Online shopping has the potential to contribute about 20 percent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the CEO of Jumia Nigeria, Nicolas Martin. Martin, discussing on the topic ‘E-commerce as next driver of ...
Tags: Online Shopping, GDP, Accessories
A few days ago, I was in Washington, DC for a conference. On the sidelines of the conference, I met some American friends. We had an interesting discussion about China-US relations. It seems to me that a debate is going on in the United ...
Tags: China-US Relationship, Opinion
The Nikkei recently published a report on China's environmental pollution on August 4th, and I was shocked and dumbfounded by the sensational headline – China, A Perishing Nation Amid Environmental Pollution – written with an ...
Tags: China Air, China Climate
China and the U.S. are benefiting from and straining under 35 years of normalized relations. There have been tons of exports shipped from China to our shores during this time. However, none are more important than Chinese culture. The ...
Tags: Chinese Culture
Vietnam, the largest economy and the market in the ‘New Asean’ (comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar), has announced that its business sector is officially ready for wider engagement with Sri Lankan businesses and ...
China's state-run media are trying to do something the securities industry has failed to accomplish for much of the past three years: get the world's biggest population to buy more stocks. The official Xinhua News Agency published at ...
Tags: Stocks, China economy
Beginning Fall 2015, NASDAQ-listed pure-play children's specialty apparel US retailer, The Children's Place will have opened its first Indian store. Children's Place has stepped in to Asia’s third largest economy by entering into a ...
Tags: Children's Place, Partner, Apparel
According to the Wall Street journal, after 12 consecutive months of weak growth in the euro zone economy, it stagnated in the second quarter, highlights in the Eurozone has concerns about high unemployment and low inflation dilemma. ...
Tags: Eurozone Economy, Economy
TOKYO (Kyodo) –The government on Tuesday cut its forecast for Japan’s economic growth in fiscal 2014 to 1.2 percent from 1.4 percent in real terms amid lingering fears that the April 1 consumption tax hike, the first in 17 ...
Tags: Japan, Electrical, Electronics
The Japanese economy shrank an annualized real 6.8 percent in the April to June quarter, falling at its fastest pace since the March 2011 disaster, apparently due to the consumption tax hike on April 1, the government said Wednesday. The ...
Tags: economy, domestic product
Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that it has opened a representative office in Shanghai to establish and strengthen relationships with companies in the world's second-largest economy. The new ...
Tags: MMK, Representative Office, Metallurgy, Mineral
Activity in China's vast factory sector expanded at the fastest pace in 27 months in July on stronger demand, a government survey showed, adding to evidence that the economy is regaining momentum after a burst of government stimulus ...
A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports
South Africa-based paper and packaging firm Mondi has signed an agreement with Graphic Packaging subsidiary Graphic Packaging International to acquire its bags and kraft paper business, for around $105m. As part of the deal, Mondi will ...
Tags: Bags, Graphic Packaging
Chinese manufacturing grew for the third consecutive month in May, suggesting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing, a state-sanctioned industry group said Sunday. The China Federation of Logistics and ...
Tags: economic growth