Easier trade procedures to energize cooperation

Vice-premier urges forum to combat smuggling, counter protectionist forces

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Financial giants help women entrepreneurs

The International Finance Corp, Ant Financial Group and the 10,000 Women Project of Goldman Sachs Group Inc recently launched China's first Internet financial loan service for women, to help tackle the financial problems facing small and micro-sized businesses and female entrepreneurs.

Philanthropists cast wide net to attract funds from donors

As China pushes ahead with its "Internet Plus" initiative of integrating Internet technologies with modern manufacturing, its philanthropists are promoting their own "philanthropy plus" initiative that hopes to use new investment models and technological innovations to maximize social giving.

Telecom firms bring hope in Colombia

By connecting Colombians with the world, Chinese telecoms firms are doing a great job in facilitating the Colombian government's anti-poverty drive, one of its main missions.

CSR department roles become more popular

Study shows 61% of participants work in firms that set up CSR units in the past year ZHU WENQIAN

Can coffee revive Australia?

Australia is betting on plumbers and coffee-shop owners over scientists and researchers to drive the nation's next wave of economic growth.

Maneuver at Samsung strengthens heir's influence

Two key Samsung companies are merging in a step toward ensuring the son of the group's ailing chairman inherits control of the theme parks to smartphones conglomerate.

No rest in Japan as workers shun vacations

Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave.

Charter agrees to buy Time Warner Cable for $55b

Charter Communications Inc agreed to buy Time Warner Cable Inc for about $55 billion in cash and stock, scooping up the cable provider after getting last-minute competition from French billionaire Patrick Drahi.

Frozen carrots: The weapon in India's inflation war

The workers extracting mango pulp, freezing carrots and packing spring rolls in southern India are the foot soldiers in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inflation war.

Shenzhen looks to move up the ladder

Boosting investment in innovation and nurturing talent could take the economy of Shenzhen, a testing ground for China's reform and opening-up, to a higher level within five years, according to local officials.