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Pedestrians walk outside Sanlitun Village commercial development in Beijing. China's invested stock will exceed $1.38 trillion by 2010, according to a DTZ report. Nelson Ching / Bloomberg news Property service provider DTZ predicts rapid Asia-Pacific growth BEIJING - China will ...
A rickshaw passes by recently built skyscrapers at Tongzhou New Town. Tongzhou has been earmarked by the city to become a world-class satellite town. WANG HENG / FOR CHINA DAILY Foreign chains join the move to operate in one of the city's fastest growing areas Some of the world's ...
Japanese milk powder is on sale at a supermarket in Beijing. SHI HUILI / MIRROR EVENING NEWS Milk powder from Japan is still sold in supermarkets in Beijing and from online stores, despite the outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in that country. Foot-and-mouth disease was detected ...
Cross-bred Friesian and Wagyu steers eat their morning feed at a cattle feedlot in Peechelba, Victoria, Australia. The country's agriculture industry represents about 12 percent of the economy and Australia has some of the largest farms in the world. [Agencies] Business increases ...
ZHOU XIAODONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Housing prices in parts of the city begin to drop in the wake of the government's recent tough measures. Property prices in some of Beijing's far suburbs, where home costs have seen some of the wildest upward swings, are cooling. The softening prices ...
Pedestrians walk past an apartment complex in Shanghai. Millions of potential home buyers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude since the government introduced policies to cool down the nation's real estate market. [Agencies] Property sales plummet as potential buyers adopt wait...
A sales broker at a real estate agent replaces a property advertisement in the company's window display in London. The strengthening of the yuan against major currencies in the past two years has meant Chinese buyers can acquire real estate assets abroad at a bargain. [Agencies] ...
A real estate agent walks past a crowded window full of available properties.[ Zou Hong / China Daily] More are investing despite government's efforts to cool local property market Almost one-quarter of Beijing residents who hoped to buy a home during the first three months of ...
SHANGHAI - Government officials of Yangzhou in East China's Jiangsu province said on Monday they will suspend the sale of a 60-hectare plot of land that had been traded without informing local residents living in the area. Residents in the Dujiang Xiyuan development said they ...
BEIJING - Guo Jingyi, a former high-ranking inspector of the treaty and law department of the Ministry of Commerce, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on Thursday for accepting 8.45 million yuan ($1.24 million) in bribes. Guo Jingyi, a former highranking inspector of ...
HONG KONG - Whenever you take a stroll in the flagship stores of luxurious brands such as Louis Vuittion in Central, or the jewelry shops in Mongkok, or even the health and beauty chains of Watsons or Mannings, you will always find mainland visitors on a spending spree. Everyone ...
A soccer fan blows the vuvuzela as she waits for the start of the 2010 World Cup Group D soccer match between Serbia and Ghana at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria June 13, 2010. [Agencies] BEIJING: Vuvuzelas have become one of the best-sellers on China's biggest online ...
Rental prices in Beijing have been going up recently. [Zou Hong / China Daily] Lease prices for middle- and high-end apartments and houses increased more than 20 percent over last year. Zhang Haitao, manager of the leasing department of Palm Springs International, said the ...
A sales agent promotes second-hand apartments in the capital. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY Beijing's real estate agents are far from happy following the release of a regulatory policy in April that has knocked purchasing prices down by around 15 percent. Chang Yongfeng, an agent with ...
Workers perform maintenance work at Swire Properties Ltd's Opposite House hotel in Beijing. [Bloomberg] Possible rise in currency lures foreigners to nation's realty industry BEIJING - China's property market has seen soaring investment from foreign institutional investors, ...
Island visitors can reclaim 11 percent of purchases from New Year's Day HAIKOU - Overseas tourists to Hainan province will be able to reclaim taxes paid on purchases, including clothes and cosmetics, from New Year's Day as part of plans to turn the tropical island into an ...
The Sanya duty-free store run by the State-owned China Duty-Free Group Co Ltd (CDF) in downtown Sanya, in South China's Hainan province. Mainland visitors are expected to be allowed under a new government policy to buy tax-free goods at CDF stores on the island next year, ...
Gucci, Givenchy, D&G, Prada and Dior Perhaps they are the most expensive brands of sunglasses in the world, but staff at the duty-free shop in downtown Sanya say they will offer mainland visitors a good bargain next year, when the central government is expected to allow ...
BEIJING - Chinese consumers represented the largest Asia-Pacific group of online shoppers buying from overseas websites in the past year, with a preference for clothing and shoes, a survey has found. Thirty-seven percent of respondents from the mainland have made purchases on ...
Numerous parcels piled up in the office of Sto Express, the country's largest private express delivery company, in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo / China Daily] BEIJING - Yao Yunchun, a 24-year-old auditor who frequently shops online in Hangzhou in ...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's leading group for overall reform ...
Xinhua Exclusive: China advised to highlight community healthcare in addressing
Xinhua Exclusive: China advised to highlight community healthcare in addressing aging issue: WHO official
GENEVA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- China should shift its focus from ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China cuts retail oil prices
China cuts retail oil prices
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planner announced on ...
Wall Street slumps following global sell off
Wall Street slumps following global sell off
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks dropped sharply Friday, with ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
HK Disneyland Gets Toy Story Land
HK Disneyland Gets Toy Story Land
A general view of Toy Story Land at Hong Kong Disneyland is taken ...
Malaysia to allow foreign companies make small hybrid cars
Malaysia to allow foreign companies make small hybrid cars
Foreign companies will be allowed to make small hybrid cars in ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
AMR files for bankruptcy protection
AMR files for bankruptcy protection
American Airlines' parent company AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy ...
Argentina's trade surplus falls 27 percent in 2013
Argentina's trade surplus falls 27 percent in 2013
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Argentina's trade surplus in ...
Logistics industry faces reshuffle
Logistics industry faces reshuffle
Every day at 7 a.m., Xiao Lin, a Shentong Express courier in Hangzhou, ...