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  • Chinese vase fetches record $69m in UK auction

    2010-11-12 11:17

    A Chinese vase discovered during a routine house clearance in a London suburb sold for 43 million pounds on Thursday, 40 times its estimate and an auction record for any work of art from Asia.

  • G20 leaders convene in Seoul as summit kicks off

    2010-11-12 09:47

    Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders of the Group of 20 members on Friday gathered in Seoul to address the challenges to the ongoing global economic recovery.

  • Investment, corporate social responsibility 'timely and important'

    2010-11-12 08:08

    I am pleased to send greetings to all the participants in the 4th International CEO Roundtable of Chinese and Foreign Multinational Corporations. Your focus on investment, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development is timely and important.

  • Asia-Pacific ministers eye huge free trade area

    2010-11-11 13:08

    Asia-Pacific trade and foreign ministers on Thursday urged economies in the world's fastest growing region to avoid protectionism and pledged to work toward creating a vast free trade area.

  • US new move piles appreciation pressure on Brazil

    2010-11-11 09:51

    The new quantitive easing move taken by the US government last week has further increased appreciation pressure on the Brazilian currency real.

  • China warns against rise of trade protectionism

    2010-11-11 06:41

    Countries need to guard against the rise of trade protectionism as uncertainties remain in the world economy, a senior Chinese trade official said on Wednesday.

  • Singapore Airlines pulls 3 A380s due to engines

    2010-11-10 19:33

    Tests uncovered oil stains in three Rolls-Royce engines on Singapore Airlines' A380 superjumbos, prompting the airline to yank the planes from service Wednesday just two days after Qantas announced troubling oil leaks on their A380s.

  • G20 Biz Summit zooms on public-private co-op

    2010-11-09 13:29

    Business leaders participating in the Seoul G20 Business Summit will seek ways to strengthen public-private partnership for strong, sustainable, and balanced growth, the head of the organizing committee said Tuesday.

  • ROK, US push for FTA ahead of G20 summit

    2010-11-09 13:21

    Top trade officials from the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States began Tuesday the second day of negotiations aimed at ironing out differences on their two-way trade pact before their presidents meet later this week for the G-20 summit here.

  • UK's Cameron seeks to double trade with China

    2010-11-09 09:10

    British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was aiming to double bilateral trade with China to more than $100 billion a year by 2015 as he was due to arrive in Beijing on Tuesday at the head of a major trade mission.

  • UK names business ambassadors to aid foreign trade

    2010-11-09 09:03

    Some of Britain's top private sector leaders have been appointed business ambassadors to promote overseas trade, the government said on Tuesday.

  • Qantas grounds A380s for 72 hours

    2010-11-08 18:02

    Australia's Qantas Airways has grounded its A380 fleet for at least another three days as it investigates oil leaks as a possible cause of the explosion which tore apart one of the superjumbo's engines last week.

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