Trade & Investment

• - Chinese Firms' ODI Up 10.4% in 1st 9 Months
• - US Urged to Reduce Barriers
• - China, Russia Oil Pipeline Starts Trial Operation
• - Easing of Hot Money 'Unlikely'
• - Rare Earths 'Will Not Be Bargaining Instrument'
• - China to Reform Imports' Payment Verification System
• - Probes 'Protecting' US Business
• - China to Impose Anti-dumping Duties on Methanol from 3 Nations
• - COSCO Unveils Representative Office in Taiwan
• - 7th China-ASEAN Expo Closes

• - Zippo Lights up China Expansion
• - TCM Hopes for Global Approval
• - Chinese Business Delegation Visits Denmark to Expand Retail Co-op
• - Volvo May Go China's West
• - Daimler Sees China as Its No. 1 Market
• - 'Big Growth Agenda' for Rio Tinto
• - Chinese Home Buyers Heading Overseas
• - China Denies Reports of Rare Earth Export Quota Cut
• - Clean Energy Probe Equals 'Protectionism'
• - China Increases Holdings of US T-bonds

• - Chinese Companies to Tap Aussie Coal Reserves
• - Region Revels in US$4.5 Tln Free Trade Market
• - Free Trade Beckons at Expo in Nanning
• - China to Reduce Rare Earth Export Quotas
• - US Clean Energy Probe Rejected
• - Canton Fair Opens amid Yuan Appreciation Worries
• - China's Economic Stability Benefits US
• - Indonesia Offers Investment Opportunities to China
• - Gamesa Partners with Local Firms
• - September FDI Hits US$8.384 Bln