Ford Motor, hoping to become a full-fledged rival to foreign luxury brands in a key world market, plans to start making Lincolns in China starting in 2019. Lincoln will “produce an all-new SUV in China”…
Monthly Archives For March 2017
Chinese mobile app economy growing on fast track
China’s booming mobile app market will continue to expand with rising smart device penetration and mobilization of more traditional businesses, according to a leading industry observer. “China’s app economy is accelerating in growth, putting it…
Beijing home sales remain at record levels despite curbs
Beijing home sales remain at record levels despite toughened home-buying rules being imposed on the city. The capital city sold 1,491 primary residential units from March 6 to 12, representing 24 per cent growth on…
China property sales surge despite gov't efforts to cool market
BEIJING China’s property sales surged in the first two months of the year despite government measures to cool the market, though growth in real estate investment showed signs of easing, according to official data on…
RPT-China Jan-Feb property investment rises 8.9 pct y/y
BEIJING, March 14 China’s real estate investment growth slowed to 8.9 percent in the first two months of 2017 from the same period a year earlier, while property sales sped up despite government cooling measures,…
No firm evidence of China retaliation in missile spat – South Korea finance minister
SEJONG, South Korea South Korea does not have firm evidence that China has retaliated for Seoul’s deployment of a U.S. missile defence system, so no action has been taken against Beijing, South Korea’s finance minister…
China calls for a 'people's war' against fanatics as it warns that Islamic extremism is spreading through the country
Mr Ahan, who is ethnically Kazakh, is a member of the standing committee of the Communist Party of China in Xinjiang and the deputy secretary of the Commission of Politics and Law in Xinjiang. He…
South China Sea: Japan to deploy largest warship
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea in May, three sources said … the sources told Reuters news agency. The carrier will then return to Japan…
China lawmakers add defaming Party heroes to civil code offences
China’s ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC), an annual … according to a report on Monday by the official Xinhua News Agency. Continued… View article on single page ( read original story …)
China may roll back electric car quotas as industry pushes back
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is considering easing proposed quotas aimed at producing more electric vehicles, as Beijing gets pushback from the automotive industry over the scale and pace of the plans. If adopted, proposed changes…
Philippines' Duterte asks military to tell China vast sea area 'is ours'
repeating that his country has no option but to be diplomatic because “I cannot match the might of China.” “My order to my military, you go there and tell them straight that this is ours,…
China law would outlaw insults to Communist heroes, martyrs
BEIJING — Damaging the reputation and honour of heroes and martyrs could be a civil offence under a proposed draft of China’s civil law as the Communist Party further tightens the space for public discourse…
China buoys stainless production totals in 2016
However, production growth in China easily outstripped the world average in leaping 15.7% year on year to 24.938 million tonnes, thereby accounting for more than 55% of total world output in 2016. In the Western…