Vietnam shipped overseas 6.3 million tons of rice in the first eleven months of this year, up 12 percent year-on-year, according to Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday. During this period, Vietnam earned nearly three billion U.S dollars from rice exports, presenting an increase of 18 percent year-on-year. Local analyst...
SURFACE trade value between North American Free Trade Agreement members US, Canada and Mexico was 19.3 per cent higher year on year in September, hitting US$68.3 billion, but that was still 4.8 per cent below that posted in September 2008, according to US Transportation Department. Surface movement includes truck, rail and pipeline, said American Shippe...
BEIJING - Foreign businesses will get the chance to break into the Chinese medical market in a big way, thanks to the latest series of measures aimed at encouraging the development of private hospitals. The changes that allow fully foreign-owned hospitals to be established on the mainland are among initiatives forwarded by the State Council, China's Ca...
The value of yuan strengthened as the central parity rate of Renminbi, China's currency, was set at 6.6515 per U.S. dollar Monday, compared with Friday's 6.6605, according to the data released by the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. At present, the yuan is allowed to float on the inter-bank foreign exchange market within a daily limit of 0.5 per...
China is expected to sign a batch of cooperation documents with other countries that are interested in China's railway progress during the upcoming Seventh World Congress on High Speed Rail in Beijing next week, a senior railway official said. Chen Juemin, director-general of the international cooperation department at the Ministry of Railways, said in...
A group of protesters gathered in Auckland on Monday to voice opposition to a proposed trans- Pacific free trade agreement. The protesters said the trade deal will strip New Zealand of its strategic assets and open it up to rampant foreign investment. Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - - a proposed free trade agreement ...
HSBC Bank has offered RMB settlement for Indian importers, said Stuart Davis, CEO of HSBC in India. Speaking on the sidelines of a bankers' conference in Mumbai, Davis told Xinhua that the deals are medium-sized and it will take time to gain liquidity in this regard. The RMB settlement arrangements enable importers to pay imports through Indian rup...
Spain and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Friday announced the creation of a 67 million U.S. dollars fund for Haiti's small and medium-sized enterprises. The joint announcement was made at the 20th Ibero-American Summit in Argentina's seaside resort of Mar del Plata. "Haiti needs to rebuild highways, bridges and its social network as wel...
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