The China Railway Corporation said on Sunday that an average of 7.43 million train tickets have been sold a day since fares went on sale for the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush, with this figure up 20.3 percent year on year.
Chinese customs authorities disclosed trade data for December and the whole of 2013 on Friday, which showed notable exports growth deceleration last month.
Thursday's figures showed China's consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose lower than expected in December to a seven-month low.
In the southeast German state of Bavaria, a bus carried 62 primary school students suddenly burst into flames, but no one was killed due to prompt intervention of the bus driver, local media reported on Tuesday.
Syria's Education Ministry announced Monday to include Russian as a second foreign language in the country's education system starting next year.
The Housing Authority projects a decreasing surplus in the coming financial year, manily due to the increase in public housing construction and downfall in investment returns.
China's latest economic figures, especially the purchasing managers' index (PMI) in both factory activity and the services sector, indicated sagging momentum in December, with the country's growth softening slightly last quarter, economists said.
Fewer traffic accidents were reported in China in 2013 compared with the previous year, with no reports of extremely fatal traffic accidents, vice minister of public security Huang Ming said on Sunday.
Shopping fan Marina Kobylenko Viktorovna, who lives in Russia's Kaluga, is delighted after receiving her goods she bought online from China.
China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake in eastern Jiangxi Province, has recently seen a sharp decrease of water level to a record low of only 7.93 meters. Due to the lake's prolonged dry seasons in recent years, an escalating water shortage has caused drinking water scarcity, crippled the local fishing industry, and threatened the lake's ecology. China Report takes you to the scene.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has approved the 14.6-billion-peso (328.9 million U.S. dollars) supplemental budget for 2014 to fund the disaster-hit areas in the country last year, a senior government official said Thursday.
Chinese consumers are spending a record amounts, with total transaction value via UnionPay over 100 billion yuan (16 billion U.S. dollars) on New Year's Day alone.
Vietnam's economic hub Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City welcomed over 4.1 million foreign visitors in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 8.1 percent, according to the City's culture, sports and tourism department on Thursday.
Both sides of the harbourfront were fraught with spectators for the biggest ever countdown firework and pyrotechnic show of Hong Kong on Tuesday, the last day of 2013.
China-Russia trade has downshifted, rising only 0.5 percent so far in 2013, and concern is growing that trade for the whole year might not grow at all from 2012.
The U.S. initial public offering market posted its best year in more than a decade, and the dynamism is expected to carry on in 2014, market experts told Xinhua here on Friday.
Indonesian coal production is projected to rise by 20 percent to over 400 million ton next year as demand of the commodity picks up globally, association said here on Monday.
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