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Rising demand for Chinese mobile phones by South Koreans may shatter long-standing domestic loyalties for home-grown brands such as Samsung and LG.
Spurred by fiscal stimulus and a softening of its deleveraging campaign, China has seen a rebound in growth – but it is too early to conclude that the economy is back on a sustainable recovering trajectory.
Hawkish US sanctions on Iran have had an unanticipated side effect – they’re helping to promote the formation of a new informal Asian monetary bloc centred on the yuan, at the expense of the US dollar.
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News that African Swine Fever has swept into China has massive ramifications not just for millions of pig farmers and the world’s largest consumer market for pork, but for industries across the world, whether it is German sausage makers, or Iowan soybean exporters.
On the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum, Malaysian companies promoted home-grown durian chocolates, mooncakes and more ahead of expected new rules allowing them to sell whole, frozen durians to China.
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Beijing’s partners in Europe and Southeast Asia command much attention at the Belt and Road Forum, but there is much China-backed development in Central Asia – and much concern over whether Kyrgyzstan will pay back the billions it has borrowed.
Mahathir’s May 9 speech has been billed as a ‘state-of-the-union type of speech’, but a falling approval ratings and doubts over his government’s economic management mean there is still much left on his to-do list.
The American retail behemoth has repeatedly said that it is in for the long-haul in India. But stiff competition and an increasingly hostile regulatory environment could stop it in its tracks.
Speaking before the Belt and Road Forum, Ramon Lopez’s comments come after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to deploy soldiers after Beijing allowed vessels to sail near a Philippine-claimed island in the South China Sea.
The Export-Import Bank of China has offered Thailand a low-interest loan for the construction of a belt and road project linking the country with Kunming and Laos. But analysts are also debating whether the project will turn a profit.
The country’s influence is only expected to expand, despite earlier predictions that it would be overtaken by India, according to two new surveys.
Speaking ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Thursday, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Shahriar said any amount of debt can be “dangerous” for countries not achieving high economic growth.
Frenzied media reports suggest we are on the verge of a world-changing revolution with self-driving cars and superfast mobile speeds. History, mathematics and economics suggest something far less impressive.
These are some of the most recognisable players among the Chinese developers who have entered the Singapore market over the past decade
Kingsford Development once made headlines for the opulence of its chairman’s US$24 million Singapore home. Now its shoddy work at an estate it bought for US$600 million has it back in the news for all the wrong reasons.
There’s no guarantee that China’s economy will surpass America’s – and even if there was, it wouldn’t mean much
Huawei’s 5G technology is under fire in the West, but there is a region of the world where Washington’s anti-China propaganda war was lost long ago: Southeast Asia.
5G technology is coming to Southeast Asia, and the odds are Huawei’s technology will be driving it. That’s despite the US trying to poison the well against its Chinese competitor. So why is no-one listening to Uncle Sam?
Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu state is the proposed site of a new US$4.8 billion port, being touted as part of New Delhi’s answer to Beijing’s Sri Lankan investments.