TRADE WARS - INDO DAILY

Anglo American Platinum plunges into deep loss

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Strike-scarred AngloAmerican Platinum reported Monday that it lurched into huge losses revealing deep damage from a tough 2012 and warned it has to absolutely t...

Walker's World: New currency wars

Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)

Ten years ago this week, one British pound bought 1.6 euros. Today it buys 1.15 euros, which means British exports are dramatically cheaper and Britain's import...

Japan bookings to China still falling amid island row

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Bookings on Japanese package tours to China for February and March are down around 80 percent, tourism industry data showed Monday, as a months-old territorial ...

Phosphorus used in Myanmar protest raid: lawyers

Feb 01, 2013 (AFP)

An independent investigation into a crackdown on a copper mine protest in Myanmar that left dozens injured has found that phosphorus was used by security forces...

China steel industry says profits plunge

Feb 01, 2013 (AFP)

The combined profits of China's major steelmakers crashed by more than 98 percent in 2012 as growth in the economy of the world's largest steel producer slowed,...

EU 'better than North America' for China firms: survey

Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese firms consider the European Union as good or better an investment destination than North America, the EU chamber of commerce in China said Thursday, des...

Brazil's slow growth bad for sport events

Jan 31, 2013 (UPI)

Brazil's economic downturn is worrying planners that it will impact on preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Olympics in 2016. Fewer jobs were create...

China mining firm falls on Hong Kong trading debut

Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)

China's Chinalco Mining Corporation fell more than 11 percent on its Hong Kong trading debut Thursday after raising $397 million in the city's first major initi...

Pakistan approves port transfer to China

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

Pakistan on Wednesday approved a deal transferring from Singapore to China the management of the strategically located deep-sea Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea. ...

Despite optimism, tough road for immigration reform

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

Hope over prospects for immigration reform, a bipartisan glow unheard of in polarized Washington, has for now suppressed political wildcards that could yet blun...

China's looming worker shortage threatens economy

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

China's demographic timebomb is ticking much louder with the first fall in its labour pool for decades, analysts say, highlighting the risk that the country gro...

Japan PM suggests summit with China

Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday suggested a summit with China would improve a relationship that has been badly troubled for months. The latest sign...

World tourist numbers exceed 1.0 billion in 2012: UN

Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)

International tourist arrivals exceeded one billion for the first time last year despite ongoing global economic uncertainty and numbers will rise further in 20...

Increasing problems for Tavan Tolgoi mine

Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)

Mongolia's massive state-owned coal mine, the Tavan Tolgoi, is facing increasing problems. Last week, Erdenes-Tavan Tolgoi, the state-owned mining company that ...

Slow progress in Latam, EU trade talks

Jan 28, 2013 (UPI)

Argentine protectionist tendencies and Brazil's economic downturn seem set to determine the direction of a much delayed trade deal between South America's Merco...

French/Chinese shipping groups CMA CGM, CMHI unveil tie up

Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)

French container shipping company CMA CGM has sold 49 percent of its Terminal Link unit in Marseille, southern France, to China Merchants Holdings International...

Foreign visitors flock back to post-disaster Japan

Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2012 surged 34.6 percent from the previous year as the tourism sector rebounded after the 2011 tsunami and nuclear di...

Japan logs record trade deficit in 2012

Jan 24, 2013 (AFP)

Japan on Thursday logged a record trade deficit for 2012 as exports were hit by a bitter diplomatic spat with its biggest market China and plunging demand in de...

Reding: EU won't renegotiate free movement deal with Switzerland

Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)

The EU would not renegotiate its bilateral agreements with Switzerland should Swiss voters restrict immigration, a European Commission official has warned. EC V...

Apple, Google chiefs face grilling on 'no-poaching'

Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)

Apple chief Tim Cook and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing not to "...