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'Loneliness' in China is now a $1 trillion 'singles economy' in the world's second most populous country with 1.4 billion peopleChina’s growing number of people living alone is driving a $1 trillion singles economy, with businesses offering products and services tail...
EU countries to seek import curbs on chemicals, plastics, sources sayEuropean governments plan to use trade safeguards against surging imports. France, Italy, and Germany will request broad import quotas soon...
From hunger to obesity: Developing world faces growing threat to child healthChildhood obesity is rapidly increasing in developing nations, creating a significant health challenge. This epidemic is now outpacing unde...
Accelerating Plastics Circularity: Turning Ambition into Scalable Action | Industry RoundtableIndustry experts convened to emphasize the need for advancing plastics circularity throughout India and the Asia Pacific region. They ident...
China's factory activity shrinks again in November, services activity coolsThe manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 49.2 in November from 49.0 in October, the National Bureau of Statistics' survey...
Budget 2025: Chemical industry seeks tweaking in customs duties to boost manufacturingBudget 2025: The chemicals industry requests adjustments in customs duties for products like Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polyvinyl Chlor...
Young Chinese turn to AI pets for emotional reliefAcross China, a growing number of people are turning to AI to combat social isolation as the technology becomes more mature and widely acce...
China denies its BRI, CPEC projects faced serious crisis as countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka drowned in debtSeveral reports quoting well-established think tanks said the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its flagship, the USD 60 billion China Pak...
Ukraine war impact reverberates through world’s factory floorCopper, used in appliances and wiring, reached new highs. Nickel, used in lithium-ion batteries, has spiked to a record while other raw mat...
China will resolutely defend sovereignty, push ahead with BRI in 2019: Xi JinpingXi said China's domestically-made large amphibious aircraft performed its first water launch while the BeiDou Satellite Navigation System, ...
Kumar Mangalam Birla says all is not rosy for economy in near-termThe positive outlook dims when one views the increasing trade protectionism and rising crude prices.
China signs deals worth $390 billion with 'Belt and Road' countriesBRI, a pet initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping was proposed in 2013, and five years on, over 100 countries and international organis...
Why the metals rally of this year may still have legsIn a stellar year for base metals, aluminium has led the pack.
No 'hidden agenda' in Sri Lanka: Chinese AmbassadorChinese ambassador in Sri Lanka said China has no hidden agenda in the country and conducts its affairs with the government in an open and ...
IVL set to acquire strategic stake in Dhunseri PetrochemIndorama Ventures will acquire a substantial stake and manage the company jointly with the Dhanukas, people familiar with the deal said.
Recyclers told to use local waste as government quietly slaps ban on import of electronic, PET scrapFor a country long identified as a scavenger of the developed world’s discarded waste, India may have embarked on a path to discard that id...
China's first FTZ in Shanghai to start new wave of reformsChina today unveiled a blueprint for its first free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai that will ease restrictions on the yuan.
- Russia, China warn of dire economic straits in 2009
Russia and China issued stark warnings about the impact of crisis as stocks and oil took a hit from economic gloom. Highs & lows of D-St I ...
- 'Time to blow whistle' on China: Clinton
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton warned today it was time to "blow the whistle" on China, accusing it of unfair trade practi...
- Recalls may hurt China's foreign revenue
Recalls of Chinese goods by US companies almost tripled in the past three months, threatening to cut overseas revenue for the world’s bigge...