WASHINGTON -- A second Google executive said on Wednesday that the company had not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese language search site and it was prepared to shut down the website if necessary. "We are no longer willing to censor our search results in China, and we are currently reviewing our options," Google vice president and deputy ...
Although the financial crisis of 2009 greatly affected all sectors of the travel industry, the World Travel Trends report released on Wednesday in Berlin predicted a slight recovery from some regions, including a strong boom commencing from China. Rolf Freitag, the CEO of IPK International, a world travel research monitor that tracks the trends in outboun...
SHANGHAI - Maanshan Iron & Steel Co, the second-biggest Chinese steelmaker listed in Hong Kong, will increase coking coal imports this year, adding to rising global demand that's sent prices soaring. The mill bought between 800,000 metric tons and 900,000 tons of the raw material from BHP Billiton Ltd, the biggest exporter, last year, Chairman Gu Jia...
BEIJING - China's largest refiner Sinopec will start a 1,660-km liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline in May to channel the clean fuel from its Puguang gas field in Sichuan province to Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, a source familiar with the project said yesterday. The Sichuan-Shanghai gas pipeline, with a total investment of 62.7 billion yuan...
Investors should buy shares of Taiwan companies that benefit most from the island's closer ties with the mainland, according to the manager of Taiwan's best-performing equities fund. Investment interest in the economic integration with the mainland "will increase," said Steve Champion, whose $80 million Taiwan Greater China Fund's 94 percent return in ...
BEIJING - China's foreign trade posted a 45.2 percent year-on-year growth in February, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) announced Wednesday. Exports in February stood at $94.52 billion, up 45.7 percent, in a new indication of a rebound in global demand, while imports rose 44.7 percent to $86.91 billion. Exports grew 8.2 percent compared with...
China's plan to introduce exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track overseas stock indexes signals a push to create more opportunities for investors as the market matures, according to West China Securities Co. The Shanghai Stock Exchange will try to introduce exchange-traded funds that track foreign indexes this year, Chairman Geng Liang said at a briefin...
BEIJING - Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co Ltd (JAC), an auto producer based in Hefei, will start construction on its first overseas plant to produce trucks in Vietnam in April, the company chairman said on Tuesday. The plant, a joint venture with Vietnamese partners, will mainly produce medium- and light-duty trucks, Zuo Yan'an, chairman of the company, to...
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