Canada may be just months away from becoming the first country in the world to have a free trade agreement with both the United States and the European Union (EU), Peter Van loan, Canada's minister of international trade, said here Thursday. Speaking at a private meeting of conservative policy experts, Van Loan said he hopes the Canada-EU trade deal ca...
South Korea and Canada will resume negotiations on whether to ease Seoul's regulation on Canadian beef imports next week, the government said Friday. According to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the talks will be held in Ottawa from Monday to Wednesday, during which the two sides will hold thorough dialogue on the regulation ...
HANGZHOU - Total turnover of China's e-commerce jumped 10 percent in the second quarter from a year ago to 1.1 trillion yuan ($161 billion), according to a research result released Sunday. Sales of B2C (Business-to-Consumer) business, or online retail sales, nearly doubled from April to June to 111.23 billion yuan, according to a report released by iRe...
HANGZHOU - Officials from a local administration for industry and commerce in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, said Monday it has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota's auto finance unit in China for involvement in commercial bribery. This is the first commercial bribery fine for both Toyota Motor Finance (China) and Toyota Motor Corp, t...
Japan's Nissan Motor Co Ltd plans to double its production capacity in China to 1.2 million units by 2012, as it aims for a 10 percent share of China auto market, Reuters reported Monday. The new production plan is 20 percent above Nissan's earlier target, said the report. The auto company on Monday announced the opening of its first sport utility...
Kuwait will hike oil output in the country's northern fields to 850,000 barrels per day by the end of December, local daily Kuwait Times reported Monday, citing sources from the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The report said the state-owned KOC, in charge of the Gulf emirate's oil exploration, was in negotiations with several foreign firms to further devel...
Singapore and Malaysia Monday settled a land swap agreement for four parcels of land in Singapore on Monday, local media reported. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak on Monday on bilateral issues after the last meeting in Malaysia in June, local TV broadcaster Channel NewsAsia reported. The land s...
Australia's commodity export earnings on Tuesday were forecast to reach a record high 215 billion dollars (203 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010/11, on the back of higher prices for crops, iron ore and coal. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics ( ABARE) September quarter report was released on Tuesday, revising upwards the forecast ...
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