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Shanghai overtakes Singapore as world's busiest port

2011-01-08T02:32:47Z

Shanghai said it overtook Singapore for the first time in 2010 to become the world's busiest container port, as the global economic recovery boosted cargo traffic through China's business centre.

Shanghai's port handled 29.05 million 20-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in 2010 -- 500,000 TEUs more than Singapore, the Shanghai government said in ...

Perspective: Financial Crisis 09 New Growth Points, Building Materials Market

2010-09-08T18:48:18Z

By the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis triggered the economic crisis has spread around the world, while China, the rising China, relatively speaking, has become a haven for the global economy. When the U.S. Congress House of Representatives, the Senate is still heated debate or not to save money or time of economic crisis, the Chinese government has been spending huge sums to promote the new round of economic growth. According to industry told reporters the Chinese domestic industry feel the press...

Torrent Brave the wind and waves Masao mechanical science and technology innovation dominate the market

2010-09-21T13:34:35Z

----------- Visit to Shanghai, Masao Machinery Co., Ltd. General Manager Mr. Liu Xiaobo HC 360 HC

Network plastic channel more global financial turmoil blowing more fiercely, the world economic recession aggravated by the increasingly serious impact on the real economy, building factories in China this world seems to have begun to waver, the PRD has been denied news of the closing of many export enterprises enterprises. However, in billowing storm, the machinery industry has...

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

2010-10-22T13:04:41Z

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China's Wen reiterates loose policy stance

2010-04-16T09:13:36Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will stick to its active fiscal policy and loose monetary measures even though its economic recovery is now on more solid footing, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday.

Wen's comments are the latest reiteration of Beijing's accommodative policy stance, an...

How to navigate the liquidity crunch

2010-10-22T12:11:41Z

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Eco-Cities: Building a Comeback?

2010-06-15T09:29:33Z

The global recession put a damper on what are known as eco-cities, or big real estate developments that dramatically cut carbon emissions. The most notable delay has affected a major project planned for Dongtan, outside Shanghai. But with the recession easing and oil prices rising, plans to build such ultragreen model cities seem to be reviving.

China is preparing for the biggest and most extravagant World Expo in history, with billions of dollars allocated and an army of thousands of workers deployed for next year's event in Shanghai.

Authorities have set aside an area twice the size of Monaco for the Expo, which is expected to attract 70 million visitors -- 95 percent of them Chinese -- to...

PRESS DIGEST - China - April 10

2010-10-21T09:56:35Z

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Asian developers delay projects in downturn

2010-06-16T11:00:30Z

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The simple sign announces "South Beach" and calls it "Singapore's New Lifestyle Quarter" but there is little sign of life at the collection of dilapidated military buildings.

The abandoned camp was to become a 1.1-billion-US-dollar luxury hotel, office, retail and residential project known as South Beach.

Instead, it has become a symbol of th...

Asia's stocks bring down curtain on painful year

2010-06-12T07:29:10Z

Asia's markets closed Wednesday to bring down the curtain on a miserable year that saw them lose half their worth in the wake of the global financial meltdown.

Despite a number of bourses gaining some ground over the past few days, the overall picture for 2008 has been one of gloom as the worst economic crisis since the 1930s tore into investor confidence and battered stocks.

By the close of trading on Wednesday

Options Trader: Monday Outlook

2010-10-21T09:12:08Z

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China's new reality: Economic boom is slowing

2010-04-16T14:31:05Z

End of the go-go days: Realities of recession set in as China's boom loses steam

Job cuts, factory closures, unpaid export shipments — stalling worldwide demand for products made-in-China is driving home a new economic reality for businesses that until recently were struggling to keep up with soaring exports.

China's economy is still growing at an enviable rate: It expanded 9 percent in the quarter through September....

Harbin Electric Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

2010-10-21T09:11:21Z

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For China, the financial crisis is an opportunity

2010-10-21T10:45:55Z

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Asian markets mostly down on concerns over US bailout plan

2010-10-22T13:28:19Z

Asian stocks were mainly lower Thursday on concerns over a US bailout for the finance sector, after President George W. Bush warned the US economy could slip into recession if the plan was rejected.

Bush, in a prime-time television address, warned "our entire economy is in danger" as he sought backing for a 700-billion-Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, file)

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Global Building Boom

2010-12-19T21:31:28Z

FILE - In this March 3, 2009 file photo, a container truck drives past stacks of shipping containers at Waigaoqiao Container Port in Shanghai, China. The world's most expensive infrastructure project, a $150 billion plan to bring water from the mighty Yangtze river to the parched north, calls for sending 45 trillion liters (12 trillion gallons) of wa...

China Markets

2010-12-13T19:00:22Z

An investor walks past the stock price monitor at a private securities company Monday Dec. 13, 2010 in Shanghai, China. World markets rose Monday after Chinese authorities refrained from raising interest rates over the weekend and said they favored a strong growth policy despite high inflation. The Shanghai Composite Index gaine...

China High Speed Rail

2010-12-03T11:30:35Z

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a China Railway High-Speed (CRH) train enters Bengbu south railway station, a stop in Anhui province on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed ra...

Hong Kong Long Lunch Ends

2010-11-25T02:32:41Z

A floor trader prints the trading records in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. The stockbrokers' long lunch is coming to an end. The Hong Kong stock exchange, which has one of the shortest trading days in the world, plans to cut its two-hour lunch break by an hour over the next two years. It also plans to start trading half an hour earlier in a bid...