Category: China
China threatens survival of fishing industry
An international agency has warned that China is using vast subsidies to threaten the survivability of the fishing industry in the Western and Central Pacific – which [...]
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China promises more help to international humanitarian efforts
China has promised to make further contributions to international humanitarian efforts, President Xi Jinping said on Monday. The commitment was made by Xi when he met with [...]
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China, Russia pledge to boost region-to-region cooperation
China’s top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Monday met with Mikhail Babich, a Russian presidential representative, pledging to boost region-to-region cooperation [...]
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News Analysis: China’s poultry prices to rise as H7N9 wanes
Prices of poultry products in China could rise sharply as early as next month as the waning H7N9 virus helps consumers regain confidence in poultry meat and eggs, experts [...]
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The real roots of China-Japan tensions – Washington Post
China and Japan, the world’s second and third largest economies, do not get along. Increasingly noisy nationalist movements in both countries seem to consider the other [...]
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Chinese Premier on first foreign trip to demonstrate diplomacy of new leadership
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to pay official visits to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany next week, his first foreign trip as China’s new head of government. As [...]
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Chinese premier to visit India, Pakistan, Switzerland, Germany
Premier Li Keqiang will pay official visits to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany from May 19 to 27, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday. Li will make the visits [...]
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Chinese President meets Mozambican President
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza, hailing the African country as an all-weather friend. Xi recalled his meeting with [...]
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China’s economy grows like it’s 1999
New reports that the Chinese government is developing a large scale strategy to avert financial system catastrophe provide clear indication that the Chinese investment story [...]
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China ‘shadow banking’ growing fast
China’s shadow banking activities have risen nearly 70 percent over the past two years and now total more than half the size of the world’s second-largest [...]
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KFC China sales crash 36pct in April on bird flu fears
Sales of fast food giant KFC in China slumped an estimated 36 percent last month, according to parent Yum! Brands, as consumers shunned chicken due to the H7N9 bird flu [...]
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Melting Ice Cap Draws China, Japan to Seek Arctic Riches
Japan, China and South Korea are seeking to expand their influence in the Arctic as melting ice caused by global warming offers potentially lucrative access to resources and [...]
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Heavy debt weighs on China’s renewable energy sector – The Age
Renewable energy companies from China and Hong Kong need to repay $3.5 billion of debt this year, prompting global investors to fret that another issuer will follow Suntech [...]
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China industrial production up 9.3pct in April
Industrial output in China rose 9.3 percent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday, accelerating from March but below market expectations, [...]
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China unlikely to spur global growth
Even the most bullish of China watchers must realise by now that their favourite economy is not up to the task of revitalising flagging global growth. Weaker than expected [...]
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