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With gaming gross revenues surging by 22.3 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2009, Macao saw its GDP expand by 8.2 percent in the period, putting an end to the economic downturn in the previous three quarters. Being the only place in China where gambling is legal, ...
Total deposits with authorized institutions in Hong Kong rose 0.9 percent in October, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said Monday. During the month, foreign-currency deposits rose 1.3 percent, while Hong Kong-dollar deposits grew 0.4 percent as demand and savings deposits were ...
China has put in nearly 15 billion yuan ($2.19 billion) and dispatched more than 200,000 personnel in its second nationwide land census that started in June 2007, Xu Shaoshi, Minister of Land and Resources, said Monday. The Quickbird satellite, an American earth-imaging satellite...
Total receipts of Hong Kong's insurance industry in 2008 decreased significantly by 40 percent year-on-year, mainly due to the decline in life insurance business, statistical authorities said on Monday. The latest surveys of Hong Kong special administrativie region's Census and ...
Macao registered a trade deficit of 23.26 billion patacas ($2.94 billion) in the first ten months of 2009, an increase of 4.2 percent over the same period of last year, according to the figures released on Monday by the region's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). From January ...
Housing prices in China's 70 large and medium-sized cities rose 7.8 percent in December 2009 from a year earlier, up 1.5 percent compared to the previous month, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. The property price increase stood at 5.7 percent in November year...
Exports of mechanical and electrical products, which account for more than half of the nation's export volume, are expected to increase by 10 percent in 2010, a senior government official said yesterday. The overall export scenario this year will "definitely improve" compared ...
China's civil aviation industry moved out of the red and began to report overall profits in 2009, according to Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). Civil aviation firms reported total profits of 12.2 billion yuan ($1.79 billion), compared with 2008's losses of 26 ...
China's grain enterprises purchased 287.6 million tons of grain from peasants in 2009, effectively stabilizing domestic grain prices and protecting farmers' interests, said head of the State Administration of Grain Nie Zhenbang Monday. China had raised minimum purchase prices for ...
Some 600 films screened in China last year grossed 6.2 billion yuan ($908 million) at the box office, according to Chinese film authority Friday. It was a 42.9 percent increase from 2008, said Tong Gang, director of film bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and ...
China's 2009 fiscal revenue was estimated at 6.85 trillion yuan ($1 trillion), an increase of 11.7 percent over a year earlier, Finance Minister Xie Xuren said in Beijing Sunday. Xie also said the budget of public investment in 2010 from the central government was likely to stand ...
China's foreign trade in 2009 dropped 13.9 percent from a year earlier to $2.21 trillion and its trade surplus last year slid 34.2 percent year-on-year to $196.1 billion, according to figures released Sunday by the General Administration of Customs (GAC). In breakdown, China's ...
China's business climate index, a major measurement of macro-economic outlook, rose 6.2 points in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday. The quarterly business climate index climbed from 124.4 in the third quarter to 130...
The annual per capita GDP in Beijing was expected to top $10,000 in 2009 as the national capital expected an over 9.5 percent economic growth, said an official with the municipal economic planning agency Thursday. Beijing expected to rake in financial revenue totaling 202.7 ...
Total revenue in China's tourism industry is expected to grow 13 percent to hit 1.4 trillion yuan ($205 billion) in 2010, as the country rolls out favorable policies to back the industry, said the China Tourism Academy in a report released Thursday. Chinese tourists are forecast ...
China's power generation capacity rose 10.23 percent to 874 million kilowatts by the end of 2009, only second to the US, according to figures released Thursday. Thermal electricity accounted for 74.6 percent of the total, or 652 million kilowatts, down 1.45 percentage points year...
A total of 35,000 people have obtained the professional certificate of social work in 2009 after passing a nationwide test, which would help improve the country's social services evaluation system, minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju said Thursday. The training of professional ...
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced Wednesday that by the end of September, the outstanding amount of China's foreign debt stood at $386.77 billion, increased $12.11 billion, or 3.23 percent from the end of 2008. China's foreign debt rebounded for ...
China's tourism industry reaped revenue of 1.26 trillion yuan ($185 billion) in 2009, up 9 percent year on year, on the back of booming domestic travel. Domestic tourists made 1.9 billion trips last year, a rise of 11 percent, which generated 1 trillion yuan of revenue for the ...
The trade volume at the Yiwu market in east China's Zhejiang province, the country's largest distribution center for small commodities, set a new record high in 2009 despite the global financial downturn, local authorities said Friday. The market reported a trade volume of 41.2 ...
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 ...