TRADE WARS - INDO DAILY

Hong Kong lawmakers demand inquiry into city leader

Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)

Hong Kong's democratic lawmakers called for an official inquiry into the city's embattled leader Wednesday, saying he "has no political integrity" after receivi...

APEC leaders meet amid rival trade proposals, tensions

Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)

Leaders of more than half the world's economy gather in Beijing next week for the annual APEC forum, with China and the US pushing rival trade agreements as a w...

Google guns for 300 mn new Indian local language users

Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)

Search giant Google announced Monday the creation of a new Hindi-language website in an ambitious bid to add 300 million Indian Internet users by 2017 and bridg...

France's Hollande in Canada to drum up trade

Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)

President Francois Hollande began the first visit to Canada by a French leader in a quarter of a century on Sunday, flying in to the country's oil-rich west to ...

Mandarin compulsory as Portuguese town seeks foothold in China

Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)

Five hundred years after the Portuguese became the first Europeans to establish sea trade with China, a town in northern Portugal is counting on its youth to se...

Tanzania to start major port construction in 2015

Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)

Tanzania will launch construction of a major Chinese-funded sea port in 2015 to boost the trading capacity of the east African nation, a presidential statement ...

China and 20 other countries sign up to regional bank

Oct 24, 2014 (AFP)

China and 20 other countries moved forward on Friday towards setting up an Asian infrastructure lender seen as a counterweight to Western-backed international d...

Questions over China-backed infrastructure bank: ADB

Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)

Several questions remain to be answered about an Asian infrastructure lender proposed by Beijing, the Japanese head of the existing Asian Development Bank said ...

Manufacturing moving from China to US: survey

Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)

Large manufacturers are increasingly moving production back to the United States from China, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group released T...

Italy keen to take a fast boat to China

Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)

Seven hundred years after Marco Polo showed how it was done, Italy is once again knocking on China's door looking to do business. This time around the quest is ...

Social trust eroded in Chinese product-tampering incident

Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)

For about a decade, Chinese consumers weren't getting what they paid for when they purchased Wuchang, a special brand of gourmet rice that has a peculiar scent....

Australia fast-tracks visas for super rich

Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)

Australia said Tuesday it would introduce a "premium investor visa" to give immigrants permanent residency after a year if they invest Aus$15 million (US$13 mil...

Virtual currency founder pleads not guilty in New York

Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)

A man accused of founding an online underworld bank that allegedly laundered $6 billion for criminals, including child pornographers and drug traffickers, plead...

Romania lifts immunity for ex-minister in Microsoft probe

Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)

Romania's parliament on Monday voted to lift the immunity of a former minister targeted in a multi-million-euro corruption probe involving bribes and kickbacks ...

China's Li discusses Russia deals ahead of Putin talks

Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang was set Monday to meet President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow as Russia struggles with its most serious standoff wi...

Virtual currency founder extradited to face US charges

Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)

The founder of virtual currency firm Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky, was extradited Friday from Spain to face US criminal charges for operating what officials...

China and Germany vow to deepen ties at Li-Merkel summit

Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)

China and Germany vowed to build up already massive business ties at their third summit this year in Berlin Friday, amid tougher times for Asia and Europe's big...

Egypt raises over 8 bln USD for new canal project

Oct 10, 2014 (XNA)

Egyptians' purchases of the New Suez Canal investment certificates on Monday hit 60 billion Egyptian pounds (about 8.4 billion U.S. dollars), an amount the auth...

Mobile wallet adoption years away: eMarketer

Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)

Industry tracker eMarketer on Thursday said that use of smartphones as wallets will jump in the US next year, but shoppers won't be quick to abandon cash or cre...

What Google's tax row with France says about income tax

Oct 08, 2014 (UPI)

Google is in a row with France about how much corporate taxes it pays. Like the Obama Administration's outrage about businesses moving headquarters abroad, this...