TRADE WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Judge defers class action in US tech 'poaching' case

Apr 05, 2013 (AFP)

A judge on Friday cited strengths of a suit charging Silicon Valley giants with secretly agreeing not to "poach" each other's workers but shot down a request fo...

Chinese travellers are top spenders: UN tourism body

Apr 04, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese travellers are the world's biggest tourism spenders, splashing out a record $102 billion (78 billion euros) on trips abroad in 2012, the UN World Touris...

Glencore-Xstrata delay merger to wait for Chinese nod

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

Swiss mining giant Xstrata and commodities trader Glencore announced Tuesday they had pushed back further the date to finalise their merger as they wait for app...

US visa day sparks new debate on tech workers

Apr 01, 2013 (AFP)

As the US government opened up visa applications Monday for highly skilled immigrants, debate flared anew on the tech sector's demands to be able to hire more f...

Taiwan, China agree to further bank investments

Apr 01, 2013 (AFP)

Taiwan and China on Monday agreed to further ease investment caps in each other's financial institutions, in the latest sign of warming ties between the two for...

Outside View: Ukrainian government tenders

Mar 28, 2013 (UPI)

Foreign Agent Registration Act (Department of Justice) reporting shows that authoritarian Ukrainian Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yanukovych have poured f...

China lashes out at US technology restrictions

Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)

Beijing branded a new US spending bill barring government purchases of Chinese-made technology "biased" on Thursday, after the two powers clashed over accusatio...

Paraguay set against Venezuela pact role

Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)

The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has widened the gulf between his country and Paraguay, the landlocked nation that was suspended from regional trad...

China tightens grip on Africa's resources

Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)

China's new President Xi Jinping is touring Africa, underlining the mineral-rich continent's strategic importance for Beijing in its relentless drive to acquire...

BRICS voice concern on violence in Iran, Syria

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

Leaders from emerging powers on Wednesday expressed their opposition to threat of military action against Tehran, amid US and Israeli warnings they will not tol...

China, S.Africa seal new oil, rail deals

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

South Africa signed a raft of agreements with China on Tuesday, including on the construction of a world-class oil refinery and upgrading the country's rail and...

Outside View: U.S-Ukraine ties

Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)

Second only to Russia itself, Ukraine is the most important country of the former Soviet Union for U.S. policy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Despite Kiev's dec...

China firm's Australia deal in doubt over murder case

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

A Chinese firm's billion-dollar takeover of an Australian iron ore miner was in danger of collapse Tuesday after reports the buyer's boss was detained by police...

Resources giveaway in Latin America tramples human rights and environment

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

A new study reveals that governments in Latin America have returned to natural resources extraction to fuel development-while paying scant attention to the impa...

China, Japan, S. Korea open free trade talks

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

China, Japan and South Korea kicked off formal negotiations Tuesday on securing a free trade agreement to bind together three economies that account for around ...

BRICS: a dynamic group dominated by China

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

As the leaders of BRICS five emerging nations meet in Durban for a summit on Tuesday, economic data shows that the grouping of Brazil, China, India, Russia and ...

H.K. court rejects landmark residency bid by maids

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

Hong Kong's top court on Monday threw out a landmark case that would have given hundreds of thousands of foreign maids the right to seek permanent residency, en...

Outside View: TPP and Asian economies

Mar 22, 2013 (UPI)

Joining what is likely to be the world's biggest trade deal can be a mixed blessing. Advocates insist that joining the Trans Pacific Partnership could boost exp...

Chinese workers jailed for high-rise demo in Singapore

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced two Chinese workers to four weeks in jail each for staging a high-rise protest atop construction cranes in December, loc...

U.K. envoy move eases Paraguay isolation

Mar 21, 2013 (UPI)

Whether intended or not, Britain's reopening of its embassy in Asuncion will help Paraguayan President Federico Franco recover from diplomatic setbacks since a ...