According to the Ministry of Transport, railways handled 34.7 million trips, with a year-on-year increase of 3 million trips.
Cargo volume and air traffic movements at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) rose 21.2 percent and 4.4 percent year on year, to 334,000 tonnes and 30,290 in January, official figures released Sunday indicated.
Rather than visiting families and friends and passing on good wishes in person on the first day of the lunar New Year, the Chinese have grown used to sending greetings from their mobile phones.
A grand lion and dragon dance procession by 21 groups of Myanmar-Chinese sparked Chinese new year celebration in Myanmar's commercial city of Yangon Saturday afternoon, the eve of the new year of snake.
India's ruling Congress party is facing a major embarrassment after one of its senior lawmakers and the deputy chief of the Upper House of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), P. J. Kurien, has been accused of gangraping a 16-year-old girl in the southern state of Kerala in 1996.
The latest result of Newspoll on Monday, conducted for The Australian at the weekend, puts the Australian Labor Party's primary support at 32 percent. The vote is back to the level it was at the end of the parliamentary year in December, and the Coalition's primary support is the highest since July last year.
China's first policy document focused on rural issues again this year, as the world's most populous nation strove to guarantee grain security amid rapid urbanization and ensure the well-being of its rural population.
China's steel industry was confronted with its greatest difficulties in decades last year, as the global economic slowdown curtailed demand, an industry association said Thursday
An estimated 70 percent of garbage in China is food waste, but a new online campaign against food waste is gaining momentum in China, calling for people to take uneaten leftovers home, after banquets.
Train stations, airports and bus stations are getting more and more crowded in the coming days, as hundreds of millions of Chinese are making their way back home ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Apple Inc on Wednesday reported flat earnings in its most recent fiscal quarter. The result disappoints analysts' expectations and cast doubts on the company's growth momentum.
Sri Lanka will declare open a Chinese funded international airport in March this year, Sri Lankan Civil Aviation Minister said on Thursday.
Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Monday agreed to increase salaries for the workers in the kingdom's garment and footwear industries, according to a press release after a closed door meeting.
China's industrial production growth slowed in 2012 from a year earlier to 10 percent year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Friday.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China dropped in December for a seventh consecutive month amid the country's economic slowdown.
India's Supreme Court Friday said that "there is no safety for women" amid the prevailing law and order situation in the capital while responding to a public plea after the recent horrific gangrape of a 23-year-old woman.
In a new sign that growth in the world's second largest economy is slowing...China's foreign trade missed the government's 10-percent annual target for 2012, rising only 6.2 percent, from 2011.
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