Virgin Australia, the country's second largest carrier, reported on Friday a statutory loss after tax of 83.7 million AU dollars (75 million U.S. dollars) for the first half of the 2014 financial year.
Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, is planning a stock market listing in New York "relatively soon", a source told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Warner Bros. Pictures' 3D computer animated comedy "The Lego Movie" easily secured the first place at the North American box office for a third time, ahead of this week's newcomers "3 Days to Kill" and "Pompeii".
New Zealand tax revenue fell below forecast in the second half of last year, leaving the government with an operating deficit of 1.8 billion NZ dollars (1. 49 billion U.S. dollars), which was 380 million NZ dollars (315.58 million U.S. dollars) worse than expected, the New Zealand Treasury announced Friday.
Drought has cut Sri Lanka's tea production by 50 percent causing havoc to the livelihoods of about 400,000 small holders largely in the south and prompting possible relief from the Government, which has described the situation as " disturbing", officials said here on Wednesday.
Chinese Internet company Tencent announced on Wednesday that it had purchased a 20-percent stake in the country's lifestyle and group buying website Dianping.com.
The number of mobile phone users in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has exceeded 2.6 million, according to a regional information and technology department.
In the past four months, about 3.3 million Americans have signed up for private insurance plans under President Barack Obama's signature comprehensive healthcare reform, the Obama administration announced Wednesday.
"The Lego Movie" tops this weekend's North American box office, which shows that Warner Bros. ' has successfully brought the world famous toy on screen.
Alipay, a leading Chinese third-party payment platform, announced Saturday it has become the largest mobile payment provider in the world.
Singapore authorities will pump some 22 million Singapore dollars (17.3 million U.S. dollars) to support its maritime industries, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Thursday.
The Dutch intelligence and security services have collected data on 1.8 million phone calls, text messages, mail traffic and browsing habits by the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013.
The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers reached nearly 114 million at the end of December 2013 with addition of 16.604 million new users in the immediate past year, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed Monday.
Voting in Thailand's tense general elections ended at 3 p.m. Sunday and ballot counting has begun.
A total of 94.79 million trips were made on trains between Jan. 16 and the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival, up 14.4 percent compared to the corresponding period last year, data from railway authorities showed on Friday.
A 60 mm mortar shell exploded in northern Cambodia Thursday afternoon, claiming the livers of two boys and a girl, the local police said.
Despite the achievements made in the past three decades, China should change its development mode in order to continue its prosperity, suggested U.S. experts on China.
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