Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics Asia Times | By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement. What is new is China's mu...
China assesses its gold strategy Asia Times | By Russell Hsiao | Chinese leaders convening in Beijing for the annual plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) - China's ceremonial legislature - this week will, among other things, hammer out a blueprint for the ascendancy of the country's currency, the yuan (or renminbi). | China...
China assesses its gold strategy Asia Times | By Russell Hsiao | Chinese leaders convening in Beijing for the annual plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) - China's ceremonial legislature - this week will, among other things, hammer out a blueprint for the ascendancy of the c...
China's Geely Secures Financing to Buy Volvo: Report ABC News March 10, 2010 | STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The parent of China's Geely Automobile has secured financing to buy Ford-owned Volvo cars for about 15 billion Swedish crowns ($2.10 billion), a Swedish business daily reported on Wednesday. | Dagens Industri, c...
Foreign investors help Pakistan stocks gain Gulf News | Karachi: Pakistani stocks ended up at a near two-week closing high on buying by foreign investors which boosted local investor confidence, dealers said. | The Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index KSE rose 46.84 points, or 0.48 pe...
China banking watchdog to tighten monitoring on non-banking financing China Daily | BEIJING - China would step up work to monitor non-banking financing, said the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Tuesday in a statement on its website. | More focus would be put on businesses in connection with trust companies and the real ...
FirstRand results satisfactory, China partnership on course Business Report | By Mzwandile Jacks | Submit your comment | FirstRand, South Africa's third-biggest bank, had completed several "significant transactions" following the signing of an agreement with China Construction Bank (CCB), chief executive Sizwe Nxasana...
China to tighten monitoring on non-banking financing China Daily | BEIJING - China would step up work to monitor non-banking financing, said the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Tuesday in a statement on its website. | More focus would be put on businesses in connection with trust companies and the real...
China looks to narrow city-rural development gap Houston Chronicle | BEIJING - China is boosting representation for its dwindling rural population in the national legislature as part of a new push to narrow the development gap between city and cou...
Shire chairman raises £1.5m from disposal Money Week | Matthew Emmens, the chairman of pharma company Shire, has raised nearly £1.5m from a share sale. | Emmens sold 33,302 American Depositary Shares (ADSs) at an average price of $66.44. Each ADS is equivalent to three ordinary shares. The selling pri...
China, India sign on to Copenhagen climate change accord, but with reservations Hartford Courant AMSTERDAM (AP) — joined on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions. | The official messages to the U.N. climate change secretariat did little to ease the pessimism that...
Sugar retail prices come down The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Improved supply and higher output figures for 2010-11 pressured down sugar retail prices countrywide over the last month to the Rs 37-39/kg range, down noticeably from a high Rs 50-odd/kg last year end and early this year. | As compared to...
China tries microblogging top political event of the year, with hiccups here and there Hartford Courant (AP) — So this is how you get through biggest political event of the year: "Sit still, stare toward the front, pretend like you're looking but you're really not, pretend like you're listening but you're really not ... make your brain blank." | ...
China reaffirms to keep yuan basically stable China Daily | BEIJING - China will keep the exchange rate of the renminbi, or the country's currency yuan, basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level, Yi Gang, vice governor of China's central bank, said Tuesday. | China will stick to the "established policy" of "steadily advancing the convertibility of yuan under capital accounts" despite the rising ...
One-ninth of Nepal faces starvation, UN warns Samachaar Kathmandu: One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned Wednesday. | Nearly half of Nepal's 75 districts, mainly in the west and mountain regions, are grappling with food shortages. An additional $123.5 million is urgently needed to assist more than 3.4 million vulnerable people in Nepal, the UN Office for the Co...
