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China's Fixed Asset Investment Increases 13.5%

Apr 15, 2015

China's fixed asset investment rose 13.5 percent from a year earlier to 7.75 trillion yuan (1.26 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. The pace of increase slowed further ...

Tags: China's fixed asset investment, primary industry

China Q1 Retail Sales Increases 10.6%

Apr 15, 2015

China's consumer spending posted a double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2015, despite mounting pressures the country is facing. China's retail sales rose 10.6 percent year on year in the first three months to 7.07 trillion yuan ...

Tags: China's consumer spending, mounting pressures

Chinese Investors Are Allowed to Subscribe for New Shares From 30 Companies

Apr 13, 2015

Chinese investors are allowed to subscribe for new shares from 30 companies this week, according to the country's initial public offering (IPO) schedule. Among those companies, 11 will be listed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, 2 in the ...

Tags: Chinese investors, Subscriptions, Service

Self-Driving Vehicles Will Be on Roads

Apr 13, 2015

Don't panic if you see a driver in a moving car with no hands on the wheel because chances are the vehicle is self-driving. Such scenes, previously only found in fiction, are likely to be reality very soon. In late March, Volvo ...

Tags: BMW, Volvo, Transportation

China Makes Effort to Get More New Energy Cars on The Road

Apr 13, 2015

Local governments are taking action to respond to the central government's appeal to popularize new energy vehicles across the nation. Earlier this month, Beijing authorities announced that pure electric vehicles would not be affected by ...

Tags: energy vehicles, electric cars, Transportation

China's Foreign Trade Declines Continuously

Apr 13, 2015

China's foreign trade remained anaemic in the first quarter of 2015, with exports registering a big slump in March following signs of improvement, official data showed on Monday. Last month, the foreign trade volume dropped by 13.5 ...

Tags: Foreign Trade, GAC, Transportation

Stock Reform Leads to Investors up to 20 Accounts

Apr 13, 2015

Investors will no longer be restricted to only one stock account in China's A-share market and each can have up to 20 accounts from Monday, the managing institution for stock accounts said on Sunday. The China Securities Depositary and ...

Tags: Science, Technology, Service

"E-Commerce India's New Emerging Industry"

Apr 13, 2015

A recent study by ASSOCHAM-Deloitte has found that e-commerce encompassing an increasing range of economic activities such as retail, travel, tourism, food and beverages, has emerged as India’s new sunrise industry and is set to notch ...

Tags: E-Commerce, Sun-Rise Industry, home markets

Retail Biz Is Booming in China

Apr 13, 2015

China is quickly finding itself in uncharted retail territory, with a large availability of new shopping malls coinciding with the fast adoption of e-commerce by its rapidly-expanding consumer class, says JLL, a professional services and ...

Tags: uncharted retail territory, shopping malls

Investors Can Open up to 20 Trading Accounts on The a-Share Market Starting

Apr 13, 2015

Chinese securities regulators are allowing investors to open up to 20 trading accounts on the A-share market starting today. This will allow investors to transfer their accounts to other brokerage firms. Investors have only been allowed ...

Tags: Shanghai stocks, Light Industry, Manufacturing

Oeko-Tex Revised Requirements for STeP by Oeko-Tex

Apr 7, 2015

As of 1 April 2015, Oeko-Tex has revised requirements applicable for the certification of environmentally friendly and socially responsible production facilities in accordance with STeP by Oeko-Tex. “In the future, production sites ...

Tags: PFOA, Oeko-Tex Association, Textile

Apparel Retailer Aldi Pledged to Ban All Hazardous Chemicals

Apr 7, 2015

In response to the Greenpeace Detox Campaign, Aldi one of the top ten discounters worldwide, has pledged to ban all hazardous chemicals from their textile and footwear supply chain by 2020. “Aldi scored poorly when Greenpeace tested ...

Tags: Greenpeace Detox Campaign, shopping guide, Apparel

Exporters Group Wants to Cooperate with Canadian

Apr 7, 2015

The Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with that country to arrest falling knitwear exports. Modi’s visit to Canada begins ...

Tags: General Preferential Tariff, Tirupur Exporters'Association, Apparel

E-Commerce Is Booming in China

Apr 2, 2015

The State Council, China's cabinet, has promised policies to boost e-commerce, including through cutting red tape and liberalizing investment rules covering a sector it recognizes as very important to the economy. E-commerce is ...

Tags: China's cabinet, e-commerce

Local Govt Bonds Are Booming

Apr 2, 2015

State Council decides to allow up to 300 billion yuan to be invested from social security fund China is to allow up to 300 billion yuan (nearly $48 billion) from the nation's social security fund to be invested in local government bonds ...

Tags: Local Govt Bonds, social security fund