BEIJING | Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:12pm GMT BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Thursday it would not accept an invitation to discuss the brewing civil war in Syria with other world powers this week in the Tunisian capital. The Friends of Syria, backed by Western powers and the Arab League, will meet in...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at Russia and China over their Syria policy Friday, at the conclusion of a meeting in Tunis designed to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its supporters to allow democratic change. Secretary Clinton said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will have even more blood on his...
By Fang Yan and Ken Wills CHONGQING (Reuters) – Ford Motor (NYSE:F – News) is on track to double the number of dealerships in China by 2015, its country chief said on Friday, as it launches a half-billion-dollar plant and races to narrow the gap with foreign rivals in the world’s largest auto market....
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Xi Jinping, Vice President of China, and a delegation of 150 officials visited us in Europe last weekend, stopping off in beleaguered Ireland (“The Chinese are here — look busy,” the Irish Times warned in its page one headline.) Because he is likely to become China’s next leader, questions...
Reuters A migrant worker (3rd R) and his son sit on their bed as his wife uses a facial mask at a dormitory of a construction site in Shenyang, Liaoning province in this May 25, 2011 file photo. China’s government has published long-awaited regulations allowing millions of migrant workers from the countryside to obtain...
Employees assemble photovoltaic panels at Suntech Power Holdings Co.’s factory in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg China set targets for increasing production capacity at “key” polysilicon and solar cell makers to boost domestic installations and spur expansion even as prices tumble amid a global supply glut. China...
By Alison Leung HONG KONG | Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:27am EST HONG KONG (Reuters) – Private jet operators in Hong Kong are adding aircraft at a rapid pace as more wealthy mainland Chinese keep luxury aircraft in the city to avoid bureaucratic hurdles and taxes at home, but a lack of infrastructure could...
LOS ANGELES/HONG KONG — A Chinese firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant’s home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses it of employing deception when it bought the trademark. A unit of Proview International Holdings Ltd, a major...
South Korean media is reporting that China has sent nine North Korean defectors home, despite warnings their lives are at risk. The Yonhap news agency says that the refugees were sent back last weekend. It says that about 30 North Korean other refugees have been caught by Chinese authorities this month and are awaiting repatriation. The Chosun...
When Guo Sicheng looks at American basketball sensation Jeremy Lin, he can almost see himself. Like Lin, Guo — a 21-year-old college student in Beijing — is athletic, intelligent and ethnically Chinese. He says he hopes that “in the future, Chinese basketball can produce someone like Lin.” But while the California-born Lin’s ethnicity has...
