(Reuters) – A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran’s largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show. The system was part...
(Reuters) – The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top customers China and India exposed to the...
A call for a “Buy European Act” by French President Nicolas Sarkozy based on a US law that obliges use of domestically-made products in public contracts, could prove troublesome, economists warn. The proposal, made...
More than 30 million Chinese people live in caves, many of them in Shaanxi province where the Loess plateau, with its distinctive cliffs of yellow, porous soil, makes digging easy and cave dwelling a...
Last week, the EU, US and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to look at China’s export restriction on rare earth metals. Lawyers believe the case will run and run. The 17...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Days before Iran’s just-completed parliamentary elections, the country’s supreme leader gave what amounted to a pep rally on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear views. Atomic technology is a pillar of...
China plans to increase defense spending 11.2 percent this year as the country’s expanding global commitments and lingering territorial disputes drive demand for more warships, missiles and fighter planes. Military spending is set to...
China has hit out at comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on its stance on Syria. A foreign ministry spokesman called the comments unacceptable, and the official Communist Party newspaper described the...
(Reuters) – China’s oil and commodities firms are set to tread more carefully in Africa after being stung by kidnappings, seizures of cargo and, most recently, the expulsion of a chief executive. But they...
