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Group-purchasing websites have the most potential for advertisers, who are witnessing a boom for their industry on the Internet thanks to the increasing number of netizens and the development of online companies in China, according to a new report. During the first quarter of ...
Judging from the interest rates environment, the property market in Hong Kong faces risks worse than those seen in 1997, said Norman Chan, director of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The Hong Kong property market experienced reversals in 2011, and although the market slightly ...
China's dairy industry has the lowest quality standards in the world and much of the blame is down to the large companies that dominate it and the rock-bottom prices they pay farmers for raw milk, said industry experts. "Milk processors and farmers all know that the problems of ...
Although 360buy.com extended its business to other fields, such as general merchandise, books and clothes, electrical products remain the biggest proportion of total sales, contributing more than 90 percent of revenue last year. Liu raised the earnings forecast of 360buy.com to ...
China's lottery sales in the first five months rose 32.5 percent year-on-year to 83.69 billion yuan (about 12.88 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Monday. Sales of welfare lottery tickets during the period jumped 32.1 percent year-on-year to reach 48...
Because automobiles need maintenance and replacement of tires one or two years after they are purchased, the large number of car owners in China will rely on the services of after-sales companies. "Only 100 people in every thousand in China own a car. It's a ratio much lower than ...
Softbank Corp is said to be close to an agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd over the transfer of online payment unit Alipay. Softbank chairman Masayoshi Son said he expects to reach an agreement over the Alipay dispute soon, without elaborating, as he spoke at an energy ...
The fast growth in China's third-generation (3G) cell phone network usage is driving up customer numbers at China Telecom Corp Ltd. It aims to achieve 200 million mobile subscribers by the end of 2014. Wang Xiaochu, the company's general manager, said China is preparing for an ...
Mediocre phones Lenovo's latest effort to take on Apple was the launch of the PC tablet LePad in March in China. "LePad, closer to the heart of Chinese consumers" was the advertising slogan. Yang Yuanqing, chief executive officer of Lenovo, said he was confident LePad would have ...
Trusted design For years, the company's line of high-profit margin PC laptops was based mainly on the trusted design it inherited from the purchase of IBM's PC business in 2005. In recent months, Lenovo has broken the mold with some creations that are widely considered to be ...
CULTURE AND LANGUAGE Another problem facing China's outsourcing companies is their lack of competitiveness in exploring the U.S. and European markets. While the United States and Europe make up about 80 percent of the world's outsourcing market, and Japan accounts for about 10 ...
OVERALL PLANNING TO CURB OVERCAPACITY As China is transforming its economy from being based on low wages to value-added products, many Chinese cities are considering whether to make the software sector their leading economic driving force, business leaders told Xinhua. Inspired ...
House trading has remained largely tepid in Beijing since the nation's capital promulgated a series of purchase limit policies on Feb. 16 to help cap the soaring home prices. According to the municipal bureau of statistics, 4.52 million square meters of commercial houses were ...
"For those developers with sufficient cash in hand, it is natural for them to enter the mining market for greater profits," he said. According to financial statements by housing companies, more than half of property developers enjoyed a profit margin of around 60 percent on their ...
A China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec) refinery in Beijing. Sinopec operates 13 of the country's 20 mega-refineries with more than 10 million tons of refining capacity. [China Daily] China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, the country's biggest refiner by capacity, is planning to ...
China's efforts to expand the use of clean energy will facilitate the rapid development of the geothermal power industry over the next five years, with a market scale of 70 billion yuan (about 10.8 billion U.S. dollars), experts have said. Geothermal energy will supply heating ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., Asia's largest oil refiner, also known as Sinopec, is planning to invest more than 100 billion yuan (15.43 billion U.S.dollars) for a new refining complex in China's east Jiangsu Province, reported Saturday's China Daily. The project, with an ...
A new hydropower station became operational Friday in southwest Tibet Autonomous Region, as a first step to build a clean energy base in the plateau region. The Laohuzui -- which translates into "tiger's mouth" -- hydropower station in Gongbo Gyamda County of Nyingchi Prefecture, ...
Every country is basically on the same level in terms of cloud computing, but government support is critical, said vice-president of Microsoft Greater China on Friday. Zeng Liang made the remarks at an ongoing annual software and outsourcing conference in China's northeastern ...
BYD Co Ltd, the Chinese car maker backed by US billionaire investor Warren Buffett, said late Thursday that it had received formal approval from China's top securities regulator for an A-share listing on the Shenzhen market. The company, which already has shares listed in Hong ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
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