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Social networks make push as shopping destinations

Oct 05, 2014 (AFP)

They're not just for sharing any more: Facebook and Twitter are now looking to play a bigger role in shopping. Both major social networks have unveiled plans to...

Chinese firm secures mining deal in nickel-rich New Caledonia

Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese group JinPei has signed a pact with a firm in nickel-rich New Caledonia to mine and process the ore after the world's top producer Indonesia imposed a b...

Mainland Chinese shoppers stay clear of Hong Kong

Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)

Sleek luxury store fronts plastered with political slogans and shops eerily empty of customers: the scenes in protest-gripped Hong Kong have left unsuspecting m...

Protesters press HK leader to quit, China tells US to back off

Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters demanded that the city's embattled leader meet a deadline to resign on Thursday, as China warned the United States against me...

Alibaba and Wanda face off: online and offline

Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)

China's former richest man Wang Jianlin once bet Alibaba founder Jack Ma 100 million yuan ($16.3 million) that online purchases in the country would not eclipse...

Chinese PM to visit Germany for joint cabinet meet

Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a joint cabinet meeting of the Asian and European export powers next week, Berlin said...

LME says will ramp up trading fees by 34%

Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)

LME says will ramp up trading fees by 34% London (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - The London Metal Exchange, the main global metals market, said Monday it will raise fees ...

A year on, foreign firms still await FTZ reform bonanza

Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)

China on Monday hailed the first anniversary of its first free-trade zone (FTZ), but foreign companies expressed disappointment over the pace of pledged reforms...

Fashion made-in-China: fine for everyone but the Chinese

Sep 28, 2014 (AFP)

It has been called fashion's dirty little secret but according to Miuccia Prada, soon everybody will be doing it. Made-in-China's just fine with Prada's supremo...

China's CITIC wins interim injunction in Mineralogy dispute

Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese-owned CITIC has won an interim injunction temporarily halting a bid by Australian tycoon Clive Palmer's company Mineralogy to terminate its mining right...

Microsoft chief makes first China visit amid probe: report

Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is visiting China for the first time since taking the post in February, state media said Friday, as authorities ...

France's Sanofi opens research hub in China

Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi opened a research hub in Shanghai Thursday, the company said, as foreign drug firms face government scrutiny after drugmaker ...

Spanish PM visits China in bid to boost trade

Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday made his first visit to China, meeting with top officials in Beijing on a trip aimed at expanding trade with th...

One million Filipinos join booming Philippine outsourcing sector

Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)

The Philippines' booming outsourcing industry now employs a million people after growing almost tenfold in just over a decade, the industry association said Wed...

Farmers protest planned $50-bn canal in Nicaragua

Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)

Hundreds of farmers Tuesday demonstrated against a new $50 billion waterway aimed at rivalling the Panama Canal, irate at plans to expropriate the land they wor...

China travel warning hits Philippine tourism industry

Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)

Tens of thousands of Chinese tourists have cancelled trips to the Philippines after a travel warning by Beijing, inflicting major pain on hotels, airlines and t...

Japan business delegation visits China amid thaw hopes

Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)

A large business delegation left Japan Monday for China with hopes of being granted an audience with President Xi Jinping as the two countries take baby steps t...

China's Zhu charms Milan with Italian vision of Krizia future

Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)

Zhu Chongyun, the glamorous Chinese entrepreneur and designer who has taken over Krizia, has vowed to maintain the historic fashion house's made-in-Italy herita...

Alibaba surges in Wall Street debut

Sep 19, 2014 (AFP)

A buying frenzy sent Alibaba shares sharply higher Friday as the Chinese online giant made its historic Wall Street trading debut. Alibaba leapt from an offerin...

Commodity prices roiled by stronger dollar, China

Sep 19, 2014 (AFP)

Oil prices endured a volatile week and metals futures fell as the dollar strengthened and Chinese economic data disappointed markets. OIL: World oil prices edge...