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China's Guangzhou port reported a cargo throughput of 201 million tonnes in the first half, up 11.7 percent from a year earlier. The major port handled 6.07 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of containers, up 16.8 percent from a year ago, the Guangzhou Port Authority ...
China's auto replacement policy has boosted domestic auto spending by 20.5 billion yuan (US$3 billion) in the first half of the year, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Friday in an online statement. Relevant departments had handed-out 2.4 billion yuan in subsidies that had ...
France ministers on Thursday expressed great disappointment over a delay of the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s decision on unfair US subsidies to aircraft maker Boeing. The French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde and State Secretary for Transport Dominique Bussereau both said ...
Aviation Industry Corp of China has set up the country's first aviation fund with China Construction Bank to boost the domestic aviation industry. The AVIC Fund of China aims to raise 5 billion yuan (US$737 million) in the first phase and a total of 20 billion yuan eventually, ...
A team of Shanghai government agencies has approved the first business aviation center on the Chinese mainland to start official operations at the city's Hongqiao International Airport. The Shanghai Municipal Office of Port Service, Shanghai Customs and Shanghai Entry-Exit ...
Mental depression is to blame for the death of a senior Chinese civil aviation official who committed suicide last week, a source close to the aviation industry revealed Tuesday. The official, Liu Yajun, chief of Central and Southern Regional Administration (CSRA) of Civil ...
The European Commission has cleared the way under the European Union (EU) Merger Regulation for the acquisition of a stake in Air China Cargo, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air China, by Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways. On May 10, the commission announced having received a ...
Direct sales from major airlines is expanding rapidly, pushing ticket agents to rethink their strategies. Lufthansa and Swiss Air will lower their commission from 3 percent to 1 percent for ticket sales on international itineraries effective August 1st. All Nippon Airways, China ...
China Southern Airlines Sunday opened a direct route from Guangdong Province in the south to far west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the country's longest domestic flight. An Airbus A330 from Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, arrived at 2:10 p.m. Sunday at the Kashgar ...
Asia' s largest and northern China' s first home port, Tianjin International Cruise Home Port made its debut Saturday, welcoming the Italy-based cruise ship Costa Romantica. The Costa Romantica has scheduled 10 cruises to depart from Tianjin Port from June 26 to Aug.19, offering ...
The first berth of the second phase project of Egypt's Port Said East Container Terminal has been completed, the Chinese builder said Wednesday. The delivery of the first berth as scheduled shows the construction has been going well, said Gao Hongbin, the manager of China Harbor ...
Airbus's assembly plant in north China's Tianjin Municipality plans to roll out 48 A320 aircraft in 2012, nearly doubling its current production capacity, said senior executives of the joint venture Wednesday. "The assembly line in Tianjin is well on track, and the company is ...
A Chinese manufacturer has won a deal to produce five environment-friendly subway trains for India, the company's spokesman said Tuesday. Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd., of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation Limited (CSR), China's main rail vehicles ...
Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department approved Tuesday a reduction of passenger fuel surcharges levied by Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines for July. The maximum fuel surcharge for short-haul flights will fall 5 percent to 105 HK dollars while that for long-haul flights will ...
Airline shares surged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Monday, on anticipation that their US-dollar-denominated overseas debts would shrink considerably after the central bank signaled an end to the currency's peg to the dollar. The People's Bank of China indicated during the ...
Airlines across the Taiwan Strait have agreed to reduce prices of air tickets by 10 percent to 15 percent to boost exchanges between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, a Chinese minister said Sunday. "In order to enhance the exchanges between the two sides, the aviation regulator ...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) called for more flights to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, an announcement that follows massive expansion of investment in the majority Muslim area. Industry analysts, however, expressed concerns over the economic ...
Finnish flagship carrier Finnair will compensate passengers whose flights were cancelled due to volcanic ash from Iceland this spring, according to a statement released by the company Friday. Finnair's flights were cancelled for days due to the ash cloud from Iceland in April. ...
Chinese shipbuilders almost doubled production in the first five months of the year with output surging 94 percent year on year to 23.65 million deadweight tonnages, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Thursday. About 81 percent of the vessels built in ...
The first plane of a new cross-Strait air route took off from Taipei's Songshan Airport Monday morning, heading towards Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport. The new direct flight route will effectively shorten the travel time between the two major cities across the Strait as the two ...
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Xi Jinping to lead national security commission
Xi Jinping to lead national security commission
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has decided that ...
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 ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
Xinhua Insight: Emerging economies able to secure steady growth
Xinhua Insight: Emerging economies able to secure steady growth
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China cuts retail oil prices
China cuts retail oil prices
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
Shell companies struggle to stay listed
Shell companies struggle to stay listed
China is planning to clamp down on back door listings. A back door ...
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 ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
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Ghana qualifies for FIFA U-20 women's World Cup
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Ghana qualified for the 2014 FIFA U-20 women's World Cup following a 4...
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Miami Heat's LeBron James (R) stands with teammates Chris Bosh (C) and ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
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Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...