General Motors

General Motors (GM) is a US carmaker that was the world’s biggest, although Toyota is challenging it for the title. It was hard hit by the global financial crisis, needing a government bailout, but emerged from chapter 11 reorganisation in 2009, and held an initial public offering in 2010. It returned to profit in 2011.

GM says supercomputers to keep recalls in check

14 May 2013

General Motors says a new supercomputing data centre and a fledgling shift to bring software development in-house should help it limit the size of future safety recalls.

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GM emphasises US investment after criticism of spending in China

7 May 2013

General Motors, profitable for 13 consecutive quarters, is planning to invest US$16 billion on factories and facilities in the United States from now to 2016, more than it will spend in China, the...

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Fear of 'Yellow Peril' lives on

6 May 2013

Today, 131 years ago, the US Senate passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law directly aimed at rejecting entry of an ethnic group, and one of many aimed at the same prejudicial...

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Is political correctness in the eye of the beholder?

5 May 2013

It's tough for big corporations to launch advertising campaigns these days. If they are too tame, no one pays attention. Too edgy, and someone is bound to be offended. Companies run for cover at a...

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GM pulls 'racist' Chevrolet 'ching-ching, chop suey' ad

1 May 2013

Referring to China as "the land of Fu Manchu", where people say "ching-ching, chop suey", might have been considered acceptable, even amusing, when the lyrics were originally penned in the US in...

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Financial benefits of green cars touted

26 Apr 2013

Nissan Motor is joining General Motors and Tesla Motors, the largest US sellers of rechargeable cars, in promoting the money-saving benefits of battery-powered cars over saving the planet.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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GM to add 4 more plants in China by 2015

General Motors will add four new plants in the next three years in China to bring its production capacity to five million vehicles a year, the head of GM China said on Saturday at the Shanghai...

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Industry shake-up may see GM acquire ailing plants in China

GM, already the top foreign carmaker in China, aims to increase sales by about 75 per cent by 2015 to five million units, and a deal with another carmaker was one possible way its ventures could...

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Business Digest, February 6, 2013

No SFC licence for former Merrill staffer

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German automaker Opel picks new boss to steer back to profit

Troubled German automaker Opel, the perennially loss-making unit of General Motors, on Thursday picked a former top Volkswagen executive, Karl-Thomas Neumann, to steer it back to profit.

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CARS

Toyota wins back top carmaker sales crown from GM

Toyota Motor outsold General Motors and Volkswagen last year, regaining the global sales lead after recovering from natural disasters and record recalls that tarnished its reputation for quality...

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CARS

GM retains top sales slot among foreign carmakers in China

General Motors outsold Volkswagen on the mainland last year, keeping its lead among foreign carmakers in the country for an eighth year, after sales of the US carmaker's Wuling minivans climbed to...

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