Hints and tips:
...“We will definitely develop a strategic relationship with Nissan,” Lei Zhang, chief executive of Envision Group and executive chair of Envision AESC Group, told Nikkei in an interview recently....
...Hana says minimum monthly wages for factory workers there in 2014 were just $63.8, lower than the $95.8 in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and $194 in China (Qingdao)....
...Eight years after leaving Taiwan with little experience, Bevin Su found himself managing a quality assurance team of more than 700 people at a Nike footwear supplier in Ho Chi Minh City....
...retail sales20.00: India consumer price index, industrial production...
...However, this might not be the best time to try again, given the trade rhetoric coming out of Washington....
...It favours an industrial partner that could bring increased trading or marketing opportunities....
...The country’s two top nuclear groups have also been ordered to co-ordinate internationally but are resisting the idea of a domestic merger....
...On January 12, Zhao Lei took a 13-hour flight from Brussels to Beijing....
...In addition, there is no international co-ordination mechanism, such as the International Energy Agency, for metals and minerals....
...“The market is still uncertain [about the Qingdao implications],” David Lilley, co-founder of Red Kite, a metals-focused hedge fund and trader, said at a derivatives conference in London this week....
...… The Chinese economy has had a wobbly start to the year, with exports, industrial production and investment all weaker than expected....
...But industrial commodities failed to benefit much as investors focused mainly on the uncertain outlook for Chinese demand....
...“Originally China and Japan hoped to use this anniversary as an opportunity to raise all sorts of co-operation to a new level but many ideas have been ruined by Japan’s wrong behaviour,” said Hong Lei, foreign...
...On Thursday, Hong Lei, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, said the clash had caused “grave difficulty” between the two countries....
...For example, Nestlé, the Swiss foods group, this summer agreed to pay $1.7bn for control of Chinese sweets maker Hsu Fu Chi....
...“Weaker imports adds to the lengthening list of variables pointing toward a slowing domestic economy,” said Chi Sun, an analyst at Nomura in Hong Kong....
...“Plenty of other manufacturers are highly critical,” says a Japanese official dealing with Chinese trade issues....
...It set up a branch in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam, in 2008 and has an office in Hanoi. IBK is also looking at entering Burma and Cambodia....
...Denis Chen, chief financial officer of Chi Mei, said: “We will co-operate with the investigation. We have done everything openly and above board and are not afraid [of scrutiny].”...
...Mr Tapner, a Briton, handed over the reins this summer at UBS to Yoon Chi-won, a native of South Korea....
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