Category: China
China’s next export: Starbucks coffee
Starbucks Corp has launched a new brand of coffee grown by farmers in China and said it hopes to bring the blend to stores all over the world. The Seattle-based company, [...]
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China plans global media-propaganda expansion
China’s Communist Party wants stepped-up international propaganda to match the nation’s rising might, a move that would include new television channels and [...]
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China economy grew to world’s 3rd largest
China’s economy grew to the world’s third-largest in 2007, new data showed Wednesday, another milestone in the country’s stunning ascent in the global [...]
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30 years on, will China keep its promises?
Hardly two-years after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (and Mao Zedong’s death), a diminutive man climbed the rostrum for the Third Plenary Session [...]
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China awards 3G licenses to state-owned operators
China issued the first of its long-awaited licenses for third-generation mobile phones Wednesday, with the licenses going to three state-owned mobile phone operators, [...]
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China may put new curbs on overseas investments
China’s Ministry of Commerce may ask Chinese companies to apply for approval from the ministry if they want to invest US$100 million or more overseas, it said in new [...]
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China’s sovereign wealth fund to slow investment: report
China’s 200 billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund will slow down its investing pace after being stung by major investments that turned sour in the world financial [...]
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China manufacturing sector close to recession
China’s manufacturing sector is close to a technical recession after output contracted at a record pace in December, a leading independent brokerage said Friday. The [...]
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Crackdown lays bare China’s harder stance
China celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights last month by detaining prominent dissidents across the country. Their apparent [...]
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China says ‘Pakistan not involved in Mumbai attack’
Chinese media claim that India’s home grown militant group calling itself “Deccan Mujahideen” carried out last November’s Mumbai attacks. Xinhua said [...]
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Government officials call on China state-firms to bolster ailing economy
Senior government officials have publicly called on China’s state-owned sector to increase its dominance in the economy in response to rapidly cooling growth and [...]
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China to begin yuan-settlement trials
The yuan will be used in transactions with neighbouring trade partners as part of a pilot project -in what could be the first step on the road to making it an international [...]
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China’s hammered industry drags down Asia
Chinese industrial companies are being hit hard by the cooling economy and plunging commodities prices, with profit growth slowing sharply this year and more declines [...]
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Thousands of Guangdong companies close as China’s exports stall
Slowing exports forced closure of 8,513 companies in China’s southern Guangdong province in October, more than in the first three quarters of 2008, state-owned Xinhua [...]
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China promises economic assistance to Taiwan
China offered Saturday to help Taiwan boost its economy if it needs assistance to weather the world economic slowdown. The statement at a meeting between China’s [...]
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