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General Motors Company (GM) will recall the final 2,000 workers on lay off by September, Joe Ashton, vice president of United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Wednesday at a bargaining convention in Detroit. "Those people will all be back at work in September, and we will have full ...
Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday introduced a new feature to its search engine, which the company said can deliver answers and direct access to websites before users complete their query or hit the search button. The new feature, called Search Direct, predicts search results as fast as a ...
Chinese steel makers will soon have a financial tool to hedge some of their production costs with the introduction of coke futures contracts. Domestic mills supply only a third of their coke needs from their own production, compared with a self-sufficient rate of 85-95 percent ...
Apple's latest generation iPad 2 will be sold in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea in April but no date has been announced for its debut on the Chinese mainland. There is still "no information" about the domestic debut for iPad 2, Apple China said Wednesday. The device, which ...
Profits for China's biggest industrial companies rose 34.3 percent year to year to reach 645.5 billion yuan (about 97.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the first two months this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday. The combined revenues of these industrial ...
China Shenhua Energy Co. Ltd., China's largest coal producer, said Saturday that its net profits reached 37.19 billion yuan (about 5.63 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, up 22.8 percent from the previous year. The Shanghai-listed company said in its annual business report that ...
China's Dongfeng Automobile, the listed arm of Dongfeng Motor Company, said Saturday its net profit in 2010 surged 79.54 percent year on year on robust auto sales. The Shanghai-listed company, based in Wuhan City in central China's Hubei Province, saw net profit reach 570.82 ...
The China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., Asia's largest oil refiner, said Sunday its net profits in 2010 rose 13.7 percent year on year, according to international accounting standards. Net profits of Sinopec, as the company is known, hit 71.8 billion yuan (10.9 billion U.S. ...
The latest exhibition by Pixar Animation Studios opened Sunday at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum on the first stop of its new global tour. The exhibition "Pixar: 25 Years of Animation" building on the success of its last international tour, offers the most comprehensive review of ...
Singapore-headquartered shopping mall developer and operator CapitaMalls Asia has submitted an application for a secondary listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange, the company announced Monday. The company, which is listed on the Singapore Exchange and a component of the ...
In his first response to a recent copyright dispute, Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, Monday said the company is stepping up anti-piracy efforts and hopes to work out a mutually beneficial business model to settle the dispute. China's most popular search engine was accused of ...
Hutchison Whampoa, a ports-to-telecom conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka- shing, said on Tuesday its net profit in 2010 jumped 47 percent year on year to 20.04 billion HK dollars (2.57 billion U.S. dollars). The figure was higher than the average net profit ...
France-based aircraft maker Airbus decided to bring forward the entry-into-service for A320neo Family from 2016 to October 2015 due to earnest market demand, the firm said Wednesday in a statement. "The exceptional market demand for the A320neo Family ... has encouraged us to ...
Microsoft Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) on Wednesday announced that they have forged a strategic partnership and plan to build in-car digital information services using Microsoft's "cloud computing" platform. The two companies said they plan to invest 1 billion yen (about 12 ...
Minmetals Resources, China's biggest metals trading firm, offered US$6.5 billion to buy Equinox Minerals, chasing the target company's copper assets in Zambia and Saudi Arabia. Minmetals, which owns mining operations in Australia and Asia, said it would offer C$7 (US$7.26) per ...
Danish beer maker Carlsberg A/S is repositioning its brand in a bid to double profits by 2015, the company announced on Tuesday. Carlsberg's green logo is recognized worldwide, but its sales do not match its brand presence, the company's CEO, Joergen Buhl Rasmussen, said in a ...
The Deutsche Bank has forecast that the impact of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami may lead to a reduction in auto production this year in North America, but GM and Ford will gain market share, according to a Wednesday report of Detnews. Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache ...
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Chris Capossela as chief marketing officer, responsible for the software giant's marketing, advertising and corporate communications. Capossela will also take the role of senior vice president of the company's Consumer ...
Daimler AG is recalling more than 136,000 Mercedes-Benz M-class SUVs in the United States over complaints that the cruise control doesn't immediately disengage when drivers tap the brake pedal, according to a Tuesday report on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Google is now trying to bolster its weak position in the smartphone industry's patent wars by bidding $900 million US dollars for a stack of patents put up for sale by Nortel, the bankrupt Canadian communications equipment maker. The bid comes as Google, along with the handset ...
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday slammed the remarks of ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
GM China chairman to retire
GM China chairman to retire
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Minivans rev up sales for GM
Minivans rev up sales for GM
Sales of General Motors and its Chinese ventures accelerated in ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese leader calls for more marine power
Chinese leader calls for more marine power
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli Sunday called for research in polar ...
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Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Fourteen countries expected to compete in Cuba's wrestling tourney
Fourteen countries expected to compete in Cuba's wrestling tourney
Some 14 countries and regions are expected to compete in the 45th ...