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For China Bank Stocks, The Bull Run May Be Over

From: Wall Street Journal, By JAMES T. AREDDY   Date: April 23, 2007

SHANGHAI -- Odds are increasing that the high prices of Chinese bank stocks won't be sustained. One possible trigger: faster-rising interest rates. View details »

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Foreign Banks In China Begins To Handle Yuan Deposit, Loan

From: Wall Street Journal, By JAMES T. AREDDY   Date: April 23, 2007

SHANGHAI -- More than 20 years after the world's leading banks opened outlets in China, a handful are set to grasp a long-sought prize: deposits in yuan from ordinary citizens. View details »

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China Struggles To Rein In Strong Economic Growth

From: Wall Street Journal, By ANDREW BATSON   Date: April 20, 2007

BEIJING -- A sharp pickup in the pace of China's economic growth underscores the challenges Beijing faces in trying to overhaul the country's vast, far-flung economy and has reignited debate about the best way to guide it. View details »

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China Union Expands at McDonald’s

From: Wall Street Journal, By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH   Date: April 7, 2007

SHANGHAI -- McDonald's Corp. said it will cooperate with China's government-affiliated trade union to set up branches at its restaurants in the southern city of Guangzhou by the end of July, as labor leaders seek to boost their influence at foreign companies. View details »

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U.S. Piracy Case May Raise Trade Tensions With China

From: Wall Street Journal, By NEIL KING JR.   Date: April 7, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing to take its longstanding spat with China over pirated movies, music and books to the World Trade Organization, a move that could notch up trade tensions between the two countries. View details »

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Investors Split on Chinese Stocks

From: Wall Street Journal, By By ANDREW BATSON   Date: April 4, 2007

BEIJING -- Many of the world's big investors may have had enough of Chinese stocks after a record-breaking run, yet the enthusiasm of the country's own investors for local stocks is only increasing. View details »

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The China Tariffs

From: Wall Street Journal   Date: April 2, 2007

Can practicing protectionism promote free trade? That seems to be the strange logic of the Bush Administration, which on Friday met Congressional pressure to get tough on China with new tariffs on coated paper imports. We'd have thought the White House had learned the futility of this exercise from its 2002 steel tariff fiasco. View details »

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China To Lower Ceiling On Foreign Borrowing

From: Wall Street Journal, By JANE LANHEE LEE and WANG MING   Date: March , 2007

SHANGHAI, China -- China moved to reduce financial firms' offshore foreign-currency borrowings in the latest attempt to address the country's lopsided balance of payments and further develop domestic financial markets. View details »

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China Builds Commerce Codes

From: Wall Street Journal, By ANDREW BATSON   Date: March 2, 2007

BEIJING -- China's leadership is stepping up its efforts to build a legal system that can handle the demands of a complex, market-driven economy, as managing the fast-growing nation becomes increasingly challenging. View details »

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China’s Reckoning Day On Stock Sales Appears Near

From: Wall Street Journal, By JAMES T. AREDDY   Date: March 2, 2007

SHANGHAI -- More sellers than buyers in the stock market here earlier this week ignited a fire sale that caused shares to fall world-wide, a sign that China has joined the global market economy. Yet China's transition from communism to capitalism remains a work in progress, which could mean even more sellers in the months to come. View details »

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Best Buy Will Expand In North America, China

From: Wall Street Journal   Date: February 22, 2007

Best Buy Co. said it plans to open about 130 stores in the U.S., Canada and China in its next fiscal year. View details »

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Chinese Takeout

From: Wall Street Journal, By LAWRENCE BRAINARD and JONATHAN FENBY   Date: February 22, 2007

Foreign investment has been a motor of China's growth, flowing into more than half a million mainland enterprises and accounting for $660 billion in asset value. Now the balance of investment is set to shift in the other direction. China will deploy its accumulated assets abroad to secure resources needed for future growth, making that nation an even greater driver of the world economy. View details »

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Asians Usher in the Year of the Pig

From: Wall Street Journal, Associate Press   Date: February 18, 2007

BEIJING -- Asians flocked to temples, parks and Disneyland on Sunday to pray, play, eat, and celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig. View details »

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McDonald’s Is Loving It in Asia

From: BusinessWeek, by Brian Bremner   Date: January 24, 2007

The fast-food giant is building drive-through restaurants in China and selling curry dishes in India to get a bigger share of the Asian market View details »

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Beijing to Keep One-Child Policy, Acknowledges Gender Imbalance

From: Wall Street Journal, Associate Press   Date: January 24, 2007

BEIJING -- China says it won't loosen its so-called one-child policy, despite a government official's acknowledgment yesterday that the policy was partly to blame for a worsening gender-imbalance problem. View details »

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China Mobile to Buy Paktel in First Foreign Deal

From: Wall Street Journal, By ERNEST KONG in Hong Kong and TERENCE POON and JASON DEAN in Beijing   Date: January 23, 2007

China Mobile Communications Corp. agreed to buy a small Pakistani wireless company for $284 million, the first foreign acquisition for the world's biggest cellphone-network operator and the latest sign of Corporate China's ambition to expand internationally. View details »

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Why China Grows So Fast

From: Wall Street Journal, By MICHAEL SPENCE   Date: January 23, 2007

Sustained high growth in developing economies is a recent, post-World War II phenomenon. Using GDP figures, I take "high" to mean above 7% and "sustained" to mean over 25 years or more. These cutoffs are arbitrary, but a similar picture emerges with variants. Growth at these rates produces very substantial changes in incomes and wealth: Income doubles every decade at 7%. View details »

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Indexes Gain Ground Region – Wide, As Hong Kong, Shanghai Hit Record Highs

From: Wall Street Journal, Associate Press   Date: January 22, 2007

Asian-Pacific markets closed higher Monday, with Hong Kong and Shanghai both reaching record closing highs, while the Japanese benchmark index hit its highest close in nine months. View details »