TRADE WARS - INDO DAILY

Chinese workers stage new protest in Singapore

Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)

Two crane operators staged a high-rise protest at a construction site in Singapore on Thursday, its second industrial incident involving mainland Chinese worker...

Beijing to allow visa-free transit trips

Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)

China will allow transit passengers from 45 countries including the US, Canada and most members of the EU to spend up to 72 hours in Beijing without a visa from...

S. Korea's LG to appeal European fine for price-fixing

Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)

LG Electronics vowed on Thursday to appeal against a European Commission fine of nearly 500 million euros ($653 million) for price-fixing, calling the penalty u...

China island row takes bite out of Japan tourism

Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)

The sound of Mandarin-speaking tourists and the cash tills they set ringing have become rare in Tokyo's upmarket Ginza district, retailers say, since a flare-up...

Activists slam Singapore crackdown on China strikers

Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)

Activists expressed outrage Wednesday over Singapore's crackdown on Chinese bus drivers who staged the city-state's first industrial strike in 26 years to deman...

Taiwan concerned over China high-tech talent poaching

Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan Wednesday voiced concern over "malicious talent poaching" in reaction to a report that a high-tech firm run by former Chinese president Jiang Zemin's son...

Paraguay's diplomatic isolation dissipates

Dec 05, 2012 (UPI)

Paraguay's diplomatic isolation is fast becoming a thing of the past as President Federico Franco receives the Organization of American States endorsement and a...

Adani set to begin mining in Australia

Dec 03, 2012 (UPI)

Indian conglomerate the Adani Group said its $10 billion Carmichael coal block in Queensland, Australia, would start production in 2016. "We are going to be the...

SEC charges top accounting firms over China data

Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)

US market regulators charged the China affiliates of five top accounting firms Monday with violation of securities laws for refusing to provide audit data relat...

Singapore deports striking Chinese bus drivers

Dec 02, 2012 (AFP)

Singapore on Sunday deported 29 mainland Chinese bus drivers involved in the city-state's first industrial strike in 26 years. The drivers, working for state-li...

Suu Kyi to lead probe into China-backed Myanmar mine

Dec 01, 2012 (AFP)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will lead a probe into a crackdown on a protest against a Chinese-backed copper mine which will also assess the futur...

Russia as WTO Member Must Resort to Sophisticated Methods

Nov 30, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

November marks a symbolic date which is very important though - 100 days of Russia's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). "We should not underestim...

Australia's Lynas fires up Malaysian plant

Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)

Australian miner Lynas Corp said Friday it had begun processing rare earths at a controversial new plant in Malaysia after being delayed for more than a year du...

Australia's resources spending increases

Nov 29, 2012 (UPI)

Australia has reported record spending in major resources and energy projects. In its Resources and Energy Major Projects report this week, Australia's Bureau o...

Pena Nieto looking for trade partners

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

Drugs and guns gave way to manufactured goods and migrant workers Tuesday on Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto's tour of North American capitals. U.S. ...

Myanmar protesters ordered to end mine demo

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds of villagers, students and monks on Wednesday defied a government order to end a protest at a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northern Myan...

Norquist ready for immigration reform

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

Another major conservative voiced support for U.S. immigration reform this week but this one has been calling for it for a while, albeit not as loudly as he has...

Italy, China sign deals worth $1.27 bn

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

Italian and Chinese firms signed deals worth $1.27 billion (984 million euros) on Wednesday in Rome at talks attended by Prime Minister Mario Monti and senior C...

Smuggling surges in China: state media

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

Customs officials in China are grappling with an increase in smuggling, particularly banned items such as drugs, weapons and endangered animals, state media rep...

Myanmar copper mine protesters charged: police

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

Myanmar has charged a group of activists who protested against a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine with defaming the state, police said Tuesday. The eigh...