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Alibaba in Stock Buyback Deal with Yahoo

By staff reporter Wang Shanshan

(Beijing) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will buy back a 20 percent stake in it that Yahoo Inc. holds, the two firms said on May 21.Alibaba will pay US$ 6.3 billion in cash and as much as US$ 800 million in newly issued Alibaba prefe [阅读全文]

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China Clears Google, Motorola Deal

By intern reporter Yang Baibing

(Beijing)–The Ministry of Commerce has approved Google Inc.'s purchase of cell phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., with terms requiring it to continue making its Android operating system free to manufacturers.The approval [阅读全文]

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Commercial Real Estate Is No Safe Haven

By Chen Jian

(Beijing) – Since the central government enacted policies to slow the residential housing market in January 2010, investors have switched their focus to commercial real estate. In the first quarter of 2012, the average vacancy rate of class A office buildings in Beijing was 4 percent – a new low [阅读全文]

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Tencent Announces Plan to Restructure

By staff reporter Wang Shanshan

(Beijing) – Tencent Holdings Ltd., China's largest Internet company, has announced a plan to revamp its business structure to focus more on social networking, wireless and e-commerce services.In its largest business revamp si [阅读全文]

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New Policies to Boost Domestic Consumption

By intern staff reporter Yang Baibing

(Beijing) – Premier Wen Jiabao approved policy measures to boost domestic consumption of energy-efficient appliances, cars with small engines and other goods, at a State Council meeting on May 16.To curb the impact of slowing econo [阅读全文]

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Closer Look: Shaanxi Power Firm Gives State Grid a Shock

By staff reporter Pu Jun

Frustrated by the grindingly slow progress in electricity reforms, a Shaanxi power company has taken matters into its own hands and confronted a national giant. The dispute has been going on for quite some time and involves Shaanxi Regional Electric Power Group Co., Ltd. (SPG), which competes with the domina [阅读全文]

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China’s First Shale Gas Wells Near Production

By staff reporter Wang Yong

(Beijing) – China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) says it will start to pumping gas from a shale project in the southwestern province of Sichuan in early June – the first such production in the country.This project is in Fuling, Sichuan, and will be completed by two subsidiaries of Sinopec: Jianghan Oilfield an [阅读全文]

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Message in a Bottle for Spirits Maker Moutai

By intern reporter He Chunmei

(Beijing)–A glass of Feitian Moutai packs a wallop, which is one reason why the 106-proof baijiu is a hit among influential government officials.They also like Feitian Moutai because a single bottle, thanks to special arrangements between state agencies and distiller Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd., costs only 6 [阅读全文]

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Spy Concerns Slow China Mobile's U.S. Application

By intern reporter Tan Min

China Mobile said its application for a license to provide services between China and the United States was still being reviewed by U.S. regulators. Recent media reports have said the company's application is likely to be denied over cyber-spying concerns. China Mobile International Ltd., a wholly o [阅读全文]

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Sina Weibo's Fretful Hunt for Profit Platform

By staff reporter Zhu Yishi

(Beijing)--Despite an enormous user base of some 300 million microbloggers across China, Sina Weibo is losing money. And its e [阅读全文]

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Safer, Sweeter Goals at China's Biggest Dairy

By staff reporters Wang Shanshan and He Chunmei

(Beijing)–Food safety fears rattling Chinese consumers ever since tainted milk killed children in 2008 have apparently contributed to an executive shakeup and soul-searching at the nation's largest dairy, China Mengniu Dairy Co. Ltd.The reshuffle in April followed a sell-off of the company's Ho [阅读全文]

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China's Young, Burly Shipyards Sinking Fast

By staff reporter Wu Jing

(Beijing)–There's plenty of water but the gold is disappearing along a strip of the Yangtze River that China's shipbuilders call the "golden waterway."A dramatic slowdown for the industry has reversed the fortunes of companies such as Jiangsu Jiuzhou Shipyard Co. Ltd., one of many yards that spra [阅读全文]

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Huge Growth for Luxury Brands in China

By staff reporter Huang Chen and intern reporter Lin Jinbing

(Beijing) – The international luxury brands Prada, Coach, Samsonite and L'Occitane have all seen strong sales growth in China recently, their latest financial reports show.In the first three months of the year, Coach's sales revenue in China increased 60 percent from the same period in 2011. Its global [阅读全文]

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Land Use for Infrastructure Rises Rapidly

By intern reporter Lin Jinbing

Infrastructure construction has replaced real estate development as the major consumer of land plots during the first three months of 2012, the latest official data shows.The Ministry of Land and Resources said that in the first quar [阅读全文]

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Expert Raises Questions over Property Sales Rebound

By staff reporters Wang Yong and Yang Qiubo

(Beijing) – While several real estate companies saw a rebound in sales in April, one analyst said the uptick does not signal the industry has emerged from a slump.Zhang Yueqing, a professor specializing in real estate at the Capita [阅读全文]

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Closer Look: New Iron Ore Platform Put to the Test

By staff reporter Pu Jun

(Beijing) – China's iron ore spot trading platform started operating on May 8 and quickly saw its first transaction.The platform's first deal, finished in the morning, was for US$ 145 per ton and involved 165,000 tons.Promoters say the platform will give China's steelmakers more control over the price [阅读全文]

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Ministry of Railways Suffers Big Q1 Losses

By staff reporter Wang Li and Lu Bingyang

(Beijing) – The Ministry of Railways lost 7 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2012, according to a ministry financial statement released on May 2. The government agency responsible for building and running the nation's railways had total assets by the end of March of 4 trillion yuan and the g [阅读全文]

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Chinese Firms Seek to Score with Spanish Soccer

By staff reporter Mark Dreyer

(Beijing) – When NBA journeyman Damon Jones signed a shoe deal with Li Ning in 2006, it appeared to be little more than a case of a lower-level athlete cashing in toward the end of his career. But Jones was just the first in [阅读全文]

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Caterpillar's China Head Criticizes U.S. Policy

By staff reporter Mark Dreyer

(Beijing) – An often-reported conversation between former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and U.S. President Barack Obama relates how the leader of the free world asked the leader of the world's biggest company what it would take to bring the jobs involved in Apple's manufacturing process back to U.S. soil. The repl [阅读全文]

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The Problem with Letting Gov't Set Oil Prices

By staff reporter Wang Xiaocong

(Beijing) – Chen Weidong, chief energy researcher at China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of the country's Big Three oil firms, bought a compact car in Beijing in 2004. At the time, it cost 180 yuan to fill h [阅读全文]

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Alibaba in Stock Buyback Deal with Yahoo

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