Feb. 28 – The Swedish car brand Volvo recently announced that it will invest over US$10 billion in the emerging Chinese market and build up more factories to reach a higher sales target in the next five years.
As a foreign brand acquired by the Chinese auto company Zhejiang Geely Holding Group last year, Volvo did not present a very desirable sales record in 2010. Under new ownership, the company is hoping to raise the total sales in China from last year’s 39,000 to 200,000 vehicles by 2015. It also disclosed the plan to increase the amount of dealerships from the current 106 to 220 in next five years. Continue reading
Feb. 25 – North Korea may have a few things, but one of the more implausible – unless you happen to be a raving Leninist – is fashion style. Yet that is just what Pyongyang’s traffic police girls have become. Having traveled to Pyongyang numerous times on business (China Briefing even produced a North Korea special investment issue in pre-George Bush days, 
Feb. 25 – After a statement in November to warn of an imminent China attack on India, the Indian Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said on Tuesday again that the Indian government should be highly aware of the risk of an external aggression and get prepared for it.
Feb. 24 – Recent weeks have seen a wave of desire for more accountable, more helpful or simply better governance begin to surface. Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt resulted in regime change. Protests in Bahrain and Libya, despite the escalation of violence by government security forces, rage on. Even in tightly-controlled China, a grass-roots movement calling for more assistance for the disaffected parts of society were organized by local leaders. In the long-term, it remains unclear how geopolitics will be shaped by recent happenstance. In the short-term, domestic politics for authoritarian nations are becoming a little bit more uncertain, and in the process, a little bit more interesting.
Feb. 23 – Mergers and acquisitions in India and China’s mining and metals sectors will continue to rise in 2011, after the number of deals grew by 89 percent in 2010, according to Ernst & Young LLP.
Feb. 22 – London-based energy giant BP is making one of the largest-ever foreign direct investments in India to date in a joint venture with Reliance Industries to explore deep water oil and natural gas resources. BP said on Monday it will pay Reliance Industries US$7.2 billion and performance payments of up to US$1.8 billion if the tie-up leads to the development of commercial discoveries.
Feb. 22 – The BRIC countries will all be represented among the top five global grocery markets by 2015, according to the latest research by 