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From 2014 to 2025, a total of 105 billion pounds ($170 billion) of Chinese investment could flow into UK infrastructure and real estate sectors, including 43.5 billion pounds into energy infrastructure, 19 billion pounds into transport and other infrastructure, and 36 billion pounds into real estate.

Africans' fatter wallets shift focus of bilateral trade

As Africa presses on with industrialization and urbanization, it is buying more of the machinery and consumer goods from China that it needs to make these two things happen.

Drinks sector suffers New Year hangover

Baijiu industry takes greatest hit from crackdown on extravagance

Room for the modular inn

Chinese modular construction techniques are transforming the global construction industry with their environmentally friendly and cost-effective advantages, and CIMC Modular Building Systems Ltd is leading this wave in the United Kingdom.

Major Chinese investments in the United Kingdom

The two planned reactors are at Hinkley Point C in Somerset.

Liberian hotel stays open in face of great adversity

Ebola epidemic fails to chase away the Chinese owner of Monrovia business, who says decades in Africa have taught him many valuable lessons

Investors in Asia need to bear in mind financial risks

Financial scandals and irregularities can occur globally, but most recently have begun a steady climb in Asia. Until now not much had been documented about these incidents, and there remains a significant lack of corporate governance in these markets. The book was created to address this knowledge gap while keeping the global investor in mind. Co-authored by two leading authorities in the field, it is the first ever in-depth study into detecting financial irregularities specifically in the international financial reporting of Asia-Pacific companies.

Kenya reassures Chinese tourists

Nation far from Ebola outbreak takes initiative to let visitors know they will be safe

New wave of startups fish users with APPS

After having failed in starting a web business twice in the past 10 years, 34-year-old Wang Liang dipped his toes into the mobile Internet business.

There's an app for that: Four apps for specific tasks

Dayima: A menstruation management app for females. It records women's monthly periods and offers a reminder when their ovulation periods come and go. The app has a couples-version for women and their partners. Users can get customized information or advertisements for their health and body care based on their recorded menstruation periods. It tops the list of apps on health.

New app could consolidate meeting planning

As young entrepreneurs jostle into the mobile Web market to woo individual users, Eventown, a company that offers web-based and mobile-web services for site selection and management of meetings, is trying to transform the meetings-service industry by providing services for business clients.

What mobile Web users in China are downloading