China’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.8% in October and 3% in November, the fastest in six years, leading some economists to wonder if China’s deflationary trend is finally bottoming out.
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In 1999, nine global electronics giants, including Sony and Toshiba, pressured Chinese DVD makers into paying US$9 in retroactive royalties for every player they had previously exported.
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Gas companies soaring
Stocks in Hong Kong-listed utilities companies are soaring on the back of the rapid expansion of China抯 gas network. The country plans to spend more than US$7 billion on gas pipelines and city networks in the next five years and hopes to quadruple its use of natural gas to 8% of household fuel by 2010. […]
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Baotou Aluminum listing Inner
Mongolia-based Baotou Aluminum is aiming to raise RMB 600 million via a Shanghai A-share listing in the first quarter of 2004 to fund its plan to bolster capacity by about 50%. Through a state asset transfer earlier in 2003, Baotou Aluminum became a subsidiary of the country’s largest aluminum producer, China Aluminum Group, the parent […]
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Exports of mass destruction
Exports of sensitive goods and technology were put under stricter administration after the circulation of the Tentative Administrative Provisions on Export License of Sensitive Goods and Technology. Sensitive goods and technology were defined as those that can be used for the production of weapons of mass destruction and the related carrying systems. These include nuclear […]