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JAKARTA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Foreign investor kept hunting for Indonesia's central bank certificate (SBI) to gain temporary profit with total foreign fund allocation of 15.5 trillion rupiah (about 1.55 billion U.S. dollars) in July to 36.2 trillion rup...
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HANOI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's revenue in the first seven months of this year was estimated at 222.12 trillion Vietnamese dong (about 12.47 billion U.S. dollars), down 10 percent from the same period last year, said a repo...
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2009-08-05
S. Korea's IT exports shrink 10% in July
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- South Korea saw a year-on-year 10.2 percent decrease in exports of information technology (IT) products in July, mainly due to sluggish overseas demand, a government report showed Wednesday.
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2009-08-05
New Zealand PM announces enhanced RSE scheme
CAIRNS, Australia, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Wednesday announced the establishment of a pilot program that will deliver skills training to visiting Pacific workers taking part in the Recognized Seasonal Employer (R... -
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's overseas investments were cut in half during the first six months from a year earlier amid a prolonged global recession, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Wednesday that the country is already leaving the global financial crisis behind.
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MEXICO CITY, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's economy may shrink 7.5 percent this year, the country's central bank, Bank of Mexico, said in its quarterly inflation report Wednesday.
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BEIJING, July 29 -- Iron ore imports into one of China's main ports are set to slump by up to 50 percent over the next few months in the wake of events surrounding the Rio Tinto affair, according to a leading official.
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TOKYO, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks opened slightly higher Thursday on a weaker yen which benefits exporters and the rise of industrial output for the fourth straight month.
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JAKARTA, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's largest state-run and private banks, Bank Mandiri and Bank Central Asia (BCA), booked tremendous operation growths in the first half this year, the Jakarta Post reported here on Thursday.
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WELLINGTON, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government is relaxing entry conditions for business migrants to encourage investment in the country.
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2009-07-28
Tokyo stocks close flat on profit-taking
TOKYO, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed flat Tuesday with the key Nikkei index down 0.01 percent as investors took profits after a nine-day winning streak.
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JAKARTA, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Foreign investors remain confident on Indonesia despite bomb blasts in South Jakarta on Friday, July 17, a foreign banker told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
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SEOUL, July 28 (Xinhua) -- South Korea saw its manufacturing sentiment rise to a 14-month high for August on the back of rising optimism on an economic recovery, the central bank said Tuesday.
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BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The confidence of Chinese entrepreneurs in the domestic macro economy had picked up, as the entrepreneurs confidence index reached 68.4 percent in the second quarter this year, 7.2 percentage points higher from the fi...
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2009-07-28
China's GDP to grow around 9% in Q3: report
BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- China's economy showed more signs of recovery and was likely to grow by around nine percent in the third quarter, a senior economist told Xinhua Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The volume of the bilateral trade between China and Thailand is targeted to rise to 50 billion U.S. dollars in 2010, Lu Junqing, executive chairman of the World Eminence Chinese Business Association told the Thai-Chinese Bu...
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BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai municipal government plans to give district-level authorities the power to clear foreign investment projects with an investment of up to 100 million U.S. dollars from August 1,...
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URUMQI, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Carrefour, the France-based supermarket chain, reopened its flagship store in Urumqi Thursday after a 17-day closure forced by the July 5 violence.
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BEIJING, July 23 -- China is expected to overtake Germany as the world's top merchandise exporter this year due to a weak performance of the European economy, an official with the World Trade Organization said Wednesday.
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2009-07-24
S. Korea, U.S. to hold talks on trade issues
SEOUL, July 24 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the United States will hold a two-day meeting in Washington next week to talk over trade issues, Seoul's trade ministry said Friday.
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SEOUL, July 24 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's top chipmaker, SamsungElectronics Co., said Friday that its second-quarter earnings exceeded its previous estimate thanks to a boom its mobile handsetand liquid crystal display (LCD) panel sales.
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2009-07-24
S. Korean shares close highest in 2009
SEOUL, July 24 (Xinhua) -- South Korean shares closed 0.41 percent higher Friday, reaching the highest level in 2009, on theback of large cap companies' earning surprises.
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BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry (ZPMC), the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty equipment, inked a deal worth 2.2 billion U.S. dollars with Spanish marine oil and gas explorer ADHK for supply of offshore engineering ...
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BEIJING, July 21 -- The Chinese government's low-key approach to the detention of four Rio Tinto employees showcases its determination to handle the case legally, as well as its desire to establish a fair international commercial environment, a C...
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SINGAPORE, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan officiated at the opening of Li-Ning's badminton flagship store in Singapore, its first store in Asia outside China.
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BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai Waigaoqiao Group, China's largest free trade zone operator owned by the Shanghai municipal government, will inject its remaining real estate assets into its publicly traded unit, the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade ...
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BEIJIGN, July 22 -- Many college students applying for credit cards are feeling the pinch as bankers take more prudent steps when issuing them the cards.
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PHNOM PENH, July 22 (Xinhua) -- China's Taiwan is the leading investor in Cambodia's garment sector with 68 factories out of 274 in operation, local media reported on Wednesday.
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2009-07-18
Clean energy to be focus of Sino-US talks
BEIJING, July 13 -- Stronger Sino-US cooperation on clean energy will be the goal of two US officials who will be visiting China this week.
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Ste...







