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Tesco eyes China JV
Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, plans to establish a joint venture in China, a bid to control its capital expenditure in global expansion, the Financial Times reported Monday. The supermarket chain that came here in 2004 is seeking partners in China for the venture, the report said, citing three sources close to the matter. Analysts said China Resources Company is the most suitable ...
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China calls for implementation of DPRK resolutions
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday called for the full implementation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired missiles into the East Sea. The DPRK Monday fired two more short-range missiles into the East Sea, after launching one on Sunday and three on Saturday, according to Yonhap News ...
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India-China ink 3 MoUs including pharmaceuticals
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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Former Bank Executive in China Faces Bribe Accusations
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Experts officials China has resumed hacking U.S. companies agencies
Computer security experts and U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on companies and agencies they stole data from three months ago. A unit of China's People's Liberation Army had stopped computer intrusions in February after the administration of ...
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Eriksson in talks with China club
A Chinese football club is in talks to appoint Sven-Goran Eriksson as their next manager, a spokesman said Monday, despite reports linking the former England boss to the Cameroon national side."Eriksson is one of the candidates," said Chen Jie, a spokeswoman for Guangzhou R&F, based in the capital of the boom southern province of Guangdong."The club is currently in talks with ...
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Learning Statecraft from China
At the same event, he also underscored the importance of being more conversant with the Chinese thought process for improving Indo-China relations. His counsel becomes even more relevant in the light of the recent friction between India and China over difference in interpretation of the border, resulting, recently, in a 19-km incursion in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector of the Depsang Valley in ...
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UPDATE 2-China offers India a handshake across the Himalayas
Mon May 20, 2013 10:37am EDT * Visit to India comes after border standoff in Himalayas * Small breakthroughs on trade, no major agreements * Li also due to visit Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany By Frank Jack Daniel and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI, May 20 (Reuters) - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions on their ill-defined border after an army standoff in the Himalayas, ...
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Philippine strategies make it overconfident in confronting China
Tensions over the recent killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard are still going on. Looking through the history of the Philippines confronting China on maritime disputes, we find that the Phillipines has always held an unscrupulous and reckless attitude. For example, the naval face-off at Huangyan Island last year was triggered by Philippine navy which had attempted to ...
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China India issue joint statement focusing on full-scale cooperation
China and India issued a joint statement Monday highlighting their commitment to expanding common ground in bilateral cooperation and coordination in various fields.The statement, released during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's ongoing visit here, said the two Asian giants "welcome each other's peaceful development and regard it as a mutually reinforcing ...
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China India establish principles of settling border issue PremierLi
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Monday that China and India have established principles of settling the border issue that is left over by history."Both sides believe that we need to improve the various border-related mechanisms that we have put into place and make them more efficient, and we need to appropriately manage and resolve our differences," Li added.Li made the ...
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Sohu Seeking Success in Complex Tie-Up With China Internet Search Leader Baidu
(Nasdaq: BIDU), starting with the strong possibility that this latest in a sudden string of rumors about Sogou may be true. Sogou's chief executive has already said publicly the unit was for sale, naming Baidu as one of the leading bidders. The only slight contradiction in the mix comes from comments by Charles Zhang in an interview late last week, which I'll return to shortly. But ...
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Beijing’s first taxi stations completed
/enpproperty--> The Beijing Commission of Transport has announced the city's first 170 taxi stations are ready. The stations, now concentrated in the downtown area, are meant to make it easier for residents to hail a taxi. The stations are near hospitals, institutions, and commercial and residential areas. The commission said it's easier for passengers to hail a taxi at a station ...
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Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China
Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company. On April 27 and May 14, two workers employed at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, separately fell to their deaths, according to the Taiwanese manufacturing giant. On May 11, another worker from Foxconn's Chongqing facility was also found ...
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Recall Extends Global Leadership with New Information Center in China
Global Leader in Records Management, Data Protection and Document Destruction Opens State-of-the-Art Facility in Beijing NORCROSS, Ga., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
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Danone hopes to crack China with new dairy deal
By Donny Kwok and Astrid Wendlandt HONG KONG/PARIS (Reuters) - France's Danone (DANO.PA) is aiming for a bigger slice of one of the world's fastest-growing dairy markets by investing 325 million euros ($417 million) in two deals with China ...
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China Resumes Cyber Attacks on US Firm Says
A U.S. computer security firm says the Chinese military has resumed cyber attacks on American companies after a hiatus. Mandiant, which accused China of cyber attacks in a February report, says a Chinese army unit recently broke into the computer systems of more than 100 companies to steal trade secrets. It says the attacks started again just days after Chinese officials told Secretary of ...
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Underground Lender Gets Death Sentence in China
BEIJING -- A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by ...
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China to remain competitive industrially blue book
China's industrial competitiveness will remain strong in 2013 despite it facing increasing production costs and competition from developing nations in labor-intensive sectors, according to a blue book released on Monday.The blue book, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank, says China's industrial competitiveness will keep rising, thanks to its ...
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China urges DPRK on detained Chinese fishermens treatment
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to safeguard the health and legitimate rights and interests of a number of Chinese fisherman reportedly detained in the country.According to media reports, private fishing boat "Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222" from Dalian City in northeast China's Liaoning Province was ...
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Thyroid gland diseases on sharp rise in China
/enpproperty--> One in five Chinese people are suffering thyroid nodules and roughly 10 percent of all thyroid nodule cases are actually thyroid cancer, medical experts said at a event to mark the International Thyroid Awareness Week (May 20 to May 29). Experts said that China has more than 200 million people suffering from various kinds of thyroid diseases on the mainland. The ...
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Fans target Tianjin vehicles in Beijing
/enpproperty--> Soccer fans in Beijing set vehicles ablaze and attacked cars from Tianjin following a soccer match between clubs from the two cites on Saturday night. The China Super League match between Beijing Guoan and Tianjin Teda ended in a 2-2 draw. Pictures of fan hooliganism were released on Caijing.com.cn on Monday. The pictures showed some fans of Beijing Guoan on the ...
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India Ink India and China Sign Deals on Economic and Cultural Cooperation
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang before a meeting in New Delhi on Monday. The prime ministers of India and China on Monday emphasized the need for economic cooperation between the two fast-growing developing nations, saying that ...
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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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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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