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With wary eye on the U.S., China courts India

May 21, 2013 17:45
By Frank Jack Daniel and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, smiling and effusive, was out to smooth ruffled feathers in India this week, promising to ease tensions and increase trade between Asia's fastest growing economies in his first trip overseas since taking office. "China will make your dream come true," Li told a banquet hall filled with Chinese and Indian business executives in the financial capital of Mumbai as he wound up his visit on Tuesday.

Chinese PM vows to open up markets to India

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 04:45
Visiting Premier Li Keqiang promised Tuesday to open China's vast domestic market wider to India and forge a "dynamic trade balance" to deepen economic ties and ease tensions between the Asian giants. The trade push, which the countries say will supply "new engines" to lift the stumbling global economy, came amid efforts by the nuclear-armed powers to put a military dispute along their contested Himalayan border behind them.

Chinese premier tells Indian business leaders of need for greater economic ties

The Canadian PressMay 20, 2013 03:45
NEW DELHI - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Indian business leaders Tuesday that developing stronger economic ties between their two nations would have huge benefits for both sides. Li spoke a day after holding meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during which the two leaders played down a recent border dispute and stressed the aim of forging deeper co-operation. Li told the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday that India and China were both enormous markets with incredible potential for growth.

China offers India a 'handshake across the Himalayas'

May 20, 2013 01:30
By Frank Jack Daniel and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the Himalayas.

Chinese premier arrives in India for talks

Agence France-PresseMay 19, 2013 07:15
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday afternoon on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance. Li, who brought with him a large Chinese delegation, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday and meet other Indian leaders including from the main opposition BJP party, foreign ministry officials said. Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress party, will also meet the Chinese leader, they added.

S. Korea, China slam Japan leaders' perception of history

Kyodo News InternationalMay 9, 2013 06:11
South Korea and China repeated calls Thursday for Japanese leaders to have a correct recognition of history, criticizing Japanese Cabinet members' recent visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine. "To have a correct recognition of the history is easy to do. It's just to admit misdeeds and not to repeat those misdeeds," South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai Young told a press briefing in Seoul.

Young, suburban and mainly from Asia: Canada's immigrant population surges

The Canadian PressMay 8, 2013 09:39
OTTAWA - The debut of Canada's controversial census replacement survey shows there are more foreign-born people in the country than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century. They're young, they're suburban, and they're mainly from Asia, although Africans are arriving in growing numbers. But the historical comparisons are few and far between in the National Household Survey, which Statistics Canada designed — at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's behest — to replace the cancelled long-form census of the past.

Exclusive: EU to propose duties on Chinese solar panels

May 7, 2013 12:54
By Robin Emmott and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU's trade chief will recommend placing punitive import duties on billions of euros of solar panels from China, people close to the matter say, putting up a barrier to protect European producers but risking upsetting Beijing. The case, the biggest the Commission has ever targeted, highlights the balancing act facing Brussels as Europe tries to protect against cheap imports while needing China, the EU's second largest trading partner, to help it emerge from recession.

Japanese traders return from holiday in buoyant mood, sending Nikkei up to 5-year highs

The Canadian PressMay 7, 2013 01:30
LONDON - Japanese stocks outperformed all others Tuesday as traders in the country returned from a public holiday in buoyant mood, sending the Nikkei index above 14,000 for the first time in nearly five years. The Nikkei surged 3.6 per cent to 14,180.24 on its first day of trading following the Golden Week holiday — that's the first time the Nikkei has breached the 14,000 mark since June 2008.

CORRECTED: Japan, China, S. Korea to cooperate on air pollution

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 10:46
Japan, China and South Korea agreed Monday to cooperate in the fight against cross-border air pollution, despite strained relations between the neighbours because of territorial disputes. The annual ministerial environmental meeting in Kitakyushu, southern Japan, on Sunday and Monday, came after acrid haze blanketing swathes of China earlier this year sparked health warnings in Japan as the smog spread across the ocean. The meeting agreed the launch of a new forum to share information on environmental policy and technology, according to a joint statement.
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