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Nestle, the world's largest food company, offered to buy 60 percent of Chinese candies and pastries group Hsu Fu Chi International for about $1.7 billion to expand in one of the world's biggest consumer markets.
China's Sichuan Hanlong Group has made a A$144 million ($154.9 million) "highly conditional" bid for Australia's Bannerman Resources Ltd (BMN.AX), eyeing the group's uranium project in Namibia near key mines.
Domestic automaker BYD has agreed to terminate a planned joint venture with a subsidiary of French bank Societe Generale that would have offered financing for new car purchases, the carmaker announced on July 5.
China's State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) will fully institute the strategy of "going global" to invest and trade more abroad.
Yihaodian.com, an online shopping website in China, won Wal-Mart Stores Inc's favor this summer and made the US retail giant a shareholder.
A new form of urban development is fast taking off across China. Complexes of hotels, offices, parks, shopping malls, clubs and apartments, known as HOPSCA, are sprouting up as investment increases in commercial real estate.
China Mobile, the country's largest mobile telecom operator, is taking ambitious steps to promote the "fourth-generation," or 4G mobile technologies, according to the general manager of its research institute.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai sends a message that having a US company doing business in China, or encouraging exports to China, is good for the US economy.
Zhejiang provincial food and drug authorities have ordered Taobao.com, China's leading e-commerce platform, to stop pharmaceutical drugs being sold on the website.
Yihaodian, the online supermarket whose investors include Wal-Mart Stores Inc, may choose the United States for an initial public offering as it expands to challenge Chinese rivals including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Taobao.
Huawei Technologies Co, China's largest maker of networking equipment, asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help it sell equipment to states and localities building high-speed emergency communications networks.
Temasek Holdings Pte, Singapore's state-owned investment company, is "bullish" on China and is seeking deals even after selling some of its stakes in two of the nation's banks this week for $3.6 billion.
