Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'business'
EU presses China over fake goods
By BBC News 01 September 2010 The EU has urged China to step up the fight against black market exports, saying counterfeit cigarettes alone are depriving the EU of 10bn euros (£8bn) in tax revenue annually. The EU Commissioner for...
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years
By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 05, 2010 An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry...
Strikes Spread in China
By Radio Free AsiaJune 09, 2010 Does labor action signal the end of the low-wage era? A series of high-profile labor disputes likely signals the end of low-cost manufacturing in China, as workers walk out at three Honda plants in...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
China's Dwindling Resource
By Philip Bowring (International Herald Tribune Op-Ed Contributor) | The New York TimesJune 03, 2010 A strike at Honda's plant at Foshan in southern China. Suicides and labor unrest at the giant Foxconn factory not far away in Shenzhen. Everywhere in...
Is China Headed for a Crash?
By PHILIP BOWRING | Op-Ed Contributor | International Herald Tribune | The New York TimesMay 11, 2010 China talk is confusing. The Shanghai stock market is at its lowest level in eight months, with the real estate sector especially hard-hit....
More foreign firms feel unwelcome in China
By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 22, 2010 A growing number of foreign businesses in China feel shut out under new government policies promoting homegrown technology, according a survey released Monday. Fully 38 percent of...
Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...
Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2009 Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists' advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings...
World Out of Balance
By Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist | The New York TimesNovember 16, 2009 International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy...
China's troubling currency policy places world, U.S. in a quandary
The Sacramento Bee | Paul Krugman October 24, 2009 Senior monetary officials usually talk in code. So when Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, spoke recently about Asia, international imbalances and the financial crisis, he didn't specifically criticize China's outrageous...
China Spreads Aid in Africa, With a Catch
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMESSeptember 22, 2009 WINDHOEK, Namibia -- It is not every day that global leaders set foot in this southern African nation of gravel roads, towering sand dunes and a mere...
China Tightens Grip on Rare Minerals
By Keith Bradsher | The New York Times01 September 2009 China is set to tighten its hammerlock on the market for some of the world's most obscure but valuable minerals. China currently accounts for 93 percent of production of so-called...
China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free
By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok | FORBES MAGAZINE via forbes.comAugust 07, 2009 In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and...
Graft Inquiry in Namibia Finds Clues in China
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesJuly 22, 2009 To the likely consternation of diplomats in both Beijing and faraway Windhoek, a newly minted initiative by Namibia's government to root out official corruption has snared an early catch: three...
Despite Law, Job Conditions Worsen in China
By David Barboza | The New York Times June 23, 2009 Liu Pan, a 17-year-old factory worker, was crushed to death last April when the machine he was operating malfunctioned. Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister...
India to ensure ban on Chinese toys
By Sujay Mehdudia | The Hindu (India)February 08, 2009 Brushing aside the threat by China of dragging India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Friday plugged the loopholes in the rules that could...
China's coming collapse: hidden crisis, global financial mess, corruption
By Centro de Medios Independientes Valparaiso (Chile)December 13, 2008 Is China about to collapse due to hidden crises and corruption? Is global financial crisis impacting China? Is a runaway government corruption destroying Chinese economy and peace? What is really behind...
China Tries To Make Exxon A Pawn
By INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILYJuly 21, 2008 Energy: Big Oil is easy to kick around -- just ask any Democrat in Congress. But China's threats to Exxon Mobil are in another league. Its bid to use Exxon Mobil as a wedge...
China's Visa Policy Threatens Olympics Tourism
By David Barboza | The New York Times June 24, 2008 The plush lobby of Beijing's Kerry Center Hotel is usually crowded with foreign guests, many of them listening to jazz and sipping martinis in Centro, the hotel's fashionable bar,...
Bracing for Games, China Sets Rules That Complicate Life for Foreigners
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times 24 August 2008 In little more than 100 days, China will open its arms to a deluge of foreigners, many of whom will be pleasantly surprised to find a dizzying array of...
The 'China honeymoon' is over
By David Shambaugh | International Herald TribuneNovember 26, 2007 For Europe, the "China honeymoon" is over. As the 10th European Union-China summit meeting convenes in Beijing this week, and after 15 years of rapidly and dramatically developing ties, there are...
Shin Kong Mitsukoshi executive barred from leaving China: report
By Agence France-PresseSeptember 02, 2007 The head of the Taiwan-based Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store chain's Beijing operation has been barred from leaving China over a management dispute, a report here said Saturday. Steven Wu, general manager of Shin Kong...
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