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Archive for November, 2007

Sinochem snaps up rival

China’s largest fertilizer producer Sinochem Corp has paid 1.6 billion yuan for a 51 percent stake in Zhejiang chemicals maker Juhua Group Corp. The two companies signed the agreement on Wednesd... Read More

Chinese firm wins bid for Saudi phosphorus project

Guizhou Hongfu Industry and Commerce Co., Ltd. has won the bid for a Saudi Arabia beneficiation project, the company announced on Thursday. The Chinese phosphorus chemical giant successfully tendered ... Read More

Tieups for private banking eyed

Credit Industriel et Commercial, Europe’s third largest bank based in France, expects to find local partners to tap the mainland’s private banking business, said company executive yesterda... Read More

Vice Minister of Agriculture: China, India not to blame for grain crisis

It is wrong to blame developing nations, China and India for the current global grain crisis. Niu Dun, vice minister of agriculture, made those remarks Saturday at a seminar on grain security at the o... Read More

Trade between China, S. Africa to jump 40%

The trade between China and South Africa has witnessed rapid growth in recent years with officials estimating that the bilateral trade volume could reach $14 billion this year. The bilateral trade thi... Read More

CNOOC Ltd. Announces the Startup of New Platform of PL 19-3 Oil

HONG KONG, Nov. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CNOOC Limited (NYSE: CEO; HKEx: 883, “the Company”) announced today that Platform C of Phase II of Penglai (PL) 19-3 has come on st... Read More

China Investment Corp. denies reports of Rio Tinto bid

China Investment Corporate Ltd. (CIC), the country’s newly launched State foreign exchange investment company, said in a statement Monday that it had never been involved in a bid for Rio Tinto. ... Read More

China-S Africa trade expected to jump 40%

The trade between China and South Africa has witnessed rapid growth in recent years with officials estimating that the bilateral trade volume could reach US$14 billion this year. The bilateral trade t... Read More

The Laos Nam Ou River Basin Hydropower Development Item held Electricity Selling Memorandum Signing Ceremony

On the morning of November 26, the Laos Nam Ou River Basin Hydropower DevelopmentĀ Item held electricity selling memorandum signing ceremony in the headquarters of Sinohydro Corporation. Thai Departme... Read More

Sinopec to import more oil products

China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group), one of the country’s oil giants, will import another 80,000 tons of diesel oil by the end of this month to help guarantee domestic supplies. The ... Read More

Cooperative Set Up to Boost Fledgling Cultural Industry in China

Over 50 academic institutions, universities and companies from China’s mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan on Friday launched a platform dubbed the China Cultural Industry Cooperative (CIC)... Read More

The Group Corporation and Zambia Signed an Agreement on Kariba North Shore Power Plant Extention Project

In November 19 the International Company of the Group Corporation and Zambia National Electric Power Company signed EPC contract agreement on Kariba North Shore Power Plant extention project in Zambia... Read More

Mainland to help guide bridge fund

The central government will coordinate financing for the planned Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and a tripartite meeting will take place soon. This was the promise the National Development and Reform C... Read More

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