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Chile fines British-South African copper mine $4.5 million
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
Chilean authorities Tuesday fined mining giant Anglo American Sur $4.5 million dollars for violating environmental rules at its El Soldado copper mine. They sai...
China fines insurance firms $18 mn for price monopoly
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
A total of 23 Chinese insurance firms have colluded to fix fees, authorities said Tuesday, slapping them with a total of $18 million in fines in the government'...
Malaysia refuses New Zealand activist entry
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
Malaysia on Monday refused entry to a New Zealand anti-mining activist who had previously been arrested for joining a protest against a rare earths processing p...
Samsung denies child labour at Chinese supplier
Aug 29, 2014 (AFP)
South Korea's Samsung Electronics has refuted fresh allegations by a labour protection watchdog that one of its suppliers in China hired child workers. New York...
Alibaba earnings leap on cusp of stock market debut
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
Just weeks ahead of its expected debut on the New York Stock Exchange, Chinese Internet colossus Alibaba reported that its quarterly profit nearly tripled on su...
China's Microsoft probe extends to browser, media player
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
The head of the Chinese government agency investigating Microsoft for alleged monopoly actions said Tuesday the probe includes the way the US technology giant d...
China and Mongolia target $10bn trade by 2020
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
China and Mongolia set out plans to almost double trade to $10 billion by 2020 as Chinese President Xi Jinping began a two-day visit to the neighbouring state, ...
Japan trade deficit narrows on export pick-up
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
A rebound in exports helped narrow Japan's trade deficit in July, data showed Wednesday, but the shortfall still came in worse than expected after a marked slow...
Australia tycoon blasts Chinese government 'mongrels'
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Outspoken Australian tycoon Clive Palmer has labelled the Chinese government "mongrels" who "shoot their own people" in a televised tirade that was criticised b...
Standard Chartered fined $300 mn over laundering controls
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
New York state's banking regulator hit Standard Chartered Bank with a $300 million fine and restrictions on its dollar-clearing business Tuesday for not detecti...
Foreign investment in China slumps in July: govt
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China dropped by more than a sixth year-on-year to a two-year low in July, the government said Monday, but denied any link ...
US dominates Chinese world university rankings
Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)
US universities dominated the top 20 in an annual ranking of global educational institutions released by a Chinese organisation Friday, with Harvard remaining i...
Bald ambition: Chinese county exports human hair to Africa
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
Long, black and lucrative: sacks bulging with human hair spill onto the streets of a rural county whose farmers have helped make China the world's biggest expor...
China court jails British, US investigators hired by GSK
Aug 08, 2014 (AFP)
A British investigator once hired by scandal-hit pharmaceutical giant GSK in China was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for breaching privacy laws, a S...
Judge rejects Silicon Valley anti-poaching settlement
Aug 08, 2014 (AFP)
A federal judge Friday rejected a plan to compensate employees affected by an "anti-poaching" agreement involving Silicon Valley tech giants Apple, Google, Inte...
Chinese workers hurt in PNG mine attack: report
Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)
Five Chinese workers were hurt after armed villagers stormed a nickel mine in Papua New Guinea, damaging equipment and forcing it to close, a report said Thursd...
Standard Chartered faces new US money-laundering probe
Aug 06, 2014 (AFP)
Standard Chartered confirmed Wednesday that it faces fresh US fines over alleged breaches in its anti-money laundering systems, two years after it paid massive ...
Kenya launches giant port construction with $480m deal
Aug 01, 2014 (AFP)
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta launched Friday a construction deal for the first berths in a proposed multi-billion dollar port, the day after ordering vast tr...
China confirms Microsoft probe for 'monopoly' actions
Jul 29, 2014 (AFP)
China is investigating Microsoft for allegedly operating a monopoly in its market, the government said Tuesday, as it took aim at the US software giant over bus...
Chinese regulators visit Microsoft offices: Dow Jones
Jul 28, 2014 (AFP)
Officials from China's corporate regulator paid visits Monday to software giant Microsoft's offices in four cities in the country, Dow Jones Newswires reported,...
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