Australian government will invest 36 million Australian dollars (35.3 million U.S. dollars) to expand its food into the growing Asian market which is mainly pulled by China, according to a new plan released recently.
The overall petroleum demand in the United States edged up slightly in April, said a leading industry group in a report released on Thursday.
Pacific Islanders are being encouraged to get healthy and active through sport, with a 14 million AUD (13.5 million U.S. dollars) competitive grants program funded by Australian government agency AusAID.
While waiting for the subway, Beijing citizen Lin Jun fishes out his mobile phone and places an order for 50 face masks via Taobao, a consumer-to-consumer portal similar to eBay, with only a few clicks.
"Iron Man 3", the superhero sequel by American director Shane Black, took in more than 66 million U.S. dollars in its first five days...
Australia's trade balance returned to surplus in March, figures released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed.
Vietnam will launch the first remote sensing satellite, VNREDSat-1, into orbit on May 4 from the Kourou launch pad, Guyana, France, reported the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on its website, quoting sources from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology as saying.
A total of 1.12 million Chinese visited Thailand in the first quarter of 2013, a sharp rise of 98 percent from the same period last year, authorities said on Monday.
Indonesian President Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's current state visit to Myanmar highlighted the two countries' economic cooperation with the two sides agreeing to further increase trade volume to 1 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, up from 500 million dollars set when Myanmar President U Thein Sein visited Indonesia in May 2012.
Even though the fast spread of avian influenza has so far only hit Shanghai, Beijing and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Henan, the ensuing fear has reached nationwide. The outbreak since earlier this month has given China's poultry industry its hardest hit in a decade.
Myanmar entrepreneurs have voiced opposition to allowing foreign investment in joint ventures with local tourism operators, the ruling-party-run Union Daily reported Tuesday.
A 17-member business delegation led by Secretary General Dr T Roy from Calcutta Chamber of Commerce of India will make joint venture talk with Myanmar businessmen at the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry ( UMFCCI) here, according to UMFCCI Monday.
Five million Scots will vote in September next year to decide whether they will seek independence and leave the United Kingdom.
China will have 202 million elderly people in 2013, accounting for 14.8 percent of the total population, the China Research Center on Aging said on Wednesday.
China's coal industry is likely to usher in a new round of consolidations following the announcement of China's safety watchdog on tightened approval for new coal mine projects in 2013.
"Lincoln" may have missed the gong for Best Picture at Sunday's Academy Awards but it took home a handy consolation as the biggest box-office hit of the nine nominees
According to the Ministry of Transport, railways handled 34.7 million trips, with a year-on-year increase of 3 million trips.
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