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Shanghai free trade zone will deal a blow to Hong Kong: Li
Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)
Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing has warned that Shanghai's new free-trade zone will have a "big impact" on Hong Kong, urging the city to up its game to avoid los...
Romania delays decision on controversial mine project
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
Romania on Tuesday delayed a decision on whether to go ahead with a Canadian gold mine project that has provoked mass protests. A parliamentary vote on a bill t...
FDI into China up 6.37% in first eight months: govt
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose 6.37 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2013, the government said Tuesday, adding it was a sign o...
Thousands march against Canadian gold mine in Romania
Sep 15, 2013 (AFP)
Some 20,000 Romanians took to the streets on Sunday protesting against a Canadian company's plan to open Europe's largest gold mine in the heart of Transylvania...
Richemont sales growth hit by unfavourable exchange rates
Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)
Swiss luxury goods giant Richemont said Thursday its sales growth had slowed during the first five months of its reporting year amid unfavourable exchange rates...
Romania workers occupy site of contested gold mine project
Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)
Twenty-two Romanian workers on Thursday refused to leave an ancient mining gallery in a last-ditch bid to get MPs to vote a bill that would clear the way for a ...
Multinationals to get equal treatment in China: premier
Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)
China's premier promised equal treatment for multinational companies operating in the country, as he opened a meeting of the World Economic Forum on Wednesday. ...
Egypt violence stirs fears of Suez Canal terror
Sep 11, 2013 (UPI)
A failed attack on a container ship transiting the Suez Canal has raised concerns that as Egypt descends into widening violence the strategic waterway, could be...
Romania PM backs down on controversial gold mine project
Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday gave in to mounting street protests against a planned Canadian gold mine, admitting that a bill aimed at speeding...
Australia's new government a boost to mining industry?
Sep 09, 2013 (UPI)
Resource sector leaders in Australia applauded the election Saturday of Tony Abbott as the country's new prime minister. Outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ...
China among world's top three investors in 2012: government
Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)
China became one of the world's top three investors for the first time last year as its foreign investment soared to a new record, the government said Monday. T...
China trade performance improves on stronger exports
Sep 08, 2013 (AFP)
China's trade performance was better than expected in August, as stronger exports to recovering overseas economies caused the trade surplus to widen to $28.5 bi...
Thousands protest Romania gold mine plans
Sep 08, 2013 (AFP)
More than 15,000 Romanians took to the streets for the eighth straight day Sunday to protest a Canadian company's plans to open Europe's largest gold mine in a ...
Hong Kong under threat from new Chinese trade zone: analysts
Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)
Hong Kong's status as a financial powerhouse is under threat, analysts say, after plans for China's first free-trade zone revealed a large-scale push to create ...
Outside View: The trade deal that can't afford to be derailed
Sep 06, 2013 (UPI)
Time is running out for what would be the world's biggest trade deal to be clinched on time. While rumblings of the possibility of the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Smithfield gets US security OK for Chinese takeover
Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)
The takeover of US pork giant Smithfield Foods by China's Shuanghui International Holdings has received approval from a key US national security review, the two...
Shipping suffering low water levels on Great Lakes
Sep 06, 2013 (UPI)
Shipping on the U.S. Great Lakes is suffering as a result of low water levels, a climate scientist and industry analysts say. Water levels have remained below a...
BRICS urge careful US tapering as Putin hosts mini summit
Sep 05, 2013 (AFP)
The world's leading emerging economies urged the United States on Thursday to show caution in any tapering of its economic stimulus, as Russian President Vladim...
Israeli tycoon center of probe in $2.5B Guinea mining deal
Sep 05, 2013 (UPI)
An international investigation into a mining conglomerate controlled by secretive Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and a deal involving a mountain of iron wor...
Nepal's smugglers cash in on India's love of gold
Sep 04, 2013 (AFP)
After a long drive from across the border in China, the white truck arrived in Nepal's capital at dawn with a seemingly innocuous cargo of Chinese-made clothes....
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