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Building a team of all the talents
Opinion
Passing through Birmingham Airport on my route to distant parts I notice on a wall of a corridor leading to one of the loos a large poster promoting job opportunities at the new JLR engine plant at I54.
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Manufacturer creates jobs at new engineering centre
Manufacturing
RDM Group aims to hit £25 million in sales on the back of a £400,000 investment in an additional 20,000 sq ft facility on the Bilton Industrial Estate, Coventry
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On being an alien too
Opinion
The one thing that any period in China does for a westerner is to expose them to the agreeably disconcerting experience of being an alien.
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British and Chinese governments continue the charm offensive
Opinion
The general tenor of the China Britain Business Council Conference was upbeat and focused on opportunity, but it did seem to be in a little danger of toppling over into an avoidance of giving any possible offence to China.
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Firms urged to follow JLR export blueprint
Manufacturing
Post columnist Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya hailed JLR as a template for exporters
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Birmingham Airport passenger figures pass 9m for first time since 2009
Economic Development
Latest figures reveal 9.1 million passengers used the airport in 2013, a 2.3 per cent increase compared to 2012
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Growth sees Birmingham Airport pass 9m milestone
Economic Development
Flights to destinations outside the European Union help airport to reach four-year high
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Ones to watch 2014: 10 movers and shakers in the business world
Economic Development
Graeme Brown looks at 10 movers and shakers in the business world.
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Ominous rumblings from the East China Sea
Opinion
We have become accustomed in the West to parroting the Clinton mantra 'It's the economy, stupid' as the be-all and end-all to political discourse.
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Pictures: Motorsport World brings world's most beautiful cars to city
Manufacturing
The motorsport trade show will host about 600 companies displaying the latest technology, as well as some beloved cars from yesteryear
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170-year-old rail track could be re-opened to create link to HS2 line
Economic Development
Chinese ready to stump up £280m to put thousands of people within minutes of high speed interchange
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Stuck in Beijing and the cards are stacked against me
Opinion
You are doing that check. Then a growing realisation. Oh dear, where is my bank card wallet? I am on the express train to the centre of Beijing. I am in China for the next ten days. Where is my bank card wallet?
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Beijing bending away from Beckham
Opinion
Across downtown Beijing there are huge advertising hoardings featuring David Beckham promoting luxury clothes and watches.
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Great Hall you have here, Mr Li
Opinion
Mike Loftus attends the 9th Annual EU-China Business Summit which took place in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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High speed rail reflections in China
Economic Development
The distance between Beijing and Tianjin is roughly the same as between London and Birmingham, so some comparison with progress of the HS2 plans is inevitable.
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The dawn of a new era in China, maybe?
Opinion
Many of the bigger issues of the change programme proposes are aimed at the economy - heading off the perfect storm some westerners forecast.
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Manufacturing and exports - the reality below the good news
Opinion
Before we get too carried away, let’s not forget that we are still a long way from the point we were at prior to the calamitous decline
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China - not too big to finesse
Opinion
As the whole world seeks to position itself with regard to China, it's good to see the scope and variety of connection that this City already has there. Even the last few days provide some compelling examples.
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Big and small fish to fry in China's anti-corruption clampdown
Opinion
The slogan for the anti-corruption campaign is 'killing tigers and swatting flies' with the implication that it will tackle both the big and dangerous beasts and the more trivial irritants.
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It pays to be pragmatic over China
Opinion
I’ve grown used to being fed the China ‘story’, which is usually served up with lashings of words such as ‘middle class’, ‘affluence’ and ‘world driver’, not forgetting the most important, a generous topping of ‘growth’.
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Matchstick men, chopstick men and everything in flux
Opinion
Industrial pollution is having a grave impact on both health and public mood in China.
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Dunlop Aircraft Tyres workers vote for strike action
Manufacturing
Workers at Birmingham's Dunlop Aircraft Tyres factory have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in support of a pay claim.
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Mark Eaton: 'Made In Birmingham' tags set for China
Economic Development
A statistic that I believe might surprise a few people is the fact that direct exports from the º£½ÇÊÓƵ to China have grown by around 12 per cent last year.
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Unions to fight job cuts at car factory
MG Rover
Unions have pledged to fight the closure of a Birmingham car components factory and the loss of 235 jobs.
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