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Alibaba and Wanda face off: online and offline
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
China's former richest man Wang Jianlin once bet Alibaba founder Jack Ma 100 million yuan ($16.3 million) that online purchases in the country would not eclipse...
A year on, foreign firms still await FTZ reform bonanza
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
China on Monday hailed the first anniversary of its first free-trade zone (FTZ), but foreign companies expressed disappointment over the pace of pledged reforms...
LME says will ramp up trading fees by 34%
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
LME says will ramp up trading fees by 34% London (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - The London Metal Exchange, the main global metals market, said Monday it will raise fees ...
Fashion made-in-China: fine for everyone but the Chinese
Sep 28, 2014 (AFP)
It has been called fashion's dirty little secret but according to Miuccia Prada, soon everybody will be doing it. Made-in-China's just fine with Prada's supremo...
China's CITIC wins interim injunction in Mineralogy dispute
Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese-owned CITIC has won an interim injunction temporarily halting a bid by Australian tycoon Clive Palmer's company Mineralogy to terminate its mining right...
Microsoft chief makes first China visit amid probe: report
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is visiting China for the first time since taking the post in February, state media said Friday, as authorities ...
France's Sanofi opens research hub in China
Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi opened a research hub in Shanghai Thursday, the company said, as foreign drug firms face government scrutiny after drugmaker ...
Spanish PM visits China in bid to boost trade
Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday made his first visit to China, meeting with top officials in Beijing on a trip aimed at expanding trade with th...
One million Filipinos join booming Philippine outsourcing sector
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
The Philippines' booming outsourcing industry now employs a million people after growing almost tenfold in just over a decade, the industry association said Wed...
Farmers protest planned $50-bn canal in Nicaragua
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
Hundreds of farmers Tuesday demonstrated against a new $50 billion waterway aimed at rivalling the Panama Canal, irate at plans to expropriate the land they wor...
China travel warning hits Philippine tourism industry
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of Chinese tourists have cancelled trips to the Philippines after a travel warning by Beijing, inflicting major pain on hotels, airlines and t...
Japan business delegation visits China amid thaw hopes
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
A large business delegation left Japan Monday for China with hopes of being granted an audience with President Xi Jinping as the two countries take baby steps t...
China's Zhu charms Milan with Italian vision of Krizia future
Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)
Zhu Chongyun, the glamorous Chinese entrepreneur and designer who has taken over Krizia, has vowed to maintain the historic fashion house's made-in-Italy herita...
Alibaba surges in Wall Street debut
Sep 19, 2014 (AFP)
A buying frenzy sent Alibaba shares sharply higher Friday as the Chinese online giant made its historic Wall Street trading debut. Alibaba leapt from an offerin...
Commodity prices roiled by stronger dollar, China
Sep 19, 2014 (AFP)
Oil prices endured a volatile week and metals futures fell as the dollar strengthened and Chinese economic data disappointed markets. OIL: World oil prices edge...
Border stand-off overshadows China leader's India trip
Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)
Indian and Chinese leaders pledged Thursday to resolve a long-running border dispute that led to a bloody 1962 war, as a stand-off between troops on the remote ...
Weak yen fails to boost exports as Japan logs trade deficit
Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)
Japan on Thursday posted its 26th consecutive monthly trade deficit, as a sharply weaker yen failed to lift exports as the world's number three economy stalls. ...
China removes top official of free trade zone: media
Sep 15, 2014 (AFP)
China has removed a senior official of its much-heralded Shanghai free-trade zone (FTZ) less than a year after it was opened, state media said Monday, amid repo...
Alibaba to raise up to $25 bn with revised IPO price
Sep 15, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese online giant Alibaba on Monday boosted the price range for what was already expected to be the biggest stock offering on record, to as much as $25.03 bi...
China's Xi wins Maldives backing for 'maritime silk route'
Sep 15, 2014 (AFP)
China's President Xi Jinping secured Maldivian support Monday for a "21st century maritime silk road" as he began a South Asian tour in the strategically locate...
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