The Russian Air Force would receive more than 100 new warplanes and helicopters this year, a high ranking military officer said Wednesday.
China's exports and imports took surprising tumbles in June, putting pressure on growth of the world's second-largest economy.
China's box office sales totaled 10.99billion yuan (1.79 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2013, up 36.2 percent year on year, amid a surge in ticket sales for domestic films.
China's economic growth is expected to further slide from a 13-year low as credit tightening and overcapacity continue to weigh on the world's second largest economy.
The total retail sales value in May, provisionally estimated at 40.6 billion HK dollars, rose 12.8 percent over a year earlier, Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department said Tuesday.
China's central government saw its fiscal revenue growth slow down in 2012 and may struggle to meet this year's target, according to a government report released on Thursday.
Industrial parks (IPs) and economic zones (EZs) in Vietnam have attracted more than 110 billion U.S. dollars from foreign investors by the end of June this year, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) reported on its website on Wednesday.
Deemed the toughest year to find a job, the year of 2013 sees a record-high of 6.99 million Chinese students leave universities at a time when employers are cutting down on recruitment amid the sluggish world economy and tempered domestic growth.
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday sketched a brighter picture for the country's economy when Chairman Ben Bernanke sent out his most explicit message that the Fed was likely to begin reducing the pace of quantitative easing later this year, before bringing it to an end by the middle of next year.
Ben Bernanke, the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman said on Wednesday that the central bank would start scaling back its massive bond-buying program later this year if the economy improves as expected.
Foreign fund managers have practically abandoned the Philippines as outflow of foreign portfolio investments or "hot money" from the country hit a record high.
The IMF on Friday lowered its forecast of U.S. economic growth to 2. 7 percent next year, 0.3 percentage point lower than its April prediction against the backdrop of the government spending cuts.
Malaysia will issue five-year multiple entry visas to qualified foreign business investors and fund managers as part of efforts to attract more talents and investors to spur the country's economy, Prime Minister Tun Razak announced here Thursday.
China's fiscal revenue continued a trend of slow growth in May due to tempered economic expansion and the country's tax cutting policies, according to official data released on Sunday.
The Department of Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on Abd al-Hamid al-Masli, an alleged key bomb maker for al-Qaeda.
Deutsche Bank has completed its first Renminbi (RMB) bond issuance in Taiwan in a deal worth 1.1 billion yuan (178.28 million U.S. dollars), the bank announced Wednesday.
Less than one month away from graduation, Jiang Zhiquan, a postgraduate student in Nanjing, capital city of east Jiangsu Province, grows anxious day by day as he still hunts for a job.
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