World superstore giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced here Wednesday the establishment of its new Asia regional headquarters in Hong Kong. President and Chief Executive Officer for Wal-Mart Asia Vicente Trius said the Hong Kong regional headquarters will have strategic responsibilities for managing the company's current operations in Asia and for...
The Chilean state-owned copper firm Nacional del Cobre (Codelco) is seeking a joint venture with Chinese company MinMetals to explore minerals in African and Asian countries. Local media quoted sources from Codelco as saying on Tuesday that the joint venture will be one of the major steps between the two companies to cement cooperation and seek mutual...
U.S. video game publisher THQ announced Tuesday the opening of a new office in Shanghai in a move to pursue more development and publishing partners in the fast-growing Chinese market. The new office will work to expand existing local partnership to develop and publish both online and packaged games for distribution in China and around the world,...
The fourth China Jilin Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo opened yesterday to again bridge buyers and suppliers in the provincial capital of Changchun over the next four days. One of the most influential trade fairs on the mainland, it offers an important opportunity and platform for opening up in Jilin", said provincial Party Secretary Wang Min....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service will assess a $150 fee for each dairy tariff-rate import quota license issued in 2009. Licenses are issued on a calendar year basis, and each license authorizes the holder to import a specified quantity and type of dairy product from a specified country of origin. Both USDA and...
The fourth China Jilin Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo opened yesterday to again bridge buyers and suppliers in the provincial capital of Changchun over the next four days. One of the most influential trade fairs on the mainland, it offers an important opportunity and platform for opening up in Jilin, said provincial Party Secretary Wang Min. ...
Hangzhou was named the best place to do business in China for a fifth consecutive year in a Forbes survey released yesterday. Shanghai came in at No 2, with Beijing remaining in sixth position for the second straight year. Wuxi was third, Nanjing fourth and Ningbo fifth. Forbes China short-listed 194 mainland cities from a pool of 652 candidates wit...
Chinese poultry meat will soon appear on European dinner tables under a European Union (EU) decision, effective on Tuesday, to lift a six-year import ban. The European Commission (EC) has released a list of nine Chinese companies, all in the eastern Shandong Province, that were approved to export heat-treated poultry meat products to the EU. The E...
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