Swiss food fragrance and flavours company Givaudan has initiated plans to set up a flavours manufacturing facility in Ranjangaon, Pune in India. Givaudan is investing CHF 55m ($55.8m) as a part of growth strategy to foray into Indian ...
Tags: food fragrance, emerging market
Beijing International Art Biennale opens on Thursday, drawing artists from China and abroad. The exhibition Memory and Dream will highlight the sixth Beijing International Art Biennale that begins on Thursday. Among the country's top ...
Tags: Beijing International Art Biennale, paintings, sculptures
This year marks the 60th birthday of the adorable female rabbit, Miffy. Created in 1955 by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, Miffy is not only a toy popular among adults, but a cartoon character that many kids have grown up with. "Dick Bruna ...
More than 30 poets from China and abroad, including Germany, France, Iran and the United States, gathered at Beijing's China Millennium Monument on Sunday to celebrate the annual Mid-autumn festival and recite their works about the moon at ...
Tags: Mid-autumn festival, Poetry, Culture
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently paid a state visit to the US, but cultural exchanges between the two countries are an important backdrop to the diplomatic ones. For example, Universal Studios has just contracted to build a theme park ...
A tribute to Monet by T'ang Haywen. [Photo provided to China Daily] French-Chinese artist T'ang Haywen (1927-91) was famous for exploring the full potential of Chinese ink art during his decadeslong residence in Paris since 1948. An ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council has recently passed the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), bringing the Agreement into the WTO Agreement, and opened the protocol for ...
Against the complex and changeable situation in Eurasia in 2014, China’s Ministry of Commerce braved challenges and firmly seized the opportunity to make breakthrough. China-Russia bilateral trade rose in spite of the unfavorable ...
Tags: Silk Road Economic Belt initiative, trade and economic cooperation
The first meeting of the China-Indonesia High-Level Economic Dialogue was held in Beijing on January 26. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economy Sofyan Djalil co-chaired the meeting, and the two ...
The 21st Conference of Trade Ministers of the APEC was held in Boracay Philippines,on May 23-24, 2015. The Vice-Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and the Chinese Ambassador in the WTO Yu Jianhua attended the conference. The participants ...
Tags: WTO, regional economic integration, multilateral trade system
Excessive alcohol consumption affected the US economy to the tune of $249bn or $2.05 per drink in 2010, compared to $223.5bn, or $1.90 per drink, in 2006, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. Reduced ...
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People’s Daily published the signed paper of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng’s To Cooperate for the Prosperity of Regional Development with the Help of the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement on June 2. The full text follows: ...
Tags: China-South Korea FTA, textile, garment, steels, liquid crystal display
Chinese Vice-Minister of Commerce Gao Yan and the Minister of Finance of Afghanistan Eklil Ahmad Hakimi jointly presided over the 2nd Meeting of China-Afghanistan Joint Committee of Economics and Trade in Beijing on June 26. Both sides ...
Tags: engineering, trade, investment, human resource development
The 3-day China Machinery and Electronic Products Exhibition Brand Show (Chile) was inaugurated in the capital of Chile San Diego on July 27. Chinese Ambassador in Chile Li Baorong, the Minister of Economic Affairs of Chile Philips ...
Tags: Electronic Products, lighting fixture, fitness equipment
The 14th China-ASEAN (10+1) Trade and Economic Ministers’ Meeting was held in the capital of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur on the morning of August 23. Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng led the delegation to attend the meeting, ...
Tags: China-ASEAN FTA, bilateral trade and economic cooperation