Yuan’s rise hits China-based exporters: US business leader
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2008 (AFP) - The rapid appreciation of the Chinese currency against the US dollar is taking a big toll on Asian companies using China as …
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2008 (AFP) - The rapid appreciation of the Chinese currency against the US dollar is taking a big toll on Asian companies using China as …
NEW DELHI, May 2, 2008 (AFP) - Indian steelmaker Essar Steel said Thursday it planned to acquire US steel company Esmark, valuing the deal at 1. online …
April 30, 2008 (AFP) - The dollar was little changed in Asian trade on Wednesday as investors sat on their hands ahead of a Federal Reserve interest rate …
BANGKOK, April 30, 2008 (AFP) - Thailand's prime minister said Wednesday his country had agreed in principle to form a rice price-fixing cartel with Myanmar, …
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2008 (AFP) - The United States on Tuesday released 40 million dollars in emergency aid for the World Food Program (WFP) to help deal with …
BEIJING, April 28, 2008 (AFP) - China is loosing some of its attractiveness to foreign investors as rising costs are forcing some US manufacturing firms to …
GENEVA, April 28, 2008 (AFP) - The food crisis is bringing about a role reversal in the World Trade Organization: traditionally liberal major food exporters …
MUMBAI, April 29, 2008 (AFP) - India's central bank on Tuesday held key interest rates steady but hiked the percentage of cash banks must hold in reserve to …
FRANKFURT, April 29, 2008 (AFP) - German insurer Allianz said Tuesday that its first quarter net profit will slump to a third of what it was in the …
CEBU, Philippines, April 29, 2008 (AFP) - President Gloria Arroyo on Tuesday urged fellow Filipinos to boil rice with yams or to eat cheaper cereals to avoid …
FRANKFURT, April 29, 2008 (AFP) - An internal probe at German industrial group Siemens has found that almost all its sectors of activity were subject to active …
SINGAPORE, April 28, 2008 (AFP) - World oil prices hit an intraday record near 120 dollars a barrel on Monday after the shutdown of a major North Sea pipeline …
HO CHI MINH CITY, April 28, 2008 (AFP) - Vietnam's government Monday said the country has sufficient rice stocks and threatened to punish speculators who hoard …
DJIBOUTI, April 28, 2008 (AFP) - Moses once parted the Red Sea ...online pharmacy …
NEW DELHI, April 28, 2008 (AFP) - Global aviation giants on Monday submitted bids to sell 126 warplanes to India -- the world's richest fighter aircraft deal …
MUMBAI, April 27, 2008 (AFP) - India's largest private-sector lender ICICI Bank on Saturday beat forecasts with a nearly 40 percent rise in fourth-quarter net …
PAYERNE, Switzerland, April 26, 2008 (AFP) - A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-metre (2,130-foot) drop Saturday using a replica of …
LONDON, April 27, 2008 (AFP) - Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal remains the wealthiest person in Britain, The Sunday Times newspaper's 2008 annual Rich …
HANOI, April 27, 2008 (AFP) - Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and …
LONDON, April 25, 2008 (AFP) - British competition authorities alleged on Friday that two cigarette companies and eleven retailers had engaged in "unlawful …