Dirk gets match-fit for Eastern league

Sporty italian designer label suited and booted for China

Leading lights in Northern revival

German car maker in pole position to help fallen industrial giant rise again

Guten tag, Shenyang!

Liaoning's capital forges links with Germany in effort to revitalize the city

Quotable

"This is very worrying. The main cause is the sluggish European economy, where demand is weak and competitiveness is declining. But the EU's protectionist measures against China have also had a harmful impact on trade."

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Underground movement keeps company buoyant

While on the surface many Chinese heavy machinery makers are facing overcapacity in a saturated domestic market and looking for escape routes, Northern Heavy Industries Group is down below digging its way out of trouble.

Putting on a gloss when times are tough

Fang Jinqi, 32, says what she needs to do most now is to develop a more thrifty lifestyle because her job as a property agent business is stagnating.

Anything Apple can do...

It worked for Apple, and it may just work for China too.

Let the games begin

A Chinese architectural firm has won its first contract in Africa, designing venues for the All-Africa Games.

Shipping industry finds itself adrift

After buoyant times, the shipping industry is experiencing that sinking feeling, with all hope of a bottoming out and rebirth having been smothered.

Shipyards battling to stay afloat

Chinese shipyards have powered ahead and now produce more ships than anybody else, but the business of shipbuilding is becoming increasingly difficult and profits harder to come by.

Seeing the light of reason

Proposals to impose punitive anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panel exports worth 21 billion euros ($27 billion) has brought the European Commission to the brink of a trade war and has divided its members.