of the yuan in its multi-currency econo...
Bitcoin's 'blockchain' tech may transform banking
Dec 19, 2015 (AFP)
The technology that drives the shadowy cryptocurrency bitcoin is drawing interest from the established banking industry, which sees a potential to revolutionize...
Cook bashes talk Apple is dodging taxes
Dec 18, 2015 (AFP)
Apple chief Tim Cook emphatically rejected accusations that the world's richest company is sidestepping US taxes by keeping bundles of cash overseas, suggesting...
Chinese pull plug on French tech park: French official
Dec 16, 2015 (AFP)
Franco-Chinese plans to set up a business and technology park on a 130-hectare site in eastern France, have bitten the dust three years after they were first mo...
Mongolia's giant Oyu Tolgoi mine gets $4 bn financing
Dec 15, 2015 (AFP)
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto secured a multi-billion deal Tuesday to finance a huge expansion of its giant but controversial Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongo...
China joins European development bank
Dec 14, 2015 (AFP)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said Monday it had accepted China as a member, handing the world's second biggest economy investment routes...
China approves merger of two top shipping firms: Xinhua
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
China will merge two of its biggest state-owned shipping companies, official media reported Friday, as the government seeks to reform lumbering public companies...
China cuts yuan to over four-year low vs dollar
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
China's central bank on Friday cut the yuan's value against the greenback to its lowest in more than four years, only a week after the International Monetary Fu...
Chinese steel dumping threatens sector recovery in Europe, US
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
European and US steel producers are only slowly emerging from a 2008 sector meltdown, but already they are faced with a new challenge: Chinese dumping. Chinese ...
China imports and exports fall again in November: govt
Dec 08, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese imports and exports both fell in November, official data showed Tuesday, the latest poor figures from the world's second-largest economy. The country is...
S. Korea ratifies free trade deal with China
Nov 30, 2015 (AFP)
South Korea on Monday ratified a free trade agreement (FTA) with China that would remove most tariffs between Asia's largest and fourth-largest economies. The p...
Hungary to issue yuan bonds with Chinese blessing
Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)
Hungary said on Wednesday it will issue bonds denominated in yuan, a first for any central or eastern European country. Hungary hopes the move, based on a memor...
China proposes firm to fund projects in Europe
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
China is proposing a financial firm to fund projects in central and eastern Europe, Premier Li Keqiang said Tuesday, extending the Asian giant's global reach as...
Metal prices slide on strong dollar, China woes
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
The prices of metals slumped to multi-year low points this week owing mainly to a strengthening dollar and persistent concerns over weaker Chinese demand, analy...
Xi warns of rival free trade pact 'fragmentation'
Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)
China's President Xi Jinping Wednesday urged Asian economies to sign up to its free trade agreement, warning that rival pacts risked causing "fragmentation" amo...
Pakistan army chief heads to US as pressure grows over Afghanistan
Nov 14, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's influential military chief will visit the US from Sunday, a trip analysts say will underscore security issues facing Islamabad and Washington in the ...
China splurges on world's biggest online shopping spree
Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese Internet users spent billions of dollars in the planet's biggest online shopping splurge Wednesday, as "Singles Day" hit new heights, despite slowing gr...
Pakistan hands land over to China for economic zone
Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan handed hundreds of hectares of land over to China Wednesday for development of a special economic zone in the port of Gwadar, part of a $46 billion pro...
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