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East China's Jiangsu province bought 192,000 tons of cotton from abroad in the first five months of this year, up 280 percent from the same period last year, according to the provincial customs. The imports were valued at $330 million, up 420 percent, with the average price up 39...
MACAO, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Some 80.7 percent of the interviewed Macao manufacturers were affected by the surging prices of materials in the first quarter of 2010, according to the results of latest official survey released on Thursday by the Economic Services Bureau of Macao. ...
HONG KONG - The average wage rate in Hong Kong in March rose 1.9 percent in nominal terms over a year earlier, Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department said on Thursday. About 58 percent of companies reported an increase in average wage rates, while 34 percent saw decreases. ...
HONG KONG - The world's millionaires increased by 17.1 percent year-on-year in 2009, with Hong Kong's millionaire population up 104 percent, which is the fastest among the globe, according to a report released by Merrill Lynch & Co and Capgemini Wednesday in Hong Kong. The number ...
MACAO - Macao's total visitor arrivals for May 2010 significantly went up by 31.8 percent over the same period of last year to 2.098 million, according to the figures released Wednesday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Analyzed by place of residence, visitors ...
East China's Jiangsu province exported $75.7 million worth of toys in the first five months of this year, a growth of 19.7 percent on the same period of last year, according to the provincial customs. In May alone, the export value was $18.85 million, up 37.1 percent year-on-year...
BEIJING - Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren said on Wednesday that the country's fiscal revenue exceeded 6.85 trillion yuan ($1.006 trillion) last year, 718.795 billion yuan or 11.7 percent more than 2008. Xie revealed the figure in a report on last year's fiscal situation to ...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose by 2.5 percent in May over the same month a year earlier, slightly higher than the 2.4 percent year-on-year increase in April, the city's Census and Statistics Department announced Tuesday. Netting out the effects of all ...
NANJING - East China's Jiangsu province saw dairy products imports almost quadruple year-on-year in the first five months, due to a recovery in consumption and the price advantage of imports.Provincial Customs said Tuesday that Jiangsu bought 1,537 tons of dairy products from ...
BEIJING - The combined profit of China's State-owned enterprises (SOEs) climbed 65.8 percent year on year in the first five months of 2010 to 749.29 billion yuan ($110.2 billion), the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday. Business revenue totaled 11.5 trillion yuan in the period, up ...
HONG KONG- Total employment in Hong Kong's private sector grew 2.8 percent in March, or by 68,100 people, compared to the same month last year, the city's Census and Statistics Department said Monday. According to a release by the agency, there were 45,960 vacancies from the ...
Foreign trade in economically-developed Jiangsu province in eastern China totaled $174.29 billion in the first five months of the year, a 50 percent year-on-year increase. Exports amounted to $98.71 billion, up 42.7 percent, while imports totaled $75.58 billion, up 61 percent. ...
BEIJING: China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday it will sell 28 billion yuan ($4.1 billion) of 30-year book-entry Treasury bonds next week. The bonds will pay a fixed annual interest rate of 4.03 percent, the ministry said in a statement on its website. Interest on the ...
BEIJING: Prices of farm produce and producer goods in China's 36 large and medium-sized cities have dropped for six weeks in a row, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday, indicating easing inflationary pressure this month. In the week ended June 13, farm produce prices dropped 0...
BEIJING: China exported 3.15 million motorcycles from January to May this year, up 39 percent compared to the same period in 2009 as both sales and motorcycle production in China soared, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday. The total value ...
BEIJING: A survey conducted by China's top quality watchdog finds that technical trade barriers from overseas cost Chinese exporters $57 billion last year, which is $6.9 billion more than the year before. The survey, conducted by China's General Administration of Quality ...
BEIJING: Chinese entrepreneurs' confidence about the macro economy was lower in the second quarter than the first, on concerns of rising production costs and shrinking demand, according to a survey report issued by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) Thursday. The entrepreneurs ...
BEIJING: 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 ...
A leading indicator for China jumped by the most in 14 months, adding to signs that the world's third-biggest economy is maintaining momentum as Europe's debt crisis threatens to undermine the global recovery. The measure gained 1.7 percent to 147.1 in April, compared with a ...
WASHINGTON - China has boosted its holdings of United States Treasury debt for the second straight month as total foreign holdings of US debt increased. The development should help ease concerns that lagging foreign demand will force the US government to pay higher interest rates ...
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 ...