Originally published in the Xinhua on Mar 12, 2010 by Liu Jie
China's central bank said Friday a stronger yuan offers no help for solving the Sino-U.S. trade imbalance problem, and China opposes politicizing yuan's appreciation. Su Ning, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, made the comments a day after U.S. President Barack Obama told the U.S. Export-Import Bank's annual conference that a more market-oriented exchange rate of yuan...
Originally published in the the China Daily on Jan 22, 2010 by Hu Yinan and Li Jing
As China celebrates GDP success, Hu Yinan, Li Jing and Wang Shanshan look at the dilemmas and struggles facing one of the world's largest economies. Li Boren digs coal for a living. He has three brothers; two work alongside him...
Originally published in the Family Security Matters on Jan 19, 2010 by William R. Hawkins
The China-ASEAN Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Cooperation went into effect with the New Year. It was drawn up in 2002 but delayed so countries and business firms could prepare and adjust to the new arrangements. The agreement has been widely reported as one of “free trade” between China and the six original ASEAN members, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines...
Originally published in the Business Daily Africa on Jan 04, 2010 by Allan Odhiambo
China admits some wayward manufacturers have dealt a blow to its image abroad but vows to press for stringent quality control measures even as it looks up to bolstering its trade ties with Kenya and other developing nations. “I don’t think Chinese...
Originally published in the the New York Times on Dec 24, 2009 by Pradnya Joshi
More than many countries, Vietnam has been buffeted by the ups and downs of globalization. A relatively new player in the global economy, it benefited from a flood of Western capital and interest in the 1990s and early this decade, only to...
Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Nov 11, 2009 by Jeff Yang
For the geekerati, it was a Pentagon Papers moment. Last week, the anonymous "total transparency" site Wikileaks unveiled a new cache of classified documents -- memos revealing the top-secret terms of a proposed international treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, being negotiated by the world's biggest content-creating regions. "The leaks confirm everything that we feared about the secret ACTA negotiations," wrote Gwen Hinze of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a grim...
Originally published in the Malaysia Star on Oct 12, 2009 by Choong Khuat Hock
SIXTY years ago when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) swept into power in China, the Western world was more concerned about containing China, especially when communism was sweeping through South-East Asia. An isolated China then had little economic impact on a world embroiled in a cold war. As China celebrates its 60th anniversary under the CCP rule with dazzling displays...
Originally published in the Business Standard on May 27, 2009 by Mumbai
India’s policies for the software sector and China’s promotion of special economic zones (SEZs) for the manufacturing sector suggest that well-designed and sector-specific government policies can overcome weaknesses in investment climate and allow developing countries to compete globally in new fields, according to a study by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank...
Originally published in the Business Review on Apr 17, 2009 by Staff
Chinese manufacturers to implement tighter controls on the manufacturing process.
New regulations issued by the Ministry of Health designed at unifying standards of food and consumer goods manufacturing, are expected to create considerable opportunities for suppliers of packaging technology...
