(Reuters) – Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons is pushing into China with plans to open 1,500 outlets in the world’s second largest economy over the next 10 years, the company said on Wednesday. Restau… (…
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Fast beauty: Korean contract manufacturers are key to cosmetics brands’ success in China
SEOUL — At a factory two hours south of Seoul, women clad in plastic caps and masks put peach-colored eye-shadow into cases, right next to a machine churning out a skin-color face powder. The differen……
J-beauty brands look beyond China success
TOKYO — The flood of Chinese tourists to Japan has given a fresh uplift to the high-end beauty products market. Buoyed with success, some niche brands are now venturing beyond China. Nagoya-based MTG … (…
China says will hit back after U.S. proposes fresh tariffs on $200 billion in goods
China could also limit visits to the United States by Chinese tourists, a business state media said is worth $115 billion, or shed some of its U.S. Treasury holdings, Iris Pang, Greater China economis… (…
In Beijing, Doors Shut on a Bastion of Independent Ideas
BEIJING — An independent think tank that was one of China’s few remaining bastions for liberal-democratic ideas was shut out of its Beijing offices on Wednesday, throwing its survival into doubt. Some … ( read…
BEIJING | China sentences veteran rights activist to 13 years’ prison
BEIJING — China on Wednesday sentenced a veteran pro-democracy campaigner to 13 years in prison on vaguely defined subversion charges, one day after releasing the widow of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate … ( read…
Citi readies for Asia investment surge with new China desk as trade war intensifies
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc will set up a China business desk in India within the year betting on a pickup in investment flows within the Asian region, its Asia-Pacific corporate banking head ……
China vows retaliation for latest US tariff threat
BEIJING — China slammed the U.S. threat to expand tariff hikes to imports including apples, fish sticks and French doors as a “totally unacceptable” escalation of their trade battle and vowed Wednesda… ( read original…
BMW to make electric MINIs in China
BEIJING — BMW Group and the biggest Chinese SUV brand, Great Wall Motor, announced a partnership Tuesday to produce electric MINI vehicles in China as global automakers ramp up development under pres… ( read original…
U.S. set to hit China with tariffs on $200-billion of goods in trade-war escalation
They are meant to put pressure on China to stop stealing U.S. companies’ trade secrets and forcing them to hand over intellectual property to Chinese firms as a condition of doing business there. Inst… (…
BEIJING | China lets Nobel widow leave for Berlin after house arrest
BEIJING — In the fall of 2010, Liu Xia traveled to a prison in northeast China to tell her husband, the dissident intellectual Liu Xiaobo, that he had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.…
BEIJING | Tesla will build its 1st factory outside US in Shanghai
BEIJING — Electric car producer Tesla will build its first factory outside the United States in Shanghai, becoming the first wholly foreign-owned automaker in China. Tesla Inc.’s announcement comes am… ( read original story …)
Tesla’s China factory: Will it ever be built?
Elon Musk in 2015 told the Chinese news media that Tesla might begin producing cars at a new China manufacturing plant “within three years.” Three years later, no plant has been built. Construction ha… (…
