TRADE WARS - INDO DAILY

Chinese 'blind spot' for Western readers

Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)

A potent mix of state censorship, conservative publishing choices and scant translation means international readers are given a narrow view of contemporary Chin...

Germany's Merkel due in China for eurozone talks

Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)

German leader Angela Merkel was due to hold top-level talks Thursday on her second visit to China this year, with Europe's debt crisis taking centre stage as it...

China firms to invest $8.6 bln in Indonesia smelters

Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)

Three Chinese firms will invest up to $8.6 billion in Indonesian smelters, Jakarta's industry minister said Thursday, as a ban on the export of raw minerals fro...

Growth in Chinese overseas investment slows

Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)

China said Thursday growth in overseas direct investment slowed sharply last year as the global economic recovery remained weak and amid financial turmoil in Eu...

Finland seeks new cleantech for shipping

Aug 30, 2012 (UPI)

Finland says it will push hard to fund new green technologies as a key way to cope with looming requirements to reduce sulfur emissions from shipping. Finnish M...

No end for Brazil federal workers' strike

Aug 29, 2012 (UPI)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's political standing is coming under threat from an unlikely quarter -- more than 400,000 federal workers on a war path to pu...

Egypt's new leader visits China seeking investment

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

Egypt's president met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday, seeking in his first state visit outside the Arab world to win badly needed investment and ...

Australia's resource boom on last leg?

Aug 27, 2012 (UPI)

Australia's mining boom is far from over, a government official said. "The truth of the matter is, according to private forecasters, we're not even halfway thro...

Russia's Rusal to cut production as profit falls

Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)

Russian aluminium giant Rusal said Monday it would cut production after seeing its net profit fall 95.25 percent in the first six months of the year, hit by fal...

India invites Chinese companies to invest

Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)

India on Monday invited China to invest in its new flagship manufacturing zones as part of a push to broaden commercial links and cut a ballooning trade deficit...

Trade to limit harm of East Asia island spats

Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)

China, Japan and South Korea are loath to let tensions over sea claims damage their sputtering economies, analysts say, but the emotional disputes could still s...

Wen says China needs to stabilise exports: report

Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday that China needed more policies to stabilise the country's exports, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Wen, speaking duri...

China blamed for fake goods seized in Italy

Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)

Italy's police said Saturday they have seized so far this year 52 million counterfeit items, including train tickets, smartphones, condoms and detergents, with ...

Argentina under fire for protectionism

Aug 23, 2012 (UPI)

Argentina is under fire for increasing protectionist barriers and fighting criticism with countercharges against nations that complain about the trade policies ...

Record eurozone trade surplus, analysts divided on outlook

Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)

New EU data out on Friday showed the eurozone logging a record trade surplus and bumper cash earnings in what some analysts said was evidence that austerity and...

Football: Maradona in $3.2 million China legal action

Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)

Argentine football great Diego Maradona attended a Beijing court hearing Friday which was considering his $3.2 million image rights claim against two Chinese In...

Foreign investment in China declines in July

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Foreign direct investment in China fell 8.7 percent in July, the government said Thursday, as the economy continues to feel the pinch of slowing global growth a...

Gold demand down to 2-year low: industry report

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Global demand for gold has fallen to its lowest level in two years owing to less buying in the main markets of India and China, despite rising demand from centr...

Paraguay plays down suspension by Unasur

Aug 16, 2012 (UPI)

Paraguayan President Federico Franco played down the landlocked country's continued diplomatic isolation since he took office after the Union of South American ...

Asia eyes Brazil's growing consumer market

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

With Europe and the United States in the economic doldrums, Asian manufacturers are setting their sights on Brazil's lucrative consumer market ahead of the 2014...