Oil prices rebounded strongly Wednesday despite rising U.S. crude inventories last week as traders bought the dip.
China's relaxation of its one-child birth control policy after three decades has not resulted in a baby boom as officials once feared.
"Taken 3" took over the first place from "The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies", the three times champion, and led the North American weekend box office with an estimated debut of 40.4 million U.S. dollars.
As of Jan. 5, the U.S. Defense Department has spent 384.9 million dollars in response to the Ebola crisis that broke out in Africa last year, according to a DOD statement released on Thursday.
A total of 680 fugitives suspected of economic crimes have been repatriated to China as a result of the transnational "Fox Hunt" operation launched in July, the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
Despite a drop in the number of domestic guests staying in Austrian hotels, strong foreign visitor numbers have led to a 0.7 percent increase in the number of overnight stays for the month of November 2014.
China is boosting potato acreage to transform the crop into the country's fourth staple food after rice, wheat and corn, said Yu Xinrong, vice minister of agriculture, at a seminar on Tuesday.
The deficit in Kenya's balance of trade has widened considerably as imports accelerate to 1.8 billion U.S. dollars a month, according to new economic data.
Oil prices plummeted Monday amid growing supplies from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
The latest Hobbit movie edged out "Unbroken" to take the number one spot at the North American weekend box office.
UnionPay International announced plans to expand its overseas presence Friday, with company's services already available in 148 countries and regions outside the Chinese mainland.
The Philippine government is now focusing on recovery and rehabilitation instead of relief work in areas struck by Typhoon Hagupit (local name Ruby), President Benigno Aquino III said Monday.
The chief negotiators of New Zealand and South Korea have initialed the text of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), in an important step towards boosting trade between the two nations, New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said Monday.
Myanmar has become a full member of the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF), joining other ASEAN members and Asian Development Bank (ADB), a semi-official media quoted a statement of AIF Director for Myanmar U Maung Maung Win as saying on Friday.
China's mobile social networking platform Momo Inc. listed its shares Thursday on the NASDAQ global select market.
A former executive of an SOE in south China's Guangdong Province was sentenced to death on Wednesday on charges of bribery and embezzlement amounting to nearly 400 million yuan.
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1" is on track to become the second-highest-grossing movie of the year, as it topped the North American box office for the third consecutive weekend.
简体中文
