Chinese people spent 13.3 percent more on shopping and eating during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, which illustrated high consumer confidence despite a softening growth momentum of the economy at the start of 2014.
New Zealand needs to significantly increase its annual intake of immigrants in order to lift overall economic growth, an independent economic think-tank said Monday.
Sony Corp. announced Thursday it had revised its full year forecast for the year through March to a group net loss of 110 billion yen (1.1 billion U.S. dollars) from a profit of 30 billion yen, owing to sluggish sales of its televisions and personal computers.
China's consumer market boomed during the first days of the Lunar New Year holiday despite falling luxury gift sales, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Wednesday.
IT giant Microsoft on Tuesday named India-born Satya Nadella as its new CEO Tuesday, replacing Steve Ballmer who will retire in August.
Over 62,000 individual tourists (without contracts to travel agencies) from the Chinese mainland traveled to Taiwan in December, registering a new high, the local tourism bureau announced on Saturday.
A 59-year-old man having close contact with live poultry died on Monday morning of the H7N9 flu virus, the first of its kind in central China's Hunan province, local authority said.
The number of messages sent through WeChat, a mobile communication application, doubled on Thursday, the eve of the Spring Festival, when Chinese sent wishes for the new lunar year.
Chinese courts handled more than 13.37 million cases in 2013, up 6.8 percent year on year, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Saturday in a statement.
South Korea's exports reduced last month due to less working days caused by the Lunar New Year holidays that fell on late January, a government report showed Saturday.
A total of 94.79 million trips were made on trains between Jan. 16 and the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival, up 14.4 percent compared to the corresponding period last year, data from railway authorities showed on Friday.
Over 40,000 people fought the freezing temperature and gathered at the center of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, to celebrate the Chinese new year on Thursday evening.
Beijing has seen less air pollution on the eve of China's lunar New Year with less fireworks set off, the municipal environment watchdog said on Friday.
One new human H7N9 case has been confirmed in east China's Jiangsu Province, the provincial health department said on Friday.
Sun Shuwen reached his hometown in northwest China's Gansu Province on Thursday, a day before the Chinese Lunar New Year, after a 29-hour car journey from the southern city of Shenzhen.
Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department (CSD) released the external merchandise trade statistics Monday, according to which the value of total exports of goods rose by 3.6 percent in 2013 over 2012, and the value of imports of goods increased by 3.8 percent.
China's upcoming new year festival season may see a new milestone for box office sales, with domestic movies and foreign blockbusters scheduled to hit the screen.
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