Jack Ma, executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA, quote), has been appointed as a non-remunerated member of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group, according to Agence France-Presse.
China’s economy posted a 6.9-percent growth year on year in the third quarter of 2015, lower than 7 percent in the first half of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday.
Facebook Inc (FB, quote) is caught up in several regulatory battles across Europe over the social media site’s privacy practices.
The first in a series of jobs fairs will be held by Shanghai Disney Resort next week, in anticipation of its scheduled opening early in 2016, aimed at attracting people with tourism and service industry experience.
When Lei Jun told the World Internet Conference in China last year that his tech startup Xiaomi will be the world leader in smartphones in the next five or 10 years, an Apple executive prophetically replied, “It is easy to say, but more difficult to do.”
Chinese (FXI, quote) electronics manufacturer, Hisense, is expanding in Southern African countries in line with its continued commitment to both South Africa and the continent as a whole, the company said on Saturday.
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The Shanghai free trade zone will open the service sector wider to foreign investors by launching reforms catered to the needs of enterprises, and also make policies more transparent, said Jian Danian, deputy director of the zone’s administration.
Stocks surged on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai index jumping 4.9 percent after sliding below the 3,000 level.
With China facing an economic slowdown and many questioning whether or not the nation’s government data presents a reliable picture of just how bad the situation is, metal prices have fallen to multi-year lows.
