China's property sector continued to recover in April, with more cities reporting higher new home prices and the market divergence narrowing, an official survey showed on Wednesday.
A restaurant in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has been fined 500,000 yuan (77,000 U.S. dollars) for its outrageously-priced giant salamander.
Garlic is usually free in Chinese dumpling restaurants, much like ketchup is in Mcdonald's, but not since its price has increased so much that restaurants are charging for it.
China's producer prices continued to drop in March with the contraction narrowing from the previous month, indicating more robust demand in the industrial sector, official data showed Monday.
（NEW YORK TIMES）A vehicle license plate in Hong Kong sold at auction for 18.1 million Hong Kong dollars on Sunday, or $2.3 million, the highest price ever paid in the city. The plate carries the number 28, which in Cantonese sounds similar to a phrase for “easy money.”
The price of oil has fallen to its lowest level in 11 years as commodity markets responded to signs that the global glut of oil will deepen in 2016.
The Tianjin government on Monday announced the price owners can expect for apartments damaged in last month's fatal explosions.
Government in Tianjin's Binhai New Area said the repurchase price for the damaged houses in Tianjin blasts on Aug 12 will be 1.3 times of the house price, reported Beijing Times on Tuesday.
Chinese consumers have been shocked by recent rises in the price of pork, the nation's favorite meat, with policymakers also concerned about what impact its costliness will have on inflation and the economy.
A Chinese investor will be hoping that luck comes his way after paying 8,888,888 Australian dollars (6.96 million U.S dollars) for a three-level office tower in Melbourne.
As oil prices recently slid below the symbolic threshold of 50 U.S. dollars per barrel, the possible future scenario of the vital energy, which is more than just a fuel but also a maker and a wrecker of global wealth and growth, was naturally a subject of feverish discussions among elites gathering for the annual Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Beijingers will wave goodbye to low price transportation after the government raised bus and subway fares on Sunday.
Falling dairy prices dragged down New Zealand's producer prices in the quarter to the end of June, while the high New Zealand dollar pushed up capital goods prices, the government statistics agency announced Tuesday.
Chinese regulators' IPO guidance sparked stock speculation as the market saw shares of 10 new listings in the last two weeks double or triple within one week of their debut.
China's consumer prices increased at a four-month-high pace in May while producer prices declined at a five-month-low pace, official data showed Tuesday, adding to signs of stabilization in the world's second largest economy.
A black-rind Densuke watermelon, grown only in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, was sold for 350,000 yen (about 3,418.9 U.S. dollars) on Tuesday in the first auction of the fruit at produce markets in Asahikawa and Sapporo in Hokkaido.
After securing the long-awaited gas agreement with Russia, China may have to take on more tasks on the energy front while enjoying the benefits, according to analysts.
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