Ecolab Inc, a US-based producer of disinfectant and food safety services company, plans to increase investment in China, thanks to fast-growing demand in the local market, said one of the company's top executives.
Huawei Technologies Co, China's largest maker of telecom-networking equipment, is banking on the rising number of mergers of computer and communication networks to narrow the gap with Cisco Systems Inc in data routers and switches.
China's Yanzhou Coal Mining Co, the country's fourth-largest coal producer, has offered more than $3.74 billion to acquire the Australian coal miner Whitehaven Coal Ltd.
Three motives for China's cross-border M&A
General Motors and its joint ventures sold 203,367 vehicles in China in April, the third month this year that the carmaker's monthly sales surpassed 200,000 units in the world's largest vehicle market.
China Nonferrous Metal Mining Co (Group) (CNMC), the country's non-ferrous metal giant, is expecting two of its major overseas projects to begin operation this year, said Luo Tao, general manager of the group.
Aiming at becoming the biggest private oil and gas service company in Southeast Asia, LandOcean Energy Service Co Ltd will expand its business into the exploration sector for the first time in 2011.
A confrontation outside the Apple store in Sanlitun Village between a "foreign" staff member and angry customers was resolved peacefully, according to a police source.
Apple's 'hunger marketing' triggers doubt
With two Chinese Internet firms landing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) last week and more expected to come, the US capital market is likely to see an IPO boom of Chinese companies in May.
DHL has rolled out a key component of its multi-modal offering in China with the launch of daily continental rail services departing from Beijing and Shanghai to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and back, said the logistics company in a press release on Friday.
The parent company of a bankrupt Chinese private airline sued the government's aviation agency on Monday for its allegedly improper grounding of the company's planes, which the company says led to its bankruptcy in the wake of 2008 global financial crisis.
China's insurance regulator said Friday it had appointed Yuan Li as the president of the China Life Insurance (Group) Company, the country's largest insurer.
China has levied a fine on consumer products giant Unilever of 2 million yuan ($310,000) for talking to Chinese media about planned price hikes that sparked panic buying of shampoo and detergents in late March.