Flooding in China kills 16, forces thousands from homes CNN | (CNN) -- Rainstorms and flooding in southern China have killed at least 16 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, according to state-run media. | Authorities had sent text messages to more than 1 million people to take precautions in southern China, the Xinhua news agency said Saturday. |...
HK shares open down 1 pct; Sichuan Expressway gains The Guardian HONG KONG, July 6 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares opened 1 percent lower on Monday as falling energy and other commodity prices weighed, but Chinese toll road operator Sichuan Expressway is set to buck the trend after announcing plans to list in Shangha...
HK shares seen hit by lower crude oil prices The Guardian HONG KONG, July 6 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares are expected to flounder on Monday amid a lack of cues from Wall Street, which was closed for Independence Day on Friday, and falling energy prices. Oil fell towards $65 per barrel on Monday, extending l...
China launches trial yuan trade settlement scheme The Guardian SHANGHAI, July 6 (Reuters) - China on Monday officially launched a pilot programme to allow companies to settle imports and exports in the yuan in selected areas in a major step towards internationalising the Chinese currency eventually. The launch i...
Cops confront Uygur protest Hong Kong Standard Police rushed to restore order in the northwestern city of Urumqi yesterday when protesters attacked passers-by and torched vehicles, state media reported. | //--> Monday, July 06, 2009 | Police rushed to restore order in the northwestern city of Uru...
First Oregon art lab project is ancient money tree The Examiner Comments PORTLAND, Ore. (Map, News) - As with most things found in a grave, the money tree bore only secrets. Through its 2,000-year journey from China to the Portland Art Museum, the bronze sculpture offered one tantalizing mystery after another. | ...
Flooding in China kills 16, forces thousands from homes CNN | (CNN) -- Rainstorms and flooding in southern China have killed at least 16 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, according to state-run media. | Authorities had sent text messages to more than 1 million people to take precautions in south...
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General Motors says China sales up 38 percent The Miami Herald | SHANGHAI -- General Motors Corp. said Wednesday that sales in China jumped 38 percent in the first half of this year, helped by strong demand for its minivans and other small veh...
Kazakhstan expands China oil pipeline link The Guardian * Kazakhstan expands key pipeline to China * China gets access to Caspian Sea oil fields By Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY, July 1 (Reuters) - China secured access to vast oil deposits in w...
MOF: China to float 29.12b yuan T-bonds next week China Daily | China plans to issue 29.12 billion yuan worth of treasury bonds in a week, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Friday in a statement. | As part of the nation's fourth batch this year, the five-year book-entry bond has a fixed annual interest rate...
Touchmedia's big plans for taxi ad China Daily | Touchmedia, Shanghai-based in-taxi interactive media company, has been seeing great success lately, winning awards and making large profits, despite the global economic downturn. | The company successfully completed its third round of financing wor...
In Drive for Wind Power, Man Who Led Coal Plant Seeks Atonement The New York Times | DUNHUANG, China - A guilty conscience turned Min Deqing into northwestern China's unlikely prophet of wind and solar energy. Skip to next paragraph | A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » | For more than three decad...
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BaWang IPO debut set to shower money on founder couple China Daily | Today, when BaWang Group makes its Hong Kong stock exchange debut, the firm's founding chairman Chen Qiyuan and CEO Wan Yuhua will become the richest couple in shampoo business circles on the mainland. | According to sources close to the Guangzhou-...
Investing in agriculture The News International Random thoughts | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Dr A Q Khan | The population of what now constitutes Pakistan has escalated from 30 million to 170 million. Food production should have kept pace with the rise, if not exceeded it. We are spending billions of dollars on imports of basic items like wheat, sugar, tea, spices, edible oil, pulses and vegetab...
