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Shanghai officials publish a ‘negative list’ of banned or restricted industries for its recently launched free trade zone. Continue reading → ...

organization Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia double their monthly wages to $160 this year. Police moved into the camp on the weekend, pulling down temporary speaker platforms, overturning food stalls and pushing people away from the park, the BBC reported. The break-up of the camp ended nearly a month of mostly peaceful protests, but not before four people were killed in fighting with...

s president Monday to help break a $1.6-billion impasse that threatens to halt work on a major expansion of the Panama Canal. Spanish Public Works Minister Ana Pastor arrived in the Central American country late Sunday and is to meet President Ricardo Martinelli and Panama Canal Authority Administrator Jorge Quijano. Pastor's goal is to mediate in a conflict between Panama and the construction group...

s Maeil Business Newspaper and China's Global Times, found around 80 percent of Japanese executives have no problem dealing with companies from the other two countries. That stands in marked contrast to just 13 percent of Chinese businessmen who said they were able to separate their company's dealings from the diplomatic frostiness. Tokyo is at odds with both Beijing and Seoul over different territorial...

Gold smuggling spikes as India is in the midst of its golden wedding season and ever-increasing gold import duties. Continue reading → ...

Small-batch European wine and beer producers see TTIP as opportunity to expand the selection of products available to U.S. consumers. Continue reading → ...

s 2008 earthquake. Then he sold "canned fresh air" to residents of smog-ridden Beijing. Now Chen Guangbiao, listed as one of China's 400 richest people and a man known as much for his publicity stunts as his wealth, claims he is in talks to buy the New York Times. "Soon, I will go to America to do three things," Chen told a crowd Monday night at a news media award reception in the southern Chinese...

A review of the US’s ongoing negotiations and FTAs Continue reading → ...

Starting in May of 2014, impending US regulation will require publically-traded manufacturers to disclose whether the metals in their products are conflict free. Continue reading → ...

Did you know that real champagne only comes from Champagne, France? Here are the facts on these celebratory bubbles! Continue reading → ...

s largest aluminium producer, has triggered a judicial review of plans by the London Metal Exchange to reform how it stockpiles commodities, the LME's owner said on Tuesday. Russian company Rusal filed a claim in the English High Court on Monday, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said in a statement. The Hong Kong bourse last year bought the LME, which is the world's biggest metals exchange. Rusal opposes...

s woes. As they creep deeper into recession, the Finns may turn east for investment, while trying to forget a century under the Tsar followed by two hot wars and a cold one against the Soviets. "There might be some prejudices," said Heli Simola at the Institute for Economies in Transition in Helsinki. "But these attitudes aren't an obstacle for commercial exchanges." Fresh data released by the Finnish...

Moscow (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Russia has accused the European Union of violating global free trade measures in its first complaint before the World Trade Organisation, the economy ministry said Tuesday. The procedure has to do with "a violation by the EU of anti-dumping provisions of the WTO agreement," said spokeswoman Yulia Chkanikova. The complaint is the first Russia has filed since it joined the...

s business practices, despite significant progress since the country's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its findings in its annual report to Congress on China's compliance with WTO regulations. "While progress was made on some meaningful issues ... many issues of concern remain," the USTR report said. The United States has denounced...

re trying to do something about this. Petri Paarnio, director of Santa Claus Licencing, the firm that holds the rights to market the Santa Claus name in Finland, wants to see him bring joy to children's hearts but also to generate business -- all year round and all around the world, starting with China. "Santa Claus is an icon. He stands for symbols like good health, solidarity, and values like giving...

s largest free-trade area to boost growth and jobs in their huge economies. US and EU trade officials wrapped up five days of negotiations in Washington, where the talks began in July, to hammer out the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an ambitious agreement to expand trade, investment and regulatory cooperation. The two economies combined make up 40 percent of output in the world...

s promise to make a fresh attempt to join a global government procurement deal. "There was a commitment to provide a revised offer in 2014 to join the World Trade Organization government procurement agreement," US Trade Representative Michael Froman told reporters at the conclusion of the 24th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. "This offer would be commensurate on the whole with the other...

s 12-year-old son, Shun Yu Kok, from its rear. The bodies of the three other occupants were not found, however, and were believed washed away by strong currents. The two specialised sonar units were being zig-zagged across the river by boats through the night while more than 100 police using sniffer dogs scoured the river banks. Police helicopters had also been used during daylight to fly over an expanded...

s biggest trading platform BTC China, up more than 70 percent from an intra-day low of 2,011 yuan on Wednesday. But despite the recovery the Bitcoin price in China lagged behind those on major global exchanges. Price differences between them are usually small. Bitcoins were trading at $714 each on Japan's Mt. Gox and being quoted at $665 on UK-based BitStamp, data from their respective websites showed....

s biggest trading platform BTC China banned deposits in yuan following new restrictions reportedly imposed by the central bank. Chinese speculators have driven Bitcoin prices into the financial stratosphere this year, peaking at 7,588.88 yuan (now $1,250) on November 30. By late Wednesday they stood at 2,245 yuan, more than 70 percent lower, and down 42.7 percent from their 24-hour high after skidding...