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 Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will next visit China from Apr 13 to 15, marking his fourth appearance in just over three years.

Spain courts China in new Asia strategy as US ties sour

Madrid’s push to deepen its relationship with the Asian nation not only risks irking the US, but even some of its European neighbours

The entry of major foreign firms could bolster efforts by Japanese policymakers to remake Tokyo as an Asian financial hub to rival Singapore and Hong Kong.

BBVA plans to start Japan brokerage in first for Spanish bank

The Bilbao-based lender has operated a commercial banking business in the country since 2005

The fine is equivalent to six times the illegal profit made by Airbnb.

Spain fines Airbnb 64 million euros for posting banned properties

A tourism boom has driven the buoyant Spanish economy

Telefonica was the second-worst performer on the Stoxx Europe 600 Telecommunications index over the past three months, with a 21 per cent slump.

Telefonica to cut 5,000 jobs to slash costs, union says

The cuts, affecting about a fifth of the carrier’s Spanish workforce, will apply to three Telefónica units

Thursday’s figures ease pressure on the European Central Bank to cut interest rates any further in the near term.

Eurozone growth beats forecasts as France and Spain outperform

Germany, stalled for three years as industry loses edge, remains the bloc’s problem child

Isak Andic, 71, plunged to his death while hiking in mountains outside Barcelona in December last year to widespread shock.

Spain probing Mango founder’s death as homicide: media

SPANISH police are investigating the sudden death of the Mango clothing empire’s founder Isak Andic as a possible homicide, with his son as the key suspect, local media reported on Thursday.

Spain is favoured by BYD because of its relatively low manufacturing costs and clean energy network.

Spain the frontrunner for Chinese carmaker BYD’s third European plant: sources

A final decision on the plant will need to be approved by Chinese regulators

A former seafaring village of whitewashed houses and just 3,000 residents, Benidorm has mushroomed into a city of more than 100 skyscrapers whose population swells to 400,000 on peak August days.

Spain’s Benidorm embraces its Franco-era mass tourism model

[BENIDORM, SPAIN] Fifty years after General Francisco Franco’s death, Benidorm still clings to the mass tourism model it pioneered under his dictatorship, even as protests against overtourism sweep ot...