EU firms laud China's new labor law
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China's sweeping new labor law will improve workplace conditions without deterring foreign investment, the European Union Chamber of Commerce said on Sunday.
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Finance officials from the Group of Seven won renewed Chinese backing for exchange rate flexibility and said the United States and Europe had a shared duty to promote balanced global growth.
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Europe needs to create 'good jobs and fair conditions,' German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday as the EU's executive arm promised guidelines for more flexible labor laws to promote job growth.Comment
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China unveils a new law to increase protection of private property rights - the first to cover individual assets.
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A number of European countries have expressed understanding of Taiwan's stance against China's planned anti-secession law, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Michel Kau ( ^ Z) told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday.
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THE European Union yesterday told China that it will work towards lifting its 15-year embargo on arms exports, even though agreement is being held up by a dispute
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The European Union is bracing for the expiry of import quotas on Chinese textiles at the end of the year amid fears of a new wave of T-shirts and trousers bearing "Made in China" labels flooding in.
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The European Union adopted, by the narrowest of majorities, new anti-dumping measures to tackle imports of leather shoes from China and Vietnam, a diplomatic source said.
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US companies in China said yesterday that Beijing had made dramatic progress in ratifying the commitments it made when it joined the World Trade Organisation three years ago.
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A new law raising income taxes on foreign firms in China that takes effect on January 1 will be phased in over five years to cushion the blow, Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing said Friday.
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China should pay more attention to shoring up its product safety supervision network rather than apportioning blame for recent problems, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday.
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China on Thursday unveiled a landmark law on property rights that will bolster protection of private assets and stem illegal expropriation, as the government seeks to balance private investment and state control.
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HAMBURG, Germany  - The European Union urged China on Monday to open its markets to help redress a "huge" trade surplus with the bloc and called on it to ratify a key rights covenant.
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Employers welcome a European court ruling allowing companies to reward workers for long service.
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PARIS, Nov 15 (IPS) - The new African-Chinese economic and diplomatic  partnership, manifested in the pact signed by China and 48  African countries in Beijing this month, is unsettling European  leaders and analysts, who continue to see Africa as Europe's  backyard.
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By Charles Hutzler  BEIJING  --  Chinese lawmakers today formally introduced a hotly debated law that marks one of the most explicit attempts to legally protect personal wealth by a government that only a generation ago preached communist egalitarianism.
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France's Socialist Party voted in favor of the European Union's new constitution, party leaders said Thursday, boosting the chances of success for a national referendum and drawing jubilant praise from pro-EU forces across the continent.