Sensex rises 44 points in opening trade on firm Asian markets The Times Of India MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex recovered by nearly 44 points in opening trade on Wednesday on fresh capital inflows from foreign funds amid firming Asian markets. | The 30-share index was up by 43.39 points, or 0.25 per cent at 17,095.93 in opening trade. The Sensex closed 50.06 ...
Canon says China may become top camera market in 2015 China Daily | Canon Inc expects China's camera market to become the world's largest as early as 2015, overtaking the US, its head of the business said. | Canon, the world's biggest camera maker, is doubling the number of outlets and boosting its marketing workforce in the Asian nation to tap the company's major...
China Feb exports, imports beat forecasts The Times Of India BEIJING: Year-over-year growth in Chinese exports and imports blew past expectations in February, apparently underlining the momentum powering the world's third-largest economy. | But some economists were wary of reading policy implications into the ...
Sensex rises 44 points in opening trade on firm Asian markets The Times Of India MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex recovered by nearly 44 points in opening trade on Wednesday on fresh capital inflows from foreign funds amid firming Asian markets. | The 30-share index was up by 43.39 points, or 0.25 per cent at 17...
Asian stocks near 6-wk highs, cool to China data The Times Of India HONG KONG: Asian stocks hovered near six-week highs on Wednesday as Chinese data showed exports and imports in February were better than expected, while the euro and the pound suffered on renewed concerns about Europe's fiscal problems. | Foreign buy...
Sensex rises 44 points in opening trade on firm Asian markets DNA India | The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex recovered by nearly 44 points in the opening trade today on fresh capital inflows from foreign funds amid firming Asian markets. | The 30-share index was up by 43.39 points, or 0.25% at 17,095.93 in the op...
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South Korea back on track Asia Times | By Robert M Cutler | MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery path last m...
Soaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers The Press Democrat | Yang and many other young Chinese are finding their aspirations thwarted by an overheated property market that is enriching already wealthy speculators, local officials and other...
Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive The Boston Globe | ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday called censorship counterproductive and urged Arab leaders to allow their citizens the freedom to unleash their creativi...
Ministry offers welfare plan for seniors China Daily | The Ministry of Civil Affairs will release this year a national standard of payments for people over 80 years old, department director of social welfare and promotion of charities under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Wang Zhenyao, said on Tuesday, ...
Gezhouba profits abroad China Daily | Beijing - China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd (CGGC), one of the largest engineering and construction companies involved in the Three Gorges Dam project, said overseas contracts are likely to take up half of its business in the future, according to its pre...
Xiangguang Copper may buy 15% stake in CuDeco China Daily | Deal to help Chinese company get raw material from Rocklands mine | Xiangguang Copper, a copper smelting unit of chicken supplier Shandong Fengxiang Group is planning to acquire a stake in Australian gold and copper miner CuDeco, to bolster its raw...
China and India Join Climate Accord The New York Times | WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. | The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be incl...
China and India endorse Copenhagen climate deal The Star | NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters on Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favoured by the United States. A chimney billows smoke as the sun shines through haze on a cold winter's day in Beijing in this December 24, 2009 file photo. (REU...