The popular holiday island of Hainan in southern China sold 321,300 offshore duty-free items, worth 340 million yuan (52.1 million U.S. dollars), during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, according to customs sources.
For Yuan Lizhen, a migrant worker from southeastern China's Jiangxi province, her first month as a newsstand owner in Shenzhen was not as easy as it seemed.
China’s state-run media has escalated its rhetoric against market speculation on its currency and economy, with a top mouthpiece claiming billionaire investor George Soros had “declared war against China”.
As the Nordic Council, an 87 member parliamentary body of the five Nordic countries - Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland - is meeting in Helsinki late January, question marks remain on the future security policy solutions in the area.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to gain more votes from lower income class for the upcoming upper house election by vowing to address wage gaps in his policy speech on Friday.
The announcement of China's first official paper on its policy in the Arab region highlights the growing importance of bilateral interests, an Algerian expert said on Tuesday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Thursday that the recent dip in residential rent and property prices shows the government's efforts to increase housing supply over the past three years have been effective and there is no need to relax the cooling measures for now.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Wednesday that a free, quality kindergarten-education policy will be implemented from the 2017-18 school year.
China on Tuesday stopped requiring couples to apply for official approval before having a first or second child, following the abolition of the one-child policy.
Federal Minister for Planning Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal on Monday said that Pakistan would play a positive role to end ongoing tension between the brotherly Islamic countries Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Chinese lawmakers are considering amending the family planning law to advocate couples having two children amid efforts to counter shrinkage of the work force and ageing population.
South Korea's central bank on Thursday froze the benchmark interest rate at a record low of 1.5 percent, keeping a wait-and-see stance for six straight months.
The bank of Japan (BOJ) on Thursday decided to keep its current monetary policy, clinging to the judgment that the economy is "recovering moderately" despite recent data showing Japan has slipped into recession.
Myanmar will continue to adopt a friendly foreign policy with all countries including China and place more emphasis on relations with its neighbors, Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday.
China's sperm banks are already facing a dearth of donors, and a government proposal to end the country's decades-old one-child policy may put more pressure on the institutions.
China's plan to allow all couples have two children is positive for its growth despite not reversing a shrinking population, an economist told Xinhua here on Friday.
Australia's economy is progressing in its rebalancing from mining-led growth, aided by accommodative monetary policy, a stance that will be in place for some time to come, Australia's top banker said on Thursday.
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