Topic: Beijing

Gloomy Outlook

The article offers how the financial crisis has affected white-collar workers in China. //www.bjreview.com NATION By LI LI Xie Hanshuang, a senior account executive at a public relations com-pany in Beijing, had planned to fly with her husband to Chongqing, a municipality ...

Steel Price Going Down

The article reveals the plan of Baosteel Group Corp. Ltd., the largest steel mill in China, to cut prices on some products in November 2008. Baosteel Chairman cites increasing costs and lack of demand as some of the risks facing the Chinese ...

Sinosteel Goes Australian

This article reports on the approvel received by Sinosteel Corp., China's second-biggest iron ore trading company, from the Australian government to buy a 49.9% stake in Murchison Metals Ltd. The original plan of Sinosteel was to acquire up to 100% of the ...

Confidence Counts

The article discusses highlights of the second annual Summer Davos held in China in September 2008. //www.bjreview.com BUSINESS By DING WENLEI The second annual Summer Davos i; Chin; too; plac; a; th; en; o;September amid global panic over th; credi; crunc; o; ...
China's May inflation rises amid signs rapid rebound from global downturn is slowingChina's inflation rose in May amid signs its rapid rebound from the global slump is slowing, adding to pressure on Beijing to control politically sensitive food prices and keep growth ...

Geithner says China yuan rise a global issue

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Persuading Beijing to let its yuan currency rise in value is not simply an issue for the United States but one that should interest the whole world, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday."When they began this process before, ...
Greece's debt troubles send worries through global economy about contagion threatsThe Greek debt crisis sent a shudder through global financial markets and served as a dramatic reminder of how vulnerable the world economy remains to the threat of a fast-spreading financial panic.To ...
This story in MarketWatch tells of one of the hottest new property markets in the world, just off the southern coast of - you guessed it - China, where rising prices make the 10 percent gain on the mainland during the month ...
Europe's main stock markets fell on Tuesday as official data showed that Britain only just escaped recession in the fourth quarter of 2009, and amid fresh worries about China's economy, analysts said.London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading shares slid 0.55 percent ...

China speeds up resettlement in water mega-scheme

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will use stimulus spending to speed up shifting 330,000 people slated to be displaced for a vast water transfer project, accelerating work on the troubled scheme, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.The displaced residents, mostly poor farmers in ...