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Trade indigestion: US slaps hefty duty on Chinese MSG
May 02, 2014 (AFP)
The United States on Friday hit imports of food enhancer MSG from China with high duties, saying the country is dumping the product in the US market at below co...
China pushes for rival trans-Pacific trade deal
Apr 30, 2014 (AFP)
China is pressing for a vast Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior official said Wednesday, as a rival US-led deal that excludes the Asian giant runs into...
US: China's theft of trade secrets a major concern
Apr 30, 2014 (AFP)
Washington said Wednesday that China's efforts to steal US trade secrets are of "significant concern" as it again listed the country as a major violator of inte...
Huge China strike peters out as workers cite intimidation
Apr 28, 2014 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of employees at a Chinese factory making shoes for Nike, Adidas and others returned to work Monday after one of the country's biggest recent s...
China intervenes over days-old strike at shoe factory
Apr 25, 2014 (AFP)
China has ordered owners of a huge Taiwan-backed shoe factory to address striking workers' grievances about unpaid social security, an official said Friday. Tho...
Brits abandon Spain, Chinese flock there: data
Apr 22, 2014 (AFP)
Spain's population shrank in 2013 for a second year with foreigners including many Britons abandoning the country, although the number of Chinese there grew, of...
Chinese foreign minister starts Latin America tour
Apr 21, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Cuba Sunday, the first stop on a tour of four Latin America countries. The purpose of the stop in Havana was to pave the...
Chinese gold demand may rise 20% by 2017: industry body
Apr 15, 2014 (AFP)
China's annual demand for gold could jump around 20 percent by 2017 as more of its increasingly wealthy population seek new ways to make money, the World Gold C...
China Q1 growth slows to 7.3%: AFP survey
Apr 14, 2014 (AFP)
China's economic expansion slowed in the first three months of this year, according to an AFP survey, and remains on track for its worst annual performance in n...
Swedish city introduces payment by hand scanning
Apr 14, 2014 (AFP)
Hand scanning has become an alternative payment method for people in a city in southern Sweden, researchers at Lund University said Monday. Vein scanning termin...
China consortium buys Peru copper mine stake for $5.85 bn
Apr 14, 2014 (AFP)
China Minmetals said Monday that a consortium led by one of its subsidiaries MMG has agreed to buy Glencore Xstrata Plc's stake in the Las Bambas copper mine pr...
Energy efficiency a trump card for German tech exports
Apr 13, 2014 (AFP)
An often-ignored aspect of Germany's green energy transition is the one that has most helped its export industry; energy efficiency, the new hallmark of the cou...
Taiwan demonstrators end parliament seizure, threaten more protests
Apr 10, 2014 (AFP)
Student activists Thursday ended an unprecedented three-week occupation of Taiwan's parliament in protest at a service trade pact with China, but threatened mor...
China imports, exports slump in March
Apr 10, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese exports and imports fell sharply in March, data showed Thursday, as officials noted that the world's second-largest economy faces headwinds from tougher...
Australia's NAB cuts ties with virtual currencies
Apr 10, 2014 (AFP)
One of Australia's biggest banks confirmed Thursday it was distancing itself from digital currencies after reviewing its risk profile. The National Australia Ba...
Americans, Germans clash on US-EU trade standards
Apr 09, 2014 (AFP)
Americans and Germans are broadly supportive of a US-EU free-trade pact under negotiation, but differ over details, especially forging similar goods and service...
HP to pay $108 million in US to settle bribery probes
Apr 09, 2014 (AFP)
US computer giant Hewlett-Packard agreed to pay $108 million to settle investigations that it paid bribes to win public contracts in Russia, Poland and Mexico, ...
BoJ chief doubts Bitcoin's future as a currency
Apr 08, 2014 (AFP)
The head of the Bank of Japan on Tuesday cast doubt on Bitcoin's future, saying the scandal-plagued digital unit "cannot be a currency" unless it proves its rel...
Japan posts first current account surplus in five months
Apr 08, 2014 (AFP)
Japan posted its first current account surplus in five months in February, helped by a narrower trade deficit and higher returns on investment abroad, governmen...
Copper price bounces on Chile quake; oil hit by Libya
Apr 04, 2014 (AFP)
Copper bounced this week on supply fears after a vast earthquake in top producer Chile, while Brent oil dived on the prospect of rebounding Libyan crude supplie...
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