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Xin Jing spends about 200 yuan ($30) on Japanese sashimi each time she visits City’super’s grocery store in Shanghai. Her appetite is helping fill cargo planes bound for China, boosting profit at Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

The use of convict labourers on overseas projects is damaging China's international reputation China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as labourers on overseas projects in the developing world. The practice has exposed another facet of China's egregious human rights record which, when it comes to the overseas operations of Chinese ...

China and Taiwan: in war we trust Asia Times Online While Taiwan, just as any other country or region in the world, appreciates doing business with China, it wants to keep China's military at bay. ... and more »

About 600 business leaders, government officials and entrepreneurs will gather in Detroit this fall to learn about international trade opportunities for green technologies and possible solutions to financing problems.

Recurring financial crises of past decades had clearly exposed the instability of globalized unregulated financial markets and the great danger that poses for the economic wellbeing of defenseless developing countries participating in such markets.

One of the major sore points in China's relationship with the United States is Washington's demand that Beijing float its currency or at least lift the value of the yuan.

BEIJING - The nation has notched up a victory against the United States after a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruled in China's favor in a dispute over the ban on imports of Chinese chicken, sources with the Commerce Ministry said on Wednesday.

China to finance $2.6 billion Bahamian resort

Xin Jing spends about 200 yuan ($30) on Japanese sashimi each time she visits City’super’s grocery store in Shanghai. Her appetite is helping fill cargo planes bound for China, boosting profit at Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.