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Despite optimism, tough road for immigration reform
Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)
Hope over prospects for immigration reform, a bipartisan glow unheard of in polarized Washington, has for now suppressed political wildcards that could yet blun...
China's looming worker shortage threatens economy
Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)
China's demographic timebomb is ticking much louder with the first fall in its labour pool for decades, analysts say, highlighting the risk that the country gro...
Pakistan approves port transfer to China
Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan on Wednesday approved a deal transferring from Singapore to China the management of the strategically located deep-sea Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea. ...
Increasing problems for Tavan Tolgoi mine
Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)
Mongolia's massive state-owned coal mine, the Tavan Tolgoi, is facing increasing problems. Last week, Erdenes-Tavan Tolgoi, the state-owned mining company that ...
World tourist numbers exceed 1.0 billion in 2012: UN
Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)
International tourist arrivals exceeded one billion for the first time last year despite ongoing global economic uncertainty and numbers will rise further in 20...
Japan PM suggests summit with China
Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday suggested a summit with China would improve a relationship that has been badly troubled for months. The latest sign...
Slow progress in Latam, EU trade talks
Jan 28, 2013 (UPI)
Argentine protectionist tendencies and Brazil's economic downturn seem set to determine the direction of a much delayed trade deal between South America's Merco...
French/Chinese shipping groups CMA CGM, CMHI unveil tie up
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
French container shipping company CMA CGM has sold 49 percent of its Terminal Link unit in Marseille, southern France, to China Merchants Holdings International...
Foreign visitors flock back to post-disaster Japan
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2012 surged 34.6 percent from the previous year as the tourism sector rebounded after the 2011 tsunami and nuclear di...
Japan logs record trade deficit in 2012
Jan 24, 2013 (AFP)
Japan on Thursday logged a record trade deficit for 2012 as exports were hit by a bitter diplomatic spat with its biggest market China and plunging demand in de...
Reding: EU won't renegotiate free movement deal with Switzerland
Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)
The EU would not renegotiate its bilateral agreements with Switzerland should Swiss voters restrict immigration, a European Commission official has warned. EC V...
Apple, Google chiefs face grilling on 'no-poaching'
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
Apple chief Tim Cook and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing not to "...
Chilean mining investment to top $100B
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
Investment in Chile's mining sector is set to exceed $100 billion over the next 12 years and about half will go into boosting copper production, mainstay of the...
US software engineer outsources his job to China
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
"Bob" the software engineer was becoming a modern workplace legend on Thursday as word spread that he had secretly outsourced his own job to China and sat at hi...
China Mining Corporation to list in Hong Kong this month
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
China's Chinalco Mining Corporation said Thursday it hopes to raise up to $435 million in a Hong Kong initial public offering this month, the city's first major...
Foreign investment in China in first fall for three years
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
Foreign direct investment in China declined for the first time in three years in 2012, official data showed on Wednesday, amid economic turmoil in developed mar...
China expects trade to grow at similar pace to GDP
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
China said Wednesday that it expects foreign trade to grow at a similar pace to the economy this year, indicating a feeble pickup from 2012. "Our target this ye...
China's trade surplus with US inflated by trade stats: OECD-WTO
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
Current trade statistics miss a vital part of the story of where production occurs in the globalised economy, the OECD and WTO said on Wednesday, adding that Ch...
Fear and loathing in Brazil as World Cup beckons
Jan 16, 2013 (UPI)
As the 2014 FIFA World Cup approaches, host nation Brazil is dealing with unresolved problems that sent more than 1 million protesters into the streets last yea...
US seeks new global trade deal for services
Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)
The United States will meet representatives of other major economies to try to negotiate a global agreement on the trade in services, the top US trade represent...
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