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Tech, Media & Telecom

Rainbow station

deal that will allow Publicitas to run everything from programming to advertising for Ningxia Satellite Television gives the Swiss media giant access to two of China’s wealthiest markets – Beijing and Shanghai. As competition heats up for advertising revenue in China’s television industry, foreign companies are scrambling to get a piece of the action. One […]

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Politics & Society

SCO holds second summit

The second summit meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) was held in St Petersburg in June. During the meeting, the presidents of the six member nations – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – adopted a charter that formally constituted the SCO as an international organisation with a secretariat and agreed to set […]

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Consumer

Deal to supply flowers to Japan

The Hong Kong affiliate of Japan’s Itochu Corporation has signed a deal with Euro- Asia Agricultural (Holdings) for the supply of cut flowers for the Japanese market, JCN Newswire reported. The flowers will come from Liaoning, Jilin and Hebei provinces where Euro-Asia has a total of 60 hectares of glasshouses growing flowers and vegetables, with […]

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Tech, Media & Telecom

Incubation centre for Singapore

China will set up an incubation centre in Singapore to help Chinese high-tech enterprises to internationalise and commercialise their technologies, South China Morning Post said. The Torch High Tech Industry Development Centre, the promotion arm of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Singaporean Economic Development Board to […]

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Commodities

Chinese steel-makers win US case

Two Chinese steel makers have won landmark anti-dumping cases in the US, the Financial Times said. The US Department of Commerce found, after a year-long investigation, that Maanshan Steel and Weifang Steel Pipe Co had not dumped steel on the US market. This is believed to be the first time that Chinese companies have gone […]