A growing number of Chinese farmers are making full use of
GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the UK drugmaker that was the target of a Chinese government probe last year, is firing about 110 employees in the Asian country for misconduct more than 18 months ago, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Writing on business in China and India is not easy. Not just because it runs up against a growing and voluminous literature on various aspects of the two countries and their comparative engagements. The challenge is in identifying details and complexities characterizing China and India. These escape observers focused on the big picture, preoccupied with facile questions of when in the foreseeable future will the Indian growth rate match that of the Chinese; or how the "manufacturing" China strategically complements the "services" India.
Many female executives who are seeking to get onto a public or private company board are going about it in the wrong way, say Nancy Calderon and Susan Stautberg, authors of the new book Women on Board. Pursuing a board position is not the same as looking for a job. Interviewing for a job requires you to demonstrate your leadership skills, while interviewing for a director's position requires you to demonstrate how well you'd fit into the board's culture, according to the book.
Premier Li Keqiang famously said in Brussels that once Europe creates environmentally friendly and cutting-edge economic solutions that can benefit China's markets, miracles will happen.
Qamar Zaman Minhas, chairman of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong, had not expected that Hong Kong's first-ever issue of a sovereign Islamic bond, or sukuk, would generate such a strong market response.
In October, the UK government became the first in the Western world to issue a sovereign bond in China's currency, the renminbi.
Fortune Character Institute's 2014 China Luxury Report found that 76 percent of Chinese luxury consumption occurred overseas last year, and that raises many questions. Are import duties too high? Is the anti-corruption drive simply too much? Are there too many fake products in China? Are Chinese luxury shops destined to be venues for bad shopping experiences? Whatever answers you come up with for these questions, it has to be said that the real problem at the heart of this overseas spending is a Chinese character trait: a lack of confidence.
In China, the first half of every March is the time for the so-called two sessions - the annual meetings of the top legislature of the National People's Congress and the political advisers in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The Islamic State group has begun ravaging the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the extremists' latest attack on the country's heritage.
Film star Harrison Ford crash-landed his World War II-era airplane after losing engine power, suffering serious but not life-threatening injuries as he used his years of experience as a pilot to avoid nearby homes.
Japan is looking into creating an overseas intelligence agency possibly modeled on Britain's MI6 spy service, ruling party lawmakers have said, 70 years after Allied victors dismantled Japan's fearsome military intelligence apparatus following World War II.
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