BRUSSELS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday sent condolences to China over the earthquake in its southwestern Sichuan Province, which has killed 193 people."On the eve of my visit to Beijing, the news of the earthquake in Sichuan Province has profoundly moved me. I send my condolences to the f......

SGS SA, the world's largest third-party testing, inspection and certification company by revenue, is expanding its services in consumer goods and manufacturing in China, a company official said.The Switzerland-based company will add more than 1,000 employees and set up another 10 laboratories in different locations throughout China this year, inclu......

GlaxoSmithKline's sales in China may have dropped 30 percent since authorities accused it of corruption, disrupting its ability to market medicines in the country, according to analyst estimates.Citigroup said initial feedback following the accusations against GSK and investigations into other firms suggested that sales of some multinational drug c......

French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has called for more cooperation with China on exploring new nuclear power projects in third-party markets, including developed nations such as the UK.Ayrault made the comments on Sunday during his visit to Taishan nuclear power station in Guangdong province - the world's largest market for nuclear power stati......

BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang held talks with Irish parliamentary leaders Sean Barrett and Paddy Burke on Tuesday.Sean Barrett, speaker of Dail Eireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament, and Paddy Burke, chairman of Seanad Eireann, the upper house of the Irish parliament, are paying a week-long visit to Chi......

China and the United Kingdom signed on Tuesday 59 cooperation projects ranging from areas such as infrastructure and civilian nuclear power to yuan internationalization, marking the largest economic cooperation effort by the two countries despite previous political spats.The deals — signed during UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's fiv......

BARCELONA -- Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider, is seeing its enterprise business booming in Western Europe, a senior Huawei manager said."Our enterprise business has been growing very fast in Western Europe since we started such business here in the second half of 2012," Leon He, president of Hua......

 The European and Chinese sides have confirmed they will launch their first round of investment treaty negotiations early next year."It will be launched by about January or February, but we are still waiting to finalize the specific dates," a Chinese diplomat based in Brussels told China Daily on Wednesday.On Tuesday at the China-EU Forum in B......

Exploring global market effective to deal with overcapacity, experts sayA string of economic agreements and contracts are expected to be signed during Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Romania, where he will meet leaders from Central and Eastern Europe. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the deals will help Chinese enterprises expand oversea......

Ineos expects Chinese joint-venture projects to cushion losses from EuropeSwitzerland-based chemicals major Ineos Group Ltd is banking on its upcoming projects in China to drive growth in the rapidly changing global energy market.China's huge petrochemicals market and steady demand are key factors propelling growth in the global markets, says Jim R......