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Jeff Reevess Strength in Numbers China’s weak economy will hit these stocks hardest
If that's not enough for you, feel free to surf around for more troubling macro data. But rather than just spit out the figures,I'll focus on specific stocks and sectors that are at risk to help you protect your ...
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Goldman selling all stock in Chinas ICBC
Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) stake, worth around $1.1 billion, in a move to exit an investment it made into the bank seven years ago. Goldman is selling the shares of China's largest commercial banking group in the range of $0.70 to $0.71, a discount of 2.5 per cent to 3.0 per cent compared to today's closing price. The firm sold $1 billion worth ...
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India China to address trade imbalance
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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New Report on RD Trend Forecast of Alumina Market in China
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Research and Development Trend Forecast of Alumina Market in China, 2013-2017" report to their ...
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India China Pledge to Overcome Border Tensions
NEW DELHI -- The leaders of Asian giants India and China say they will take steps to build greater mutual trust a month after a tense dispute over their shared border. With words like friendship, peace and consensus, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang, meeting in New Delhi, set out to move past the standoff that dominated headlines just weeks ago. ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Chinas Entrenched Gender Gap
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Chinas maritime industry to keep growing
A new government report, made public on Monday, has predicted that China's maritime industry will see relatively fast growth in the next 17 years.The country's maritime industry is expanding fast and will reach a stable stage in 2030, said the report issued by the China Institute for Marine Affairs, attached to the State Oceanic Administration.In 2012, the maritime industry reported a ...
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China Tajikistan establish strategic partnership
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon at the signing of a joint announcement to establish a strategic partnership, after their talks in Beijing, capital of China, May 20, 2013. Photo: XinhuaChina and Tajikistan established a strategic partnership on Monday, pledging to boost bilateral cooperation.The announcement was made during talks held between ...
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Scenery of terraced fields in central China
Farmers work at the terraced fields at the Xinhua County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province, May 19, 2013. (Xinhua/Liu ...
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China Comes To Ukraine
Ai Weiwei, Forever Bicycle, 2012; Photo: PinchukArtCentre, by Dmytro Baranov Just like its economy, the Chinese art scene has been booming for the past few years. In the absence of any productive strategic partnership between Ukraine and China, as well as any noticeable political or economic ties, art is a fresh way to connect the two cultures. "China China," - which promises to be ...
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Danone looks to milk China demand surge
Danone has struck two deals with the China Mengniu Dairy Company in a bid to take advantage of surging demand for internationally-branded milk and ...
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Top 10 points from India-Chinas joint statement
Two sides agreed to consult the other parties with a view to establishing a Joint Study Group on strengthening connectivity in the BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar) ...
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China suspects presumed guilty until proven innocent
A police officer stands guard on Tiananmen Square: police and prosecutors are often placed under enormous pressure to find suspects guilty. Photograph: Diego ...
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Top Secret The Battle for the Pentagon Papers Is a Hit in ... China
A poster for the December 2011 run of "Top Secret" in China (LA Theatre Works) A little less than two years ago, the play, "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," came to China by way of Los Angeles, playing to mostly student audiences in small theaters in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. I took in one performance on the campus of Peking University that felt ...
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India China ink 8 agreements on trade water resources
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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At least 12 dead in China blast
AT least 12 people died and 11 were missing Monday after a blast destroyed an explosives workshop in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, state media said. The explosion scattered rubble up to 200 metres away, killing at least a dozen people at the factory owned by the Poly Explosives (Jinan) Company in Shandong's Caofan township, the semi-official China News Service ...
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China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
Reuters © Liu Tienan, then head of the National Energy Administration and deputy chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), attends a news conference about Spring Festival transport in Beijing in this January 8, 2012 file photograph. The latest bureaucrat to fall from grace thanks to the Internet was Liu Tienan, sacked from his job last week as deputy chief ...
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Cannes Diary India and China have a strong presence
While many stars come to the French Riviera to party, the main business of Cannes is business itself. Selim El Azar, the chief executive of the Qatar-based Gulf Film, and Abdulaziz Al Khater, the new head of the Doha Film Institute, are both in Cannes this week to shake hands and make deals. Also on the sales-pitch circuit is the directing legend Martin Scorsese, drumming up interest in his ...
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Video Jon Stewart - the new Voice of America in China
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Inside Asia On Chinas Border Underground Banking Flourishes
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H7N9 found in poultry sample in S China
A poultry sample in south China has tested positive for H7N9 virus, the country's agriculture authority said on Monday.The avian flu virus, which has so far led to the deaths of 36 people nationwide, was detected in a sample of chicken that came from a market in the city of Zengcheng in Guangdong Province.After completing gene sequence analysis, the national avian flu reference laboratory ...
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How China chokes its neighbors
-- When the Chinese smog arrives, the medical masks come in fashion. Every few months, this city of 1.5 million people in southern Japan, not far from mainland China, gets a dose of lung clogging courtesy of its neighbor. Coal factories in the cities of Tianjin ...
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Australian-trained doctor Huang Jiefu hits back at critics over ties to China organ harvesting
The University of Sydney 2006 The Australian-trained doctor under fire for his involvement in China's controversial organ transplant program has defended the practice and responded to calls for him to be stripped of honorary titles from the University of ...
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Eversheds Launches Beijing Office With Two New Partner Hires
Eversheds has announced the launch of its Beijing office, opening on 20 May 2013, with the appointment of two new partners: corporate energy law expert Ingrid Zhu-Clark and corporate lawyer Jay ...
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Indias Essar Oil to sign $1 billion debt-for-fuel deal with China
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Essar Oil Ltd (ESRO.NS) will sign a $1 billion loan deal with China on Tuesday that sources with knowledge of the matter said would be backed by supply of refined products to top state oil producer ...
Beijing Feature
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Massive Beijing Subway expansion plans
The Beijing Subway is one of the biggest, most efficient and most used subways in the world. It is constantly undergoing expansion and upgrades, and yet is unable to keep up with the growth of the capital city. With the recently announced plans for the expansion of the subway by over 60%, the city will certainly be hard-pushed to meet the massive task.
The Beijing Subway is one of the largest in the world. It carries over 5 million people every day, and hundreds of trains run on 228kms of track and service 147 stations. It is a feat of engineering, planning and coordination every single day. It is a network that Beijing commuters should be proud of, it represents the forward-thinking and development of the city. Read more
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