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Chinese-market Fords do away with new-car smell
Business, Reuters, Published on 21/07/2017
» NANJING, China: While Western drivers like the new-car smell fresh off the production line, Chinese would rather their cars didn't smell of anything -- a cultural divide that's testing carmakers seeking an edge to revive sales in the world's biggest auto market.
Diamond the size of a tennis ball 'too big' to sell
Business, Reuters, Published on 19/07/2017
» TORONTO: In the mysterious world of diamond mining, it turns out that some stones are too big to sell.
Fashion M&A, like a crop top, hard to pull off
Business, Reuters, Published on 12/07/2017
» NEW YORK: Mergers and acquisitions for fashion retailers are like a crop top T-shirt: a risk best braved by a select few and avoided after a certain age.
Darjeeling tea harvest hit by unrest
Business, Reuters, Published on 07/07/2017
» MUMBAI/KOLKATA: Ethnic unrest in India's Darjeeling hills has wiped out the harvest of the world's most expensive tea, disrupting supplies to European buyers and potentially pushing prices higher.
Vietnam plans to boost rice quality, prices but export less
Reuters, Published on 07/07/2017
» HANOI - Vietnam has outlined plans to boost revenues from rice exports over the next decade by focussing on a higher quality product and selling more outside Asia.
Vietnam to promote high-quality rice
Reuters, Published on 06/07/2017
» HANOI - Vietnam has outlined plans to boost revenues from rice exports over the next decade by focusing on a higher quality product and selling more outside Asia.
Alibaba launches sales channels in Malaysia, Singapore
Reuters, Published on 12/06/2017
» BEIJING - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Monday said it is launching new sales channels in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan as China's deep-pocketed e-commerce firms vie for new users in the region.
Rare public protest in Shanghai over property rule change
Reuters, Published on 11/06/2017
» SHANGHAI -- Hundreds of demonstrators have marched through a shopping district in the Chinese city of Shanghai to protest against changes to housing regulations, in a rare show of public dissent in the financial hub.
Canada beats the US in pork sales to China
Business, Reuters, Published on 06/06/2017
» WINNIPEG/CHICAGO/BEIJING: Canada has overtaken the United States as the top North American supplier of pork to China as farmers and meat packers in both nations battle for lucrative shares of the biggest global market.
New Russian jet takes to air in bid to rival Airbus, Boeing
Business, Reuters, Published on 30/05/2017
» MOSCOW: Russia carried out the maiden flight of its new MS-21 medium-range passenger plane on Sunday, its first post-Soviet foray into production of a mainline commercial aircraft which it hopes will rival those of its Western competitors.