EYE ON CHINA

India, China take Visa on Asia drive
Financial Express - Bombay,India
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 20: With robust growth in consumer spending in India and China, Visa cardholders across the Asian region spent more than 19 billion dollars ...

Joint venture gives Melodeo market in China
Seattle Times - United States
Seattle-based Melodeo is eyeing China's 350 million mobile subscribers as a prime audience for buying songs delivered to mobile phones. ...

China arrests rise in restive Xinjiang
Reuters - USA
... Uighur activists, who Beijing says are terrorists trying to split China, have been struggling for decades for self-determination in remote Xinjiang, formally ...

China pays 40.7% more for crude imports in 2005
Xinhua - China
BEIJING, Jan. 20 -- China's crude oil imports bill surged 40.7 percent last year due to the hike in prices globally. China paid ...

China's BlueStar signs a deal to acquire French Adisseo Group
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
China National BlueStar (Group) Corporation acquired France-based Adisseo Group Tuesday in Brussels, Belgium, reports People's Daily on Thursday. ...

Libya denies Taiwan invite, backs ties with China
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
... its leader Muammar Gaddafi had invited Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian to visit the country and reaffirmed its commitment to a pro-Beijing one China policy. ...

Arabic nations become China's 8th biggest trade partner
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Arabic nations have become China's eighth biggest trade partner, the seventh biggest export market and import source last year, People's Daily reporter learned ...