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Chinese inflation hits highest rate since 2012
Nov 09, 2019 (AFP)
The consumer price index (CPI) -- a key gauge of retail inflation -- hit 3.8 percent last month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, up from 3.0 perce...
China export drop beats forecasts in October but more pain tipped
Nov 08, 2019 (AFP)
While tensions between the world's top two economies are beginning to ease, Beijing is struggling to get the engines of growth firing on all cylinders as demand...
China says agreed with US to remove tariffs if trade deal progresses
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
The two sides have been embroiled in a bruising trade war for more than a year, and have slapped punitive tariffs on hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-worth of tw...
EU-China deal to protect iconic regional products
Nov 06, 2019 (AFP)
Henceforth, in trade between the global giants, consumers must trust that booze labelled as Scotch whisky comes from Scotland and Moutai liquor comes from Kweic...
China to resume Canada meat imports, but ties still frosty
Nov 06, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing blocked beef and pork shipments from Canada in June, alleging contamination in pork shipments and bogus documents -- claims disputed by Canada. The move...
China hypes import show, but not everyone's buying it
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
President Xi Jinping opened the second annual China International Import Expo (CIIE) on Tuesday in Shanghai with a speech declaring -- as he did last year -- th...
Facebook says Libra needs 'decades' to take hold
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
"This is going to be the work not of years but of decades, but it's a journey worth making," Kevin Weil, Vice President of product at Calibra, Libra's digital w...
Xi pledges wider market access, free-trade deals
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
Xi addressed an audience including French President Emmanuel Macron at the import exhibition in Shanghai, staged annually by China to show its willingness to op...
India firms, farmers applaud Modi for rejecting RCEP trade deal
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
New Delhi's 11th-hour rejection of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) -- which was meant to account for 30 percent of global GDP and loop in...
Hong Kong's economic woes deepen with plunging business outlook
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
The Purchasing Managers Index -- which measures the health of the private sector -- dropped to 39.3 in October, its worst reading since 2008 during the global f...
US-China trade war 'hurting both countries': UN
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
In a fresh report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) examined the repercussions of bruising tariff hikes imposed by the world's two largest ec...
World's biggest trade deal to be delayed to 2020: draft ASEAN statement
Nov 03, 2019 (AFP)
The 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) spans from India to New Zealand and includes 30 percent of global GDP and half of the world's p...
SEAsia leaders to push for progress on China-backed trade pact
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
If signed, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will be the world's largest trade pact and is seen as a way for Beijing to cement trade ties i...
China, US hold 'constructive' call on trade mini-deal
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Friday spoke by telephone with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a call both sides...
WTO authorises Chinese tariffs on $3.6 bn in US goods in anti-dumping tiff
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
China had asked the WTO for permission to hit the US with more than $7 billion in tariffs in the case. But the WTO ruling said it had determined that the illega...
Trump: new location for US-China trade deal signing to be 'announced soon'
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
The partial trade deal, known as phase one, had been due for signing on the sidelines of the regional APEC summit which Chile cancelled on Wednesday due to viol...
Hong Kong plunges into recession as protests, trade war take toll
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
The semi-autonomous Chinese city has been upended by nearly five months of huge, often violent, pro-democracy demonstrations with little end in sight as Beijing...
China blasts Pompeo for 'vicious' speech against Beijing
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
In the latest hawkish take on China by President Donald Trump's administration, Pompeo Wednesday called Beijing "truly hostile" to the United States, and vowed ...
US wants China trade deal in 'same time frame' despite APEC summit cancellation
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
"We look forward to finalizing Phase One of the historic trade deal with China within the same time frame, and when we have an announcement, we'll let you know,...
HSBC boss says bank underperforming in Europe, US as profits slip
Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)
The Asia-focused behemoth has been trying to lower costs as it faces the double uncertainties caused by the grinding US-China trade war and Britain's impending ...
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