A brush with global fame

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Arts supplier builds an empire from scratch in less than 20 years

Quotable

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"When you have countries with large economies, it is important for leaders to speak often for a sustainable development. The more our leaders can sit and discuss, the more powerful the combination of China and the US can be in the world."

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CEO hopes to heat up China market

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As a boy at the age of 16, Carsten Voigtlander became enthusiastic about chemistry and loved conducting experiments."They were magic and a little bit mysterious," says Voigtlander, now 49, and chief executive officer of Germany's Vaillant Group.

Reforms will see economy gain

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China's new leadership has taken measures to further cut government interference in the economy and streamline services, a major step forward in giving market forces more power.

Filmmakers have plenty of dreams in the works

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Chinese companies and their foreign counterparts are eyeing cooperation opportunities in the country's booming film market, executives at the recent Chengdu Fortune Forum said.

Big screen drives spending on entertainment

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Chinese passion for films continues to drive the country's overall growth in entertainment and media spending, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

The endless quest to quench palates

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Thirty-five years after joining the world's leading beverage company after reading a newspaper advertisement and touring the United States to sell its product, Coca-Cola Co CEO Muhtar Kent remembers what it was about the company that appealed to him in the first place.

Making the connection

2013-06-07 09:16

Sudhir Pasumarty and his five team mates were feeling upbeat. They had been developing a corporate social responsibility project at the Singapore office of the Grey Group, the New York-based global advertising and marketing agency, and it is ready.

China plugs into Indonesia

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The town of Ubud in Bali may look like a sleepy idyll with its green, endless rice fields, emerald hills and the sacred monkey forest where lucky visitors may chance upon a chattering crab-eating macaque, but its entrepreneurs don't let grass grow under their feet.

Chinese operators struggle in crowded ASEAN markets

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While Chinese telecom equipment vendors have a stronghold in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Chinese operators however are still struggling to gain a foothold.

Riding the crest of a new wave

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Perhaps because it seems so obvious that it is overlooked or taken for granted, but the ocean plays an essential role in China's economic development. More than 90 percent of China's foreign trade is conducted by sea. According to the State Oceanic Administration, about 19 percent of bulk commodities in the global shipping market flow to China, and the country accounts for 22 percent of the world's container exports.

Ahoy there, yachts and cruise liners

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Zhoushan hopes winds of fortune will blow its way

Quotable

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"We all agree that we want to see the US- China relationship succeed. We have made progress in some of the bilateral issues. We have not yet, in my mind, fulfilled our full potential."

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Down slipway into stormy waters

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In 2011 it was grey, 2012 was black, and this year will be bloody. It's not a slogan for some Hollywood disaster movie. It's what they're saying in the shipbuilding yards of Zhoushan in East China's Zhejiang province.

EU firms to step up investment in China

2013-06-07 09:16

More European companies are planning further investment in China, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China says.

Rising tide in sales of smaller marine craft

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The more mature the market is, the more popular smaller yachts will become. This is a rule of thumb in the yachting industry that is now taking shape in the Chinese market.

Industry to get shock treatment

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Chinese local governments are once again trying to jump-start the electric-vehicle industry as potential customers remain largely ambivalent to incentives to get them to buy what is billed as the transport of the future.

Chamber with elevated status

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It would be trite of him to say it, but there's no doubt that Kurt Haerri got a big lift out of sharing a table with Li Keqiang at a lunch during the Chinese premier's recent visit to Switzerland.