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TOKYO - Grosvenor Group Ltd, the real estate company owned by the family trust of the UK's Duke of Westminster, aims to raise at least $270 million for a fund that will invest in properties in China as part of its expansion in Asia. Grosvenor, with about $16 billion in assets, ...
Carrefour China Inc failed to raise salaries for its 6,000 employees in Shanghai, the National Business Daily reported Friday. "Salaries at Carrefour (Shanghai) failed to increase, but fell during the 11 years between 1998 and 2009. The situation did not change until 2010, when ...
Charles Li SYDNEY/HONG KONG - Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) named Charles Li from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as its new chief executive for China on Thursday, as it continues to expand in the region. Li was most recently country executive and head of global ...
BEIJING - Thirty-three Chinese companies have made it to the top 100 "global challengers" this year, reflecting the dynamic growth and international aspirations of China's corporations, according to a report released by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on Thursday. The group ...
A new iPhone4 is displayed in the Apple flagship store in New York. [Photo / Xinhua] BEIJING - Chinese environmental groups on Thursday singled out iPhone maker Apple Inc for failing to properly oversee its Chinese suppliers, leading to poor environmental and work conditions, and ...
Volkswagen of America, Inc., on Monday announced the world debut of an all-new Passat, a transformational car in Volkswagen's ambitious growth plan for the U.S. market at the 2011 North America International Auto Show (NAIAS). Designed in Germany and manufactured in America, the ...
China's auto maker BYD Co., Ltd. presented its "Three Green Dreams" strategy on Monday at the 2011 North America International Auto Show (NAIAS). BYD's "Three Green Dreams" focuses on renewable energy generation, environmentally-friendly energy storage, efficient energy ...
PetroChina Company Limited, China's largest oil producer, announced on Monday that its subsidiary has entered into a framework agreement with subsidiaries of INEOS Group Holdings plc for a new trading and refining joint venture in Europe. The agreement was signed between ...
China's Shandong Airlines signed a contract Monday with U.S.-based Boeing Company to buy 15 Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft with a catalogue price of about 1.35 billion U.S. dollars. The airliners would be delivered to Shandong Airlines over the next five years, said Zhang ...
Chinese Internet game firms announced on Saturday the founding of an association for the protection of online game copyrights. Launched with guidance from China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), the China Online Game Copyright Protection Union seeks to ...
Volkswagen AG, the second-largest foreign automaker in China, is in talks with its local partners to develop a new car, specifically for Chinese consumers. The move comes as the company looks to find more potential in new segments of the world's biggest automobile market, said ...
China Minmetals Corporation said Thursday that its profits soared 123.2 percent year on year in 2010 due to robust commodity sales. Profits totaled 7 billion yuan (1.06 billion U.S. dollars) last year, the company's president Zhou Zhongshu said, attributing the profit growth to ...
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) inaugurated its first French branch in Paris on Tuesday. At the ceremony, ICBC President Jiang Jianqing and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde jointly pressed a red button to symbolically launch the new subsidiary of the ...
The headquarters of CNOOC in Beijing. The company plans to invest between 800 billion yuan and 1 trillion yuan during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). [Photo: Bloomberg] For Fu Chengyu, the helmsman of China's largest offshore oil conglomerate, it's never been an easy job to ...
International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Inc. posted quarter profit reports on Tuesday, both beating the Wall Street's estimates, showing an upbeat profit season for U.S. IT companies. IBM, the world's largest computer-service provider, reported that the profit for the ...
Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong-listed ports-to-telecom conglomerate controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, said Tuesday it planned to spin off the port operations in southern China and list it at Singapore stock market. HPH Management, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, has made ...
Fiji's Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama on Tuesday officiated at the ground breaking of Chinese-constructed road and bridge projects at Wainibuka in Tailevu Province. China Railway First Group has been awarded the contract. The ground breaking celebration is for the ...
Nearly eight percent of Chinese companies are intending to invest in Canada within the next three years, according to a survey released Monday, with about half of those polled expressing an interest in the North American manufacturing sector. In the report "China Goes Global 2011...
Steve Jobs, Apple Inc's chief executive officer (CEO), on Monday announced that he is taking another medical leave, raising new concerns about the company's future. "At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health," Jobs ...
China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) saw profits increase 37.9 percent year on year to 1.99 trillion yuan (301.5 billion U.S. dollars) last year, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Monday. Business revenue reached 30.33 trillion yuan, up 31.1 percent from a year ago. Both ...
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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Minivans rev up sales for GM
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Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
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