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To ease the pressure of huge crowds flooding to get tickets home during next month's Lunar New Year, a 10,000-sq m temporary ticket office with 200 windows - the largest of its kind ever built in China - opened at the north square of the Shanghai Railway Station yesterday. "I ...
A division of a Taiwan-based company has announced a reward of 500,000 yuan ($73,000) for information about any "foul play" linked to the mysterious death of a worker in its factory in Shenzhen last week. Ma Xiangqian, who started working at the Shenzhen plant of Foxconn ...
Sea ice off China's east coast, the worst in 40 years, has caused more than 1 billion yuan ($146 million) of losses to the fishing industry in Shandong province, the provincial marine and fishery department said Thursday.The ice closed 16 fishing harbors, trapped nearly 4,000 ...
Popular restaurants in Beijing are almost fully booked for Chinese New Year's Eve, with three weeks to go before the most important annual dinner. "As much as 95 percent of tables were reserved for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner since we started taking orders in Jan 1," said a ...
The ancient art of Chinese geomancy, also known as fengshui, has taken a trendy turn over the past few years in expat circles and many Western practitioners are flocking to Beijing's biggest monuments for lessons in fengshui. James Jay, CEO of the fengshui resource center, Feng ...
Get Flash Player A cluster of European pavilions are negotiating with a Chinese media group to recycle parts of their structures and exhibits to raise funds for charity in the final month of Expo 2010 Shanghai. China Business Network, the business arm of Shanghai Media Group, is ...
BEIJING - Some bank branches in Beijing have started to offer large discounts on mortgages to their clients, quietly skirting the government's instructions that mortgage rates should be no less than 85 percent of benchmark rates, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. Like other ...
BEIJING - Despite generally downbeat market predictions for 2011, some analysts, such as Henry Wu, head of China equity research at Nomura Securities, are bucking the trend by predicting a rebound, expecting a boost from undervalued banking and property shares despite inflationar...
BEIJING - China will not set a clear lending target for banks this year, instead guiding the flow of credit based on observations about the broader economy, an official newspaper said on Thursday. Citing an unidentified source, Shanghai Securities News reported that officials ...
SHANGHAI - New China Life, the Chinese joint venture of Swiss insurer Zurich, is aiming for a dual-listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong this year, the official Shanghai Securities News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources. The listings will likely happen in the third ...
BEIJING - China Investment Corp (CIC) helped refinance a Manhattan office tower co-owned by Carlyle Group last year, another sign that the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund is stepping up its US real estate investments. CIC joined forces with AREA Real Estate Finance Corp of New ...
Average prices of newly built commercial-residential buildings in the country's four first-tier cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, all surged in 2010, according to China Real Estate Information Corp (CRIC), the Shanghai Securities News reported Wednesday. More ...
BEIJING - China may impose a property tax soon, to try and curb soaring property prices, China Business News reported on Tuesday. The newspaper cited an unidentified source who provided detailed information of the property tax. "The tax will be from 0.8 percent to 20 percent of ...
BEIJING - China will continue to lead the global IPO market this year in terms of the number of new listings and the amount of capital raised, international accounting firm PwC said on Tuesday. According to PwC, the total number of new listings will reach 320 in 2011, including ...
Beijing - The number of illegal fund-raising cases in China has been rising since 2008, with about 5,400 suspects arrested in 5,000 cases, a senior police officer warned on Tuesday. Liu Dong, deputy director of the economic crime investigation department under the Ministry of ...
NEW YORK - Commodities led gains last year as stocks, bonds, the dollar and raw materials rose together for the first time since 2005 after the global economic recovery proved resilient. The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB index of 19 raw materials gained 17 percent in 2010. The ...
SINGAPORE - The yuan strengthened beyond 6.6 per dollar for the first time since 1993 on speculation China will allow the currency to advance in an effort to tame inflation. The benchmark money-market rate hit a three-year high. The renminbi has climbed 0.5 percent in the past ...
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG - China Communications Construction plans to issue up to 3.5 billion A shares in Shanghai, with part of the proceeds used to fund a 1.94 billion yuan ($293.9 million) takeover of an infrastructure company, CRBC International. Shares of both companies advanced ...
BEIJING - China's foreign exchange regulator announced Friday that it would spread a program from previously trial regions to the entire nation, allowing exporters, beginning Saturday, to keep their revenues overseas. The program started as a trial plan on Oct 1, and was only ...
BEIJING - China will implement a prudent monetary policy in 2011 and ensure consumer prices stay "basically stable," the central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Friday. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, will strive to make the monetary policy more targeted, flexible ...
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 ...