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China factory activity picks up in August

Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)

The figures came as China registered steady inflation but slowing foreign trade growth in the previous month. The latest purchasing managers index (PMI), a gaug...

Prosecutors appeal against ruling on Samsung heir

Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)

Lee Jae-Yong, the de-facto head of Samsung Electronics, was found guilty last week of bribery, perjury and other charges related to payments made by Samsung to ...

Brazil seeks buyers in China in privatization wave

Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)

Temer has announced plans to privatize 58 state firms in a bid to spark an economic revival after two years of recession. "We hope China may be interested in ta...

Wanda shares tumble on rumours chairman detained

Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)

Wanda and other Chinese conglomerates that made a succession of multi-billion-dollar overseas investments in recent years have been under official scrutiny for ...

Israelis log out of high-tech jobs for a life offline

Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)

With a smile of satisfaction, he contemplates his "organic basket" ready to be delivered to a customer. Goshen, a graduate of Israel's prestigious Technion tech...

Britain's poetic shipping forecast turns 150

Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)

The Shipping Forecast was first transmitted by telegraph and then by the BBC starting in the 1920s when it became a daily fixture for listeners. Sea areas with ...

Australia to regulate virtual currency exchanges like Bitcoin

Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)

The changes came two weeks after AUSTRAC took the country's biggest bank, the Commonwealth, to court for alleged "serious and systemic non-compliance" of money ...

US launches formal trade investigation into China

Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)

"On Monday, President Trump instructed me to look into Chinese laws, policies, and practices which may be harming American intellectual property rights, innovat...

Archaeologists discover ancient trade routes in Vietnam

Aug 18, 2017 (UPI)

As revealed by several excavations, a vast network of manufacturing hubs and trade routes moved large amounts of goods from settlement to settlement between 4,5...

US in 'economic war' with China, says Trump strategist Bannon

Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)

"To me the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that," he said in the interview with the American Prospect, a left-lea...

Trump renews attack on Amazon, claiming 'jobs lost'

Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)

Trump, who has criticized Amazon in the past, offered no specific facts to back up his argument. He launched his tirade in an early-morning tweet as he came und...

Warning from history: Could Japan-style crash hit China

Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)

The similarities are not lost on Beijing: President Xi Jinping has commissioned a study to help China avoid Japan's pitfalls, according to Bloomberg, as growth ...

China's debt on a 'dangerous trajectory': IMF

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

The International Monetary Fund, which has repeatedly warned China over its ballooning debt, said in a new report that the world's second largest economy must t...

Bianca Jagger leads Nicaragua canal protest

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

The 72-year-old is a former actress and ex-wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger. She joined dozens of demonstrators who marched in La Fonseca, a remote vil...

China warns of retaliation as Trump launches trade probe

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump's decision to order the investigation comes on top of strains between the two nations over how to handle Beijing's ally North Korea. Trum...

Guam officials 'ecstatic' as North Korea holds off attack

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

"There doesn't appear to be any indication, based on what we're hearing, that there will be any missiles attacking in the near future or in the distant future,"...

China industrial output slows sharply in July

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

The figures come as the authorities have sought to tighten regulations to tame debt as well as reduce excess capacity left over from massive government-backed i...

Trump ups ante with China, orders inquiry over trade ties

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

Trump signed a memorandum directing US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine whether Chinese policies hurt American investors or companies -- with...

Australia's Crown says all staff held in China now free

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

Mogul James Packer's gaming company said the last of the 19 current and former Crown employees had been set free after being held for 10 months. "Crown is pleas...

Nepal revives railways as China, India vye for influence

Aug 13, 2017 (AFP)

The railway to India was a lifeline for the small southern frontier town of Janakpur, used to import everything from sweets to clothes and cosmetics and fuellin...