China's local governments are introducing new policies to rein in soaring housing prices by preventing property speculation.
Uber is making a broad international push into meal delivery, with fresh hiring and aggressive marketing as it prepares to take on local rivals in dozens of countries.
City forced to find novel way to auction off plots as developers engage in bidding war
More cities in China are expected to introduce restrictive measures to dampen speculative buying and curb soaring property prices, according to analysts.
China's property sector saw growth accelerate in August, official data showed Monday, as more local governments rolled out tightening measures to curb speculation.
The latest data on China's property market reveals symptoms that will need more than deleveraging measures, analysts said.
An annual city forum between Shanghai and Taipei was held at the Regent Taipei Hotel on Tuesday.
Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, has been named the world's most liveable city for a record sixth consecutive year.
Climate change risks ruling out 90 percent of northern hemisphere cities as hosts of the Summer Olympics by the end of the century, a New Zealand researcher said Friday.
Property prices in China's upper-tier cities continued to surge while the overall growth momentum has decelerated, according to statistics released Monday.
The recovery in China's property market helped support the economy in the first half, but diverse market situations in different parts of the country are making life difficult for policy makers.
Five years ago, Du Juan, a native of Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, was wondering where to go for work after she graduated from Michigan State University.
China wrestles with the dual challenges of water scarcity and urban flooding -- problems that have been magnified by this summer's heavy rainfall.
Ride-hailing firm Uber is looking to expand further into China's lower-tier cities, where business has been growing faster than in top-tier cities, CEO Travis Kalanick has said.
Hong Kong has overtaken Luanda, Angola, to become the costliest city in the world for expats, according to an annual survey released by Mercer on Wednesday.
Havana on Tuesday was officially inaugurated as one of the world's seven wonder cities by the Swiss foundation New7Wonders.
After the outbreak of the water contamination crisis in the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, more U.S. cities have been exposed to have similar problems, according to an investigation by The Guardian newspaper.
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