Anticorruption agency gains power in China
SHANGHAI—The Communist Party is embarking on an unconventional strategy to build public confidence in rule of law: strengthening the powers of a secretive investigative body it controls.Legal reform is...
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Canberra suspicion over China's new fund
Business SpectatorPoliticsMichelle GrattanThe ConversationSenior cabinet ministers are believed to be divided over whether Australia should sign up to an internationally-funded infrastructure...
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HK protesters deny 'external forces' claim
Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders have angrily denied claims by the city's chief executive that more than three weeks of mass rallies in the Asian financial hub are being orchestrated by "external...
View ArticleChina faces future of 4% growth
In about five years' time the Chinese economy will likely have transitioned to a sharply cooler economy, with GDP expansion expected to come in close to 4 per cent from 2020, according to research from...
View ArticleHockey seeks coal tariff reversal
The federal government is hoping to convince Beijing to reverse course on a plan to introduce tariffs on coal imports, The Australian Financial Review reports.Treasurer Joe Hockey will raise the issue...
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The Ticker: Modern business life
Business SpectatorIndustriesHarrison PolitesOn today's blog:Alert and alarmed: Half a million metadata requests is the norm, not the exception Twitter tributes flow for Gough Whitlam Interesting reads...
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REVIEW: Huawei Ascend P7
Business SpectatorTechnologyKrishan SharmaHuawei has grown to become a firm number three maker of smartphones with a 6.9 per cent market share, according to IDC. While the company does big business in...
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Chinese exceptionalism can't last
EconomyChinaPeter CaiThe International Monetary Fund recently predicted that China would soon overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy, ending nearly 150 years of American dominance....
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The Ticker: Modern business life
Business SpectatorIndustriesHarrison PolitesOn today's blog:CPI beats expectations in September quarter Three reasons why Woolworths won’t sell BIG W A clarification from the Attorney General on...
View ArticleWhitlam took political courage to China
EconomyChinaPeter CaiWhen Gough Whitlam went to Communist China in 1971 as leader of the opposition, the Cold War was in full swing. Australian diggers were fighting alongside American GIs in the...
View ArticleRudd to lead new US think tank on Asia
Kevin Rudd will lead a new United States think tank focused on the rise of Asia.Mr Rudd has been appointed the inaugural president of the New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute.The former prime...
View ArticleAbbott hopes to seal China FTA
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is hopeful of securing a free trade agreement with China by the time of the G20 summit in November.But Mr Abbott sounded a warning to government MPs not to jeopardise the...
View ArticleHK Government, protesters hold first talks on future of democracy
HONG KONG—After more than three weeks of sometimes violent political protests, student leaders met for the first time with government officials, drawing thousands to the street to watch the televised...
View ArticleHK leader warns poor would sway vote
HONG KONG—Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said that if the government met student demands and allowed candidates to be nominated by the public, Hong Kong’s poor and working class could dominate the...
View ArticleChinese firms on buying spree of HK brokerages
Chinese companies eager to establish a foothold in Hong Kong before a widely anticipated stock-trading link between the city and China opens this year are gobbling up small brokerages as never...
View ArticleAlibaba and Bigcommerce talk shop in new partnership
Sydney-based eCommerce platform Bigcommerce has signed a partnership with Alibaba.com to make it easier for merchants to stock their virtual shelves.The companies announced today that Chinese commerce...
View ArticleAussie beef boost for China's soccer team
Could Australian cows help end China's national embarrassment on the soccer field?The country's men's team is currently rated 97th in the world - a result Snowdragon Beef Company spokesman Chen Hong...
View ArticleChengdu mayor to head up Chinalco
Aluminium Corp of China, the nation’s largest producer, has appointed the mayor of Chengdu as its new Chairman replacing Xiong Weiping.Ge Honglin 58, has been mayor of Chengdu in Sichuan province since...
View ArticleGrowth in 'expected range': Beijing
Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said the country's 7.3 per cent third-quarter growth was "within our expected range." "We are no longer a planned economy," he said at a news conference following a...
View ArticleInfrastructure bank pressure builds
The federal government has just two days left to make a judgment on joining the new Asian infrastructure bank pushed by China, The Australian Financial Review reports.The proposed $US50 billion...
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