Local government business regulators in about 20 cities and provinces began seizing iPads or were preparing to do so, state media said, after a court ruled that a Chinese subsidiary of a Hong Kong-listed firm owned the trademark. An assistant at an authorized Apple dealer in Shanghai said his store had removed iPads from...
Bloomberg News Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping jokes in the home of Roger and Sarah Lande in Muscatine, Iowa Wednesday February 15, 2012, about receiving a gift of popcorn during his first visit to Iowa in 1985. While Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to Iowa this week pushed U.S. farms...
BEIJING — China, the world’s second-largest economy, said Thursday the next World Bank president should be selected on merit, going against a tradition that dictates the bank’s head is an American. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday he will step down on June 30 at the end of a five-year term, during which he...
The trade issue is important because Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China linked it in a speech last September to the question of whether China would help bail out the European Union with large loans. While Mr. Wen and other Chinese officials have asserted since then that they would not use the prospect of...
The European Union may impose tariffs on pipe fittings and ceramic tableware from China, the latest evidence of the Chinese threat to higher-cost EU producers. The EU opened inquiries into whether Chinese manufacturers of “threaded tube or pipe cast fittings” and of ceramic tableware and kitchenware sell them in the 27-nation bloc below cost,...
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By Rajendra Jadhav and Rujun Shen MUMBAI/SINGAPORE | Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:16pm IST MUMBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Wild price swings caused by a volatile rupee sapped Indian buying interest in gold in the fourth quarter of 2011, with imports well short of expectations and no pick up expected this year, dropping it behind China...
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HONG KONG — China is poised to overtake India to become the world’s biggest gold market this year as rising incomes fuel demand for the precious metal and a weak rupee diminishes Indian purchases, an industry group said Thursday. The amount of gold bought in China rose 20 percent in 2011 over the year before...
By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING | Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:31am EST BEIJING (Reuters) – China disapproves of armed intervention or regime change in Syria, a minister said on Thursday before leaving on the first official trip to Syria since Beijing blocked a U.N. resolution calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step...
