The spillover effects on emerging markets caused by the tapering of U.S. quantitative easing (QE) could be varied from country to country, participants to the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Davos meeting said Saturday.
Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, announced Thursday that live poultry trading in its main urban areas is halted as of Friday to help contain H7N9 bird flu infections.
An eastern Chinese city has offered free services to escort the children of migrant workers home as the world's largest annual human migration began ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
"Best employee" got a Porsche. The "excellent" few scooped 500,000-yuan stocks and trips to Hong Kong. "Good" employees won cool gadgets like NOTE2 and IPhone 5s.
British Queen Elizabeth II is said to begin sharing some of the monarch's duties with her son Prince Charles, as the latter is set to stand in for his mother in a growing number of official activities, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
Macao's Tourist Price Index (TPI) for the fourth quarter of 2013 rose by 6.33 percent over the same period of the previous year to 142.26, according to figures released Wednesday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said he would resign as Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) commander in March to prepare for the upcoming general election, local media reported Thursday.
New data has showed that China's lending in 2013 moderated and the growth of broad money supply eased, triggering forecasts that credit tapering will continue in 2014.
A Dutch national and an Australian have been charged with smuggling cocaine valued at 600, 000 NZ dollars (500,167 U.S. dollars) hidden in a travel pillow, New Zealand Customs officials announced Wednesday.
Canada Post on Monday unveiled a collection of Year of the Horse stamps to usher in the Chinese Lunar New Year, which will start on Jan. 31. The stamps, the seventh issue in a 12-year series, are part of a popular commemorative stamp program Canada Post has been running for the past 18 years.
Employment in South Korea beat expectations last year thanks to robust economic recovery caused by the supplementary budget plan in early 2013 and solid job creation in the service industry, a government report showed Wednesday.
The suspect who shot to injure two fellow students at a middle school in the U.S. state of New Mexico Tuesday was said to be a 12-year-old male student.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Tuesday reported its net income for the fourth quarter of 2013 stood at 5. 3 billion U.S. dollars, down 7.3 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Following another disappointing 2013 and a poor opening week in the new year, caution has become order of the day for investors and regulators of the Chinese stock market.
China's electricity consumption, a key indicator of economic activity, rose 7.5 percent year on year in 2013, the National Energy Administration said on Tuesday.
The average occupancy rate of Macao' s hotels reached 87.9 percent in November 2013, with four-star hotels leading at 90.8 percent, according to figures released by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) on Tuesday.
The China Railway Corporation said on Monday that 154.62 million train tickets to be used during the 40-day travel period around Spring Festival have been sold so far since Dec. 23.
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