China Seen as Biggest Driver of Ivory Market
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Booming demand in China is the biggest driver of the illegal ivory market and there is no clear link between allowing regulated legal trade and a rise in black market supplies, a report to a U.N. conference said on Monday.
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THE HAGUE -- African nations agreed yesterday to a massive ivory sell-off and a nine-year freeze on further sales, in a move conservationists hoped would mean a reprieve for elephant herds from poachers and smuggling syndicates.
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Why China's about to give India a run for its money.
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SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 23: China took centrestage in 2004 as an economic star to reckon with for many years to come. Ravenous for imports, China gulped huge amounts of raw materials, steel, farm produce and more.
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Driven by one of the largest and most sustained economic expansions in history, China is increasingly turning to South America as a supplier.
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Chinaâs landmark trade agreement with Southeast Asian leaders is the latest example of how the communist giant is claiming a growing role in a region long dominated by the United States.
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[World News]: Beijing, Dec 26 : Chinas foreign trade has zoomed 750 times since the Communist nation was founded 55 years ago, serving as a major engine for the growth of Chinese economy as well as world trade, Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said.
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China's top site has another big quarter.
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CHINA Life, China&#39;s largest life insurer, might start investing in overseas financial markets before the end of the year, state media reported yesterday.
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PARIS, Jul 23 (IPS) - While China's growing trade and investment  flows to Africa have sparked a sometimes contentious debate with  the United States and Europe over who has the continent's  best interests at heart, a closer look at the dynamic developing  reveals a political landscape where the rhetoric is rarely in  line with the reality, observers say.
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BERLIN, Dec. 13 -- The world's perception of China as a major global power is growing, with many people believing it will rival the United States in influence by 2020, according to a major survey released this week.
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China and other emerging market countries offer new markets for the luxury goods industry though they are likely in time to themselves become competitors, according to industry experts.
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China is likely to become the world&#39;s third largest trading power by the end of 2004, said the Ministry of Commerce. According to a report jointly published on Friday by the ministry
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Hong Kong property firm Chinese  Estates Holdings Ltd. (0127.HK) is in talks with investors on a  possible buyout of the firm, valued at more than US$4 billion,  sending its shares up as much as 30 percent to a record high.
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China has leapfrogged Ghana&#039;s traditional trading partners India and Britain to become the West African nation&#039;s biggest foreign investor, according to the latest official records.
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China's aggressive courtship of Africa can benefit that poor continent, but shady Chinese businessmen and no-questions-asked aid policies could backfire, on Beijing, U.S. and African experts said on Thursday.
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China and France have a great deal of room to expand the scale of bilateral trade and investment, said officials and experts ahead of French President Jacques Chirac's visit to China.