Mindful of the ecological toll that gasoline and diesel engines exact on the environment, the Chinese government is pressing forward with plans to build 1 million electric vehicles a year by 2020. China’s government plans to sp…
Reported theft of information and electronic data is now a bigger crime problem than physical property losses, according to a poll by security consultancy Kroll.
More than 27% of 801 companies surveyed reported some kind of data loss, while the porti…
The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly jumped to $46.3 billion in August, as the nation’s deficit with China surged to a record $28 billion. Oil prices were the other key culprit as the petroleum deficit surged 5.7%.
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Mining company Rio Tinto (RIO) produced record quantities of iron ore in the third quarter on rampant demand from China.
The company produced a whopped a 47.6 million tons of iron ore in the three months to September, BBC News said.
China is importing huge amounts of iron ore to make steel for its fast-growing economy. China, now the world’s second-largest quarter, grew at an annual…
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the U.S. favors a “gradual, but still significant” appreciation of the yuan.
Geithner said the U.S. would prefer China let market forces drive up the value of the currency, The Wall Street Journal said. Geithner noted that the yuan had strengthened by about 2.5% in six weeks.
“What we want to do is to maximize the incentives they have to let…
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