• Global Movie Ticket Sales Rise 1% as China Surges

    Sales in the United States and Canada fell about 5 percent in 2014, but in China they rose 34 percent.

  • Business News: China picks Kenya as its continental industrial hub

    Kenya is set to beat Ethiopia and Tanzania as China's preferred African industrial nerve centre owing to its reforming business environment and incentive framework.

  • Business: China picks Kenya as its continental industrial hub

    Kenya is set to beat Ethiopia and Tanzania as China's preferred African industrial nerve centre owing to its reforming business environment and incentive framework.

  • China output, sales and investment growth at multi-year lows: govt

    BEIJING - Growth in China's industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment all fell to multi-year lows during January and February, official data showed Wednesday, as the world's second-largest economy expands at its slowest pace in a quarter century.

  • Secretary General of Foreign Ministry to visit China Wednesday

    ALGIERS-Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdelhamid Senouci Bereksi will start Wednesday a four-day working visit to China as part of regular political consultations between the two countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. These consultations "will include the preparation of important diplomatic meetings ...

  • China Feb retail sales rise 10.7%

    Chinese retail sales and industrial production rise less than expected in February.

  • Joint venture with China backed for rail

    A joint venture between Thailand and China will be set up to build a Thai-Chinese train project, Transport Minister Prajin Juntong said on Tuesday.

  • China's border city looks to S. Korea after trade deal

    The Chinese border city of Dandong, known for its bustling trade with North Korea, has unveiled a plan to become a "brid

  • Business News: China outwits peers, dominates EA's major infrastructure projects

    China accounted for over Sh1.8 trillion ($20 billion) worth of infrastructure development in East Africa last year, indicating the country's growing influence in the region's infrastructure development.

  • Business: China outwits peers, dominates EA's major infrastructure projects

    China accounted for over Sh1.8 trillion ($20 billion) worth of infrastructure development in East Africa last year, indicating the country's growing influence in the region's infrastructure development.

  • China Car Sales Get a Tap on The Brakes

    China’s car sales growth at the start of the year slowed from a year ago, weighed by the cooling economy.

  • China’s auto sales growth decelerates in February

    Pic: AP. BEIJING (AP) — China’s auto sales growth decelerated in February while strong demand for Chinese-made SUVs helped to offset weakness in sales of domestic sedans. An industry group, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said Tuesday that sales in the world’s biggest auto market rose 6.4 percent to 1.4 million ...

  • 10 Mar China Watcher

    Come è cambiata la Cina a due anni dall’ascesa al potere di Xi Jinping? Come sta affrontando il nuovo leader le sfide interne ed esterne al paese? Riuscirà a garantire un modello di sviluppo più equilibrato e sostenibile? Come cambiano le prospettive se non si guarda alla Cina nel suo ...

  • Hyundai and Kia See Sales Down Sharply in China

    China’s home-grown car makers are enjoying a robust growth. According to NH Investment & Securities, the number of cars sold in China last month totaled 1,331,000 units, up 28.9 percent from a year ago. China’s six major local auto makers achieved a 62.7-percent growth in sales.   In contrast to the rapid ...

  • China to launch Guangdong free trade zone March 18: trade body

    [GUANGDONG] China plans to launch the Guangdong free trade zone (FTZ) on March 18, less than two years after its Shanghai FTZ was rolled out, according to a trade association in the province.

  • China offers economic incentives in exchange for S. Korea

    China has promised increased trade and business with South Korea in exchange for Seoul rejecting a U.S. bid to deploy th

  • Business Beat: Kenya's manufacturing sector losing out to China, India - report

    A surging current account deficit, lack of competitiveness and low productivity are stunting Kenya's manufacturing sector growth. This has reduced the sector's capacity to create new jobs, making Kenya lose her place in the international market

  • Business: Kenya's manufacturing sector losing out to China, India - report

    A surging current account deficit, lack of competitiveness and low productivity are stunting Kenya's manufacturing sector growth. This has reduced the sector's capacity to create new jobs, making Kenya lose her place in the international market

  • Obama’s pro-trade allies fight claims about China’s currency manipulation

    U.S. President Barack Obama. Pic: AP. WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of President Barack Obama’s trade agenda are battling opponents’ demands that China be barred from keeping its currency value artificially low. Such “currency manipulation” can subsidize exports by making local products more affordable to foreigners. The accusations frustrate and challenge Obama’s allies on ...

  • Business: China to strictly regulate online commerce

    China's market regulator said Monday the government will strictly regulate online commerce, amid a heated public dispute over China's largest online shopping platform Taobao.com which was found to match-make transactions of a great number of shoddy commodities.

  • China is Obama's trump card in push for Pacific Rim trade pact

    WASHINGTON — As the White House looks to wrap up years of negotiations on a highly contested Pacific Rim trade pact, administration officials are increasingly casting the agreement as vital to helping the U.S. face its most daunting economic rival: China.