TRADE WARS - INDO DAILY

China, Canada bilateral investment booms, trade lags: study

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese foreign investment in Canada has boomed over the last decade but trade lags, according to a study by both governments that was realased on Wednesday and...

China approves Wal-Mart control of online supermarket

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

China said Tuesday it has approved a plan by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to gain control of a local online supermarket, but imposed conditions on the deal over concern...

Italy steel mill appeals order to stop production

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

Europe's biggest steel mill launched an appeal on Tuesday against a judge's order to halt production while a clean-up operation of polluting chemicals at the IL...

Coldwell Banker teams up with BOC to entice rich Chinese

Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)

Coldwell Banker France said Monday it had teamed up with Bank of China to meet the growing appetite of rich Chinese for upmarket French property. "France now re...

Japan growth slows as exports struggle

Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)

Growth in export-driven Japan slowed in the three months to June, official data showed Monday, with the debt crisis in Europe and the unsteady global economy cr...

Italian PM to dispatch ministers to disputed steel mill

Aug 12, 2012 (AFP)

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will send three ministers to Taranto, southern Italy, to try and prevent a shutdown of Europe's biggest steel mill, Italian m...

Outside View: Of horses and narco-kingdoms

Aug 10, 2012 (UPI)

Following a 2-year investigation, U.S. prosecutors have submitted a mindboggling 30,000 pages of documentation and 2,000 recorded phone calls that paint an exte...

China says exports, imports slow in July

Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)

China's exports and imports slowed for the second consecutive month in July, official data showed Friday, highlighting worsening conditions in the world's secon...

Zambia reassures China after mine boss killing

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

The killing of a Chinese mine boss last weekend has left Zambian President Michael Sata's government rushing to reassure foreign investors on their safety, whil...

Taiwan, China sign investment pact amid protests

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

China and Taiwan signed a landmark investment pact on Thursday as hundreds of protesters voiced their anger over the island's ever-closer economic ties with its...

Taiwan, China to sign investment pact amid protests

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan will sign a key investment pact with China in top-level talks in Taipei on Thursday amid protests from anti-Beijing critics against closer economic ties ...

Malaysian exports sustained by China, Japan demand

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

Malaysia's June export growth slowed to 5.4 percent but rising demand from regional heavyweights China and Japan helped offset shrinking shipments to struggling...

Italian steel giant ordered to upgrade but plant kept open

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

An Italian court Tuesday ordered the country's biggest steel plant to clean up its act but did not call for closure despite fears that chemicals spewed by the u...

Brazil military combats crime on four frontiers

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

Brazil is engaged in a vast military operation to crack down on smuggling on its borders with Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, slated to run until late...

Global fears shackle India's outsourcing job-hoppers

Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)

The employee turnover rate in India's notoriously job-hopping outsourcing sector has fallen sharply as a weak global economy hits the flagship industry, a study...

Philippine mining reforms ignored at gold-rush site

Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippine government wants to close thousands of small-scale mines blamed for environmental devastation, but Reynaldo Elejorde insists his chaotic gold-rus...

Paraguay row set to weaken Mercosur pact

Aug 03, 2012 (UPI)

Paraguay's escalating diplomatic conflict with neighbors over its suspension from Mercosur and threatened exclusion from the Organization of American States sho...

Kenyans weigh cost of Chinese investment

Aug 03, 2012 (UPI)

Mwaura Kimani swiftly engages and alternates the gears as he speeds down the Thika Superhighway. A matatu (taxi bus) driver for more than 8 years, Kimani recall...

Australian opposition wants more foreign investment scrutiny

Aug 03, 2012 (AFP)

Australia's conservative opposition on Friday earmarked tighter scrutiny of foreign investment in agriculture as a priority if the party is elected to governmen...

Thousands march in rival protests at Italian steel giant

Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)

Thousands of Italians took to the streets in the southern city of Taranto Thursday in rival protests over the closure of one of Europe's largest steel plants du...