Indonesian exporters and importers regarded China and ASEAN countries as their prime business partners within the next six months, a report released by Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) said on Wednesday. The report that was yielded from the results of a bank's Trade Confidence Index (CTI) survey said that Germany was also considered as a potential trading partner with positive trade growth prospect. The report also said that China, Singapore, Japan, the Uni...
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It seems to be a national obsession in India: measuring the country’s economic development against China’s yardstick. At a recent panel discussion to commemorate the 20th anniversary of India’s dismantling parts of its socialist economy, a government minister told business leaders to keep their eye on the big prize: growing faster than China. “That’s not impossible,” said the minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, who oversees national security and previously w...
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Coastal areas of Shandong, Zhejiang and Guangdong to spearhead sector development The oceans have often played an important role in shaping the history and charting the destiny of nations. But in modern times the oceans have taken on a different hue with a strong blue (marine) economy holding the promise of steady and sustained economic growth. China, despite its vast huge coastal resources, has never been able to gain significant economic advantage from them due to...
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China became South Africa's top export destination at the end of 2010 due to strengthened bilateral trade links, according to South African ambassador Bheki Langa. Investment between the two countries surged to nearly seven billion US dollars at the end of last year, the ambassador told Xinhua in a recent interview. China Customs statistics show that trade between China and South Africa totaled $25.6 billion throughout 2010. Imports from South Africa reached $14.8 billion dur...
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Iliana Torres 
Logistics, Quality Control, Quality Management, Safety and Compliance 
Comments Off on China, 3rd Highest Labor Costs in Asia An average worker in China costs more than the average worker in any other emerging Asian economy, save Malaysia and Thailand, when considered in terms of combined salary and welfare payments, China Briefing has found. Conducting a review of minimum labor costs, determined by the legal minimum amount stipulated in 15 different countries, and added together with the pertinent mandatory welfare payments due, it is apparent that since the introduction of the revised labor law in 2008, ...
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The use of Arctic shipping routes is doubling this year as global warming makes it more convenient to traverse the Arctic Ocean when servicing Russia, Europe and Eastern China. Escorted by Russian ice-breakers, the Arctic routes are being used from now until October. The first vessel to use the route this year is a Singaporean tanker, carrying gas condensate from the Russian Novatekc Purovsky gas processing plant to the city of Ningbo on China’s eastern seaboard. The arctic route ...
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