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Trade with Cuba on Russian radar
May 08, 2015 (UPI)
Trade and economic cooperation with Cuba, formerly on the Russian oil radar, topped the agenda of Kremlin meetings, a Russian government spokesman said. Cuba is...
China April exports down 6.4% in new sign of weakness
May 08, 2015 (AFP)
China's exports fell unexpectedly in April as imports posted their sixth straight monthly decrease, official data showed Friday, with analysts calling for more ...
Germany's Siemens acknowledges China examination
May 05, 2015 (AFP)
German industrial giant Siemens confirmed that Chinese regulators are "looking into" the business model of its healthcare unit, but denied it was a corruption i...
Siemens, Philips, GE units in China bribery probe: report
May 04, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese regulators are investigating units of foreign medical device companies including Germany's Siemens, Dutch firm Philips and General Electric of the US fo...
Taiwan ruling party 'optimistic' over joining AIIB
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
The head of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party said Sunday he was "optimistic" about the island joining a Beijing-led regional development bank, despite China hav...
China overtakes US as Australia's largest foreign investor
May 01, 2015 (AFP)
China has for the first time overtaken the United States as Australia's largest source of foreign investment, according to official data, laying out Aus$27.7 bi...
US keeps China, India on intellectual rights watch list
Apr 30, 2015 (AFP)
The United States on Thursday kept China and India on its Priority Watch List of trading partners that fail to protect intellectual property rights (IPR), hurti...
Obama, Abe say not opposed to China infrastructure bank
Apr 28, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that they were not opposed to China's Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, but stress...
Iran seizes cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz
Apr 28, 2015 (AFP)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized control of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, prompting the US Navy to dis...
China opens bank card clearing sector to foreign firms
Apr 23, 2015 (AFP)
China has announced plans that will allow giants such as Visa and MasterCard to set up credit card clearing services in the country, breaking the monopoly in a ...
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's popularity setback for US
Apr 20, 2015 (UPI)
Many Asians believe that the region's dramatic economic rise over the past several decades has not been reflected in global financial institutions. The internat...
China to launch three new free-trade zones
Apr 20, 2015 (AFP)
China will launch three new free-trade zones on Tuesday, official media said Monday, building on a project that began in Shanghai to much fanfare but has so far...
Coca-Cola to buy Chinese protein drinks business
Apr 17, 2015 (AFP)
Coca Cola has agreed to buy a Chinese plant-based drinks business, renewing its push into the China market after authorities in 2009 blocked its bid for a juice...
Fast-track trade deal stirs U.S. pot
Apr 17, 2015 (UPI)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lauded a congressional measure to open international trade doors, though opponents said the measure puts the climate at risk....
Egypt joins China-based infrastructure bank, hopes for funds
Apr 16, 2015 (AFP)
Egypt has been approved as a founding member of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, opening the way for it to benefit from the bank's $50 b...
FDI into China accelerates in March: govt
Apr 16, 2015 (AFP)
Foreign direct investment into China picked up in March, official figures showed Thursday, though outbound investment from the world's second-largest economy sl...
Thousands of Greek miners protest feared job losses
Apr 16, 2015 (AFP)
Around 4,000 miners demonstrated in Athens Thursday to protest job cuts they fear will result from the hard-left government's opposition to continued exploitati...
China March exports dive as economy seen slowing further
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
China suffered an across-the-board decline in trade in March, the government said Monday, days ahead of GDP data expected to show another slowdown in the world'...
'Civil war' divides families in row over Greek goldmine
Apr 12, 2015 (AFP)
Scrawled on the walls of homes in the village of Megali Panagia in northern Greece are angry slogans that show how much this picturesque community has been torn...
Hong Kong defends US dollar peg as stocks surge
Apr 10, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong's de facto central bank intervened in forex markets for the first time in eight months to protect its currency's peg to the US dollar as a massive sur...
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