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HONG KONG - Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong during the first quarter of 2010 leaped by 16.5 percent to 8,624,688, making it the highest figure for the first quarter ever, said the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) on Monday. Also setting a new record is the visitor arrivals of March ...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's total retail sales value rose to HK$24.7 billion ($3.2 billion) in March, up 19 percent over a year earlier, the Census and Statistics Department said on Monday. According to the statistics announced Monday by the department, the total retail sales volume ...
BEIJING: China's lotteries earned 34.62 billion yuan (US$5.07 billion) from January to March this year, up 24.5 percent from a year ago, the Ministry of Finance said Saturday. Sales of the Welfare Lottery in the first quarter totaled 20.2 billion yuan (US$2.96 billion) while ...
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector stood at 55.7 percent in April, up 0.6 percentage points from last month, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Saturday. It was the 14th straight month that the index was above 50 ...
HONG KONG: The Hong Kong economy recorded a fiscal surplus of HK$25.9 billion ($3.34 billion) in the 2009/2010 fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2010, government data showed on Friday. In the 2009/2010 fiscal year, the city government collected HK$318.4 billion in revenue and ...
BEIJING: The employment market in 100 Chinese cities continued to improve in the first quarter, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said Friday. Employers filled 5.52 million job vacancies via the public employment service agency during the January-March period, ...
BEIJING - The net profits of China's 1,837 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses topped one trillion yuan in 2009, the first time to exceed such amount. They earned 1.084 trillion yuan in total, up 25.23 percent on year. The weighted average EPS (earnings per ...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose 2.4 percent in April over the same month last year, the Census & Statistics Department announced on Thursday. April's Composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) was slightly larger than the rate of increase in March, which was 2 ...
MACAO - The median monthly employment earnings of Macao's residents reached 10,000 patacas ($1,250) in the first quarter of 2010, the same level as the previous quarter, according to the figures released on Thursday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Macao's ...
China's insurers posted strong growth of premium income from January to April due to a rebounding economy, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) said in Beijing Thursday. For the first four months, premium income of the whole insurance industry topped 565.5 billion ...
A program for cross-border yuan settlement, which has been piloted in five Chinese cities since mid-2009, will be expanded as the volume in cross-border trade settled in yuan neared 50 billion yuan ($7.3 billion) by mid-May, the 21st Century Business Herald reported Thursday. ...
China added 1.11 billion yuan in the first quarter of this year to its balance of credit card bad debts, statistics by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, showed yesterday. The bad-debt ratio rose by 0.4 percentage points from the previous quarter to 3.5 percent. ...
Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan reached $44.26 billion in the first four months, up 67.9 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The figure included $8.52 billion of Chinese mainland export to Taiwan, up 63.8 percent year-on-year, and $35.74 ...
As of March 31, 2.7 million people in China declared their personal incomes to the tax authorities, up 12 percent from last year, according to statistics released by the State Administration of Taxation on Wednesday. Taxes reported totaled 138.4 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8 ...
China's central bank sold three-month bills at a higher yield and three-year securities at a lower rate, reflecting Chinese banks' preference for longer-dated debt after the government tightened curbs on property lending. The People's Bank of China sold the shorter-maturity paper ...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, said on Wednesday evening that it will still issue a total of 120 billion yuan three-year bills in an open auction this week having primary dealers offering yields, the 21st Century Business Herald reported Thursday. The PBOC ...
BEIJING - A report on business in China predicts Chinese consumers will spend 500 billion yuan ($73.5 billion) via online shopping in 2010, accounting for over three percent of all retail sales. The report forecasts total retail sales of consumer goods in 2010 at 15 trillion yuan...
BEIJING - Major indices of China's large ports mostly pointed to better performance in April with increasing cargo throughput and exports volume, the Ministry of Transport said Wednesday. According to latest figures posted on the ministry's website, China's large sea ports and ...
BEIJING - China will rank as the world's biggest market for luxury goods in five years, a blue paper on China's commercial development from 2009 to 2010 released in Beijing Wednesday said. Released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the blue paper said China's luxury ...
BEIJING - More than 779.95 million Chinese were employed at the end of last year, 5.15 million more than at the end of 2008, China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said here Wednesday. Some 297.08 million Chinese worked in the agriculture sector last year, ...
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 ...