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Japan electronics giants warn of massive losses
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Sony and Sharp, two of Japan's best-known electronics giants, on Tuesday warned of record losses in the billions of dollars as they struggle to survive amid fie...
Japan swings back to current account surplus
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Japan posted a current account surplus in February thanks to a stronger US economy, official data said, reversing a record deficit in January although the figur...
Tycoon arrests blacken Hong Kong's clean image
Apr 08, 2012 (AFP)
A corruption case against Hong Kong's two richest property tycoons is a black mark on the city's clean image and could fuel public anger over links between gove...
Iran non-oil exports surge 29% despite sanctions
Apr 07, 2012 (AFP)
Iran's non-oil exports surged 29 percent to nearly $44 billion in the year to mid-March despite tough Western sanctions to rein in Tehran's disputed nuclear dri...
One row too many? Argentina upsets Brazil
Apr 06, 2012 (UPI)
Did Argentina take a step too far by targeting Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in its campaign to pressure companies to invest more into producing more oil? Latin...
Outside View: Lebanon on the cusp
Apr 06, 2012 (UPI)
What does one say about Beirut -- a colorful, booming, blossoming city, with traffic like nowhere else, warm hospitality, burgeoning political tensions that kee...
Court setback for controversial Canadian mine in Romania
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
A Romanian court invalidated a key permit for an opencast gold mine planned by Canadian company Gabriel Resources in Rosia Montana, a setback for the controvers...
US sees promise in China economic reforms
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
China's leaders are sliding their toes further into the tide of economic reform, exciting ripples of cautious optimism in the United States, where Wall Street a...
Brazil's Rousseff to raise 'currency war' in US
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
President Dilma Rousseff will next week propose to US counterpart Barack Obama that the two countries work together to end the "currency war" that is hurting Br...
China boosts foreign investment quota
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
China has nearly tripled the amount of money foreign institutions can invest in stocks, bonds and bank deposits to $80 billion as it seeks to boost its capital ...
Argentina escalates quarrel with Spain
Apr 04, 2012 (UPI)
Argentina escalated its quarrel with Spain over the fate of largest oil producer YPF, controlled by Spain, and threatened action against another Spanish company...
World Bank chief backs BRICS bank idea
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
Outgoing World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Tuesday gave his backing to a new development bank proposed by the leaders of the BRICS emerging countries. Zoe...
H.K. tycoon brothers in graft probe deny wrongdoing
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
Hong Kong tycoon brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok on Tuesday declared their innocence and sought to calm investors after their arrest last week as part of the c...
James Murdoch: heir apparent dogged by hacking scandal
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
From teenage rebel to prodigal son, James Murdoch surprised many observers when he rose to become the heir apparent to his father Rupert's global media empire. ...
Visa drops US payment handler after breach
Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)
Global Payments on Monday said that Visa has dropped the US-based payment processor after data from as many as 1.5 million credit cards was looted from its syst...
Tourism, fishing, wool fuel Falklands economy
Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)
Historically, the Falkland islands lived off sheep and whaling, but 30 years after Argentina and Britain went to war over the disputed islands, tourism, fishing...
Taiwan doubles quota for solo Chinese tourists
Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan will double its quota of independent Chinese tourists to allow up to 1,000 visitors a day, the government announced Sunday less than a year after lifting...
Paris show bets on green, fair luxury
Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)
Luxury and sustainable development may sound like polar opposites, but green pioneers gathered at a Paris show at the weekend were betting on a cleaner, fairer ...
Cardin showcases 'Light Palace' project in China
Mar 31, 2012 (AFP)
Legendary French fashion designer Pierre Cardin is in Beijing this weekend to present his 240-metre-high edifice "Light Palace" planned near Venice and which he...
India, China pledge to deepen trade links
Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)
China agreed Thursday to open its doors to more Indian exports at a meeting between the leaders of the two countries on the sidelines of a summit of emerging ma...
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