China buys 700,000 tons of French wheat
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BEIJING - China has purchased 700,000 tons of French wheat at a price of 150 million dollars, the head of a French grain promotion group said in Beijing.
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German investment in China is huge -- but is it losing its edge? France hopes to strengthen its business foothold in the vast Asian economy with a visit by President Jacques Chirac starting on Monday.
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China&#39;s trade surplus will reach  $250-300 billion in 2007, driven by the country&#39;s price  competitiveness and strong external demand, the top economic  planner said on Tuesday.
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French President Jacques Chirac visited ventures by his countrymen in the business hub of Shanghai Tuesday as he wrapped up a China trade mission that yielded big contracts but failed to cinch a hoped-for deal ...
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China's trade surplus rose a bigger-than-estimated 73 percent in May from a year earlier, increasing pressure on the government to allow faster currency gains.
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PARIS President Jacques Chirac of France will return from a lavish five-day state visit to China on Tuesday with industrial orders worth more than $4 billion, a success that is not going unnoticed in neighboring European countries and may intensify
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Kazakhstan's state-owned energy company, KazMunaiGaz, buys Romanian oil firm Rompetrol for $2.7bn.
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The worldâs largest retailer continues to solidify its presence in China by buying a 35% share of the owner of the Trust-Mart chain.
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China Construction Bank  said on Tuesday it was launching an initial public offer of shares that is expected to be China's biggest, raising more than $7 billion.
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Zinc futures jump to their highest levels in seven years, thanks to a strong demand in China, now a net importer.
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World freight shipping prices, particularly the cost of transporting dry raw materials, are steaming ahead at record levels, powered mainly by China's insatiable demand for bulk levels of imported commodities.
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Struggling French heavy engineering company Alstom signed contracts worth up to one billion euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, the company said.
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Business & money: BHP raises shares offer to Â£70bn mega deal, but China and Australia may fight potential monopoly
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The French bank offered millions of new shares to investors at a fire-sale price Monday, seeking to replace the more than $7 billion it lost in a trading scandal.
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French state-run company Areva  (CEPFi.PA) has unexpectedly agreed a $5 billion deal to build  two nuclear power plants in China weeks after a U.S. rival  appeared to have won a competition that dragged on for more  than two years.
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Trade between China and Africa reached a record $55 billion last year, much of it coming from oil and metals.
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Westinghouse, the nuclear-plant builder sold by BNFL, wins a billion-dollar contract to build reactors in China.