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Hot money flows into China

On the face of it, China might not seem the obvious place to invest at the moment. Yet that has not prevented a record flood of capital inflows

China set to spend more on gadgets

Chinese spending on technical consumer equipment is set to overtake that of western Europe some time in 2009-2010, with revenues set to exceed $100bn by 2009

Beijing voices new concerns on dollar

Wen Jiabao, premier, tells Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, he hopes the US currency will ‘stabilise as soon as possible’ and the subprime crisis will soon end

Taiwan frees up financial ties with China

But the public has started to realise that further opening the economy to China may not save Taiwan from an increasingly challenging global economic environment

Asian nations fight currency depreciation

South Korean authorities sold as much as $1bn to shore up the won, underlining concerns in several Asian countries about weakening currencies in the face of oil-fuelled inflation

Chinese warned of record rise in ore price

Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have asked their Chinese steelmaker customers to accept the largest ever increase in iron ore prices or risk the interruption of supplies from Australia

China unveils subsidies for fuel users

Beijing has launched a number of measures in an effort to prevent unrest and soften the blow of the big increases in energy prices that took effect on Friday

Editorial Comment: Cut oil subsidies

China’s move will encourage conservation of fuel and make it easy for producers to invest in new supply. It is a first step in the right direction

Oil price recovers ahead of Jeddah summit

Traders say China’s move to increase retail fuel prices will not be sufficient to curb growth in oil consumption, and could boost rather than curtail Chinese demand

China fuel price rise is no quick fix

Higher oil prices could lead refiners to raise crude throughputs or even go back into business, but moving toward free-market prices may have counterintuitive consequences

China battles plunge in shares

China increases energy prices

US and China to begin investment talks

Quake reconstruction to boost China growth

SUVs still roaring up China’s sales charts

Comment: Win-win for China-US energy efforts

Chinese inflation falls but pressures build

Canadian fund to mine China

Beijing poised to announce fall in inflation

China hits out at US ‘protectionism’