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Beijing - There is no foundation for the yuan to move sharply and China can maintain a flexible exchange rate mechanism, making the currency stand at a basically reasonable and balanced level, a senior central bank official said on Friday. Yi Gang, vice-governor of the People's ...
Beijing - Labor union leaders across the country will receive their salaries from higher-level unions instead of companies that employ them by 2011, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) has said. The move aims to free union leaders of dependency on their companies so ...
GUANGZHOU - Slow income increases has become the most pressing concern for Guangdong residents, a recent report by the local government's think tank revealed. The Guangdong Situation Research Center released the "Social Mercury" report last week after polling 4,868 families in ...
BEIJING - Newly-released economic data confirmed market expectations that China's economic growth rate has slowed but officials said the country's economy is still on track. China's economy expanded at a 10.3-percent rate in the second quarter, slower than both the 11.9-percent ...
Suzhou, Jiangsu: The massive increase of animal waste coming from the livestock industry has become a main source of water pollution in the country, environmental researchers have warned. Citing China's first national census of pollution sources released in February this year, ...
BEIJING - The chances of China overtaking the United States as the top foreign direct investment (FDI) destination remain slim in the short term, despite robust momentum in Chinese FDI and the narrowing gap with the US in FDI volume, the United Nations Conference on Trade and ...
A World Bank working paper published online today pointed out that urban transportation public policy could affect a city's CO2 emissions in more ways than one. The paper, based on data available from 1993 to 2006 from 17 Chinese cities, found that increases in energy use and CO2 ...
DALIAN - An oil tanker berthed at northeast China's Dalian Xingang Harbor Thursday for the first time since an oil pipe explosion at the harbor six days ago. The "Changhang Fengcai" left a temporary anchorage at 7:37 am and berthed at the Xingang Harbor at 9:48 am. The tanker, ...
SHANGHAI- China's presence is visible in Europe through its purchases of bonds as well as large scale investments, the European Union's trade chief said on Thursday. "China's presence in Europe is visible across the board whether in China's recent purchase of several hundreds of ...
Citigroup Inc cut its outlook for China's 2010 economic expansion by a percentage point, while also lowering its full-year global growth forecasts for 2010 and 2011, according to a strategy report. China's gross domestic product growth forecast was cut to 9.5 percent, Citigroup's ...
Beijing has taken another step in its quest to become a "world city" by setting up standards by which it can measure the distance between where it is now and where it wants to be. The newly formed Research Base for a World City, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences has released a ...
BEIJING - Flight delays, traffic jams and the need for privacy have led China's super rich to travel by private planes, though space and flight restrictions can still make it difficult for them to take off. Insiders warned the restrictions could put a damper on the demand for ...
China looks set to start levying property tax in 2012 on a trial basis, sources from the Ministry of Finance said. "Property tax will first be rolled out in several cities in a pilot program," the National Business Daily reported on Thursday, citing unidentified participants of a ...
Housing experts have suggested that Beijing impose a special tax on vacant homes, in order to lower the city's vacancy rate and provide more houses to people who are in need. "Houses should not be reduced to being investments for speculators. Their core function is to provide ...
BEIJING - Chinese investors spent approximately 170 million pounds ($260 million) buying up newly built properties in central London in the 12 month period ending March 2010, driven by a weaker pound and tightened real estate policies at home, major international real estate ...
Beijing releases long list of specialists needed by firms There are as many as 835 job vacancies in Beijing for high-end talent, according to a hi-tech industry-recruiting plan released on Tuesday. About 76 percent of the jobs require master's or doctoral degrees and some of them ...
ABU DHABI - China and India replaced long-standing Western suppliers of goods to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to become the dominant exporters to the Gulf nation, accounting for nearly a quarter of its total imports last year, the Emirates Business 24/7 website reported ...
BEIJING - China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Wednesday it is to review the anti-dumping measures imposed five years ago on trichloroethylene (TCE) imported from Russia and Japan. The MOC would also examine the possibility of a recurrence or continuity of dumping actions ...
SHANGHAI - The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has donated $820 million to fund about 100 environmental protection projects in China, GEF CEO and Chairperson Monique Barbut said here Tuesday. At an official celebration for GEF's Honorary Day at the Shanghai World Expo, Barbut ...
DALIAN, Liaoning - Bangchui island, a popular holiday resort east of Dalian, was closed to tourists indefinitely on Tuesday morning following an oil spill caused by an offshore pipeline explosion last week. Several bathing beaches in the port city were also fenced off. Two crude ...
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic ...
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by ...
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev ...
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Financial reform in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
China's banks must evolve or perish
China's banks must evolve or perish
As China's traditional banks raise interest rates to claw back lost ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi Winter Games
Injured Olympic champion Wang Meng has been ruled out of the 139...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...