Later this week China will issue a fresh batch of economic data, including inflation and trade balance reports.
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Also later this week China will issue a fresh batch of economic data, including inflation and trade balance reports.
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And again this week, China watchers saw home prices fall again, now down five consecutive months.
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Earlier this week, China reported that FDI fell 0.24% in October, from a year earlier.
Five years ago this week, China officially became a party to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention Tobacco Control.
This week, China has been rife with rumours that the government is considering changes to the yuan's exchange rate.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris said in report published this week that China was on course to surpass the U.S. economy in just three short years.
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Earlier this week, China Daily quoted an anonymous government source -- allegedly straight from the Ministry of Culture -- saying China is considering lifting a 12-year-old "ban" on game consoles soon.
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Gold prices are also feeling some selling pressure this week from the fact China is celebrating the lunar new year this week, which has curtailed physical demand for the precious yellow metal coming out of Asia.
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The former handset king which has struggled to remain popular in the last few years, won an important victory in China this week, striking a subscription deal with China Mobile.
We have certainly seen some good news coming out of China here this week in terms of economic growth, and it seems as China goes, the copper market goes.
According a poll in China this week, the Chinese actually respect the Tiger mothers.
The European Union's consumer protection commissioner is in China this week, and American officials will follow her next.
Berish economic data coming out of China this week has also pressured copper.
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U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn is in China this week, while Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake are expected to meet with their Chinese counterparts next month.
Markets were roiled this week by data showing China's gross domestic product grew 7.7% on-year in the first quarter, slowing from a 7.9% rise in the last quarter of 2012 and lower than many economists forecast.
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Jeep and Aston Martin are among many foreign automakers hoping to woo hundreds of thousands of Chinese consumers visiting the show this week, especially as China has become the world's largest auto market amid a sales slump in Europe and tepid growth in the United States.
They'll also focus on Mattel, which announced a third recall this week of toys imported from China.
China earlier this week hosted a long-postponed visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, marking the resumption of military exchanges.
There is a big leadership conference in China later this week, and there are key European Union events occurring this week.
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Now of course the real money is to be made overseas, and Iron Man 3 opened in much of the world last weekend before debuting this week in America and and China.
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But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
Reports overnight said physical demand for gold from India and China has increased this week.
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Among them, Detroit Electric is making its China exhibition debut this week with its electric sports cars.
This week had many investors worried about China following a government forecast of just 7.5% growth in 2012.
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The deal comes just before the beginning of high-level economic talks between the United States and China in Washington this week.
This week, as he was in China visiting high-level government officials, Mr. Cook also toured an iPhone assembly line at a Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou.
This week is a school holiday in China, but the children were called in to make up for time lost as a result of earthquakes last month.
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