Chinese business leaders say they are keen to work more closely with Australian companies on research and development projects, urging both countries to look outside the traditional trade relationship and to capitalise on the “ideas…
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Smog-hit Beijing plans 'green necklace' to block pollution
BEIJING Beijing and the surrounding province of Hebei will plant trees, establish green belts and make use of rivers and wetlands to create a “green necklace” to protect China’s smog-hit capital from pollution, the Hebei…
Why is Spain in the middle of a spat between China and Taiwan?
These are external links and will open in a new window Spain could soon become the first European Union country to extradite Taiwanese criminal suspects to China, instead of their home island. In December, a…
Canada joins China-backed Asian infrastructure bank
The bank has does not limit participation to members. Joining, however, carries other benefits, said John Gruetzner, a Canadian business consultant with extensive experience in China, and co-founder of the Ottawa-based China Policy Centre. It’s…
Trade mission to China part of goal to quadruple P.E.I. sales
A trade mission from P.E.I. to China covering the end of March is a big part of a strategy to quadruple sales from the Island by 2025, says Premier Wade MacLauchlan. Food is currently the…
China rebuffs South Korea WTO complaint, says respects rules
… said that China pays great attention to developing economic and trade relations between China and South Korea,” Sun told a regular news briefing. China has noted comments from a South Korean minister that there…
Business with China only sometimes a deal-breaker for Trump
Anthony Scaramucci announced to the world in January that he would be leaving Wall Street for the White House to become President Donald Trump’s top public liaison. Not long after, Scaramucci was told by Trump’s…
Facial recognition software targets toilet paper thieves in China
But until recently, the bathrooms of Beijing’s Temple of Heaven, a complex of religious buildings constructed in 1420, carried rolls upon rolls of the white stuff. Unfortunately, toilet paper thieves, who had long frustrated Beijing…
Beijing park unrolls high-tech plan to thwart toilet paper thieves
Beijing’s Temple of Heaven park is using facial recognition software to bring its bathrooms into the 21 st Century and thwart thieves with a penchant for swiping its toilet paper stash. The system, which has…
China tells cornerstones to bring money home in blow for smaller HK IPOs: sources
HONG KONG China has made it mandatory for mainland cornerstone investors in Hong Kong IPOs to repatriate funds when they sell their shares, a rule likely to hit smaller, cornerstone-reliant listings, four people with knowledge…
Big brokerage IPO requires faith in Chinese reform
China’s second-biggest brokerage is expected to raise $2 billion … Shares in recently listed peers Orient and Everbright, for example, trade below their IPO price and underperform the benchmark Hang Seng Index. On the other…
China business confidence index rises in Q1 – cbank survey
BEIJING, March 21 Business confidence among entrepreneurs in China improved in the first quarter of 2017 from the fourth quarter last year, according to a survey by the People’s Bank of China published on Tuesday.…
Airbnb embarks on China push with more staff, local name
“Chinese millennials, they are a huge market – nearly half a billion people, 400 million Chinese millennials and they represent 80 percent of our business here in China,” he said. “Our idea is to bring…
