A total of 22 Myanmar surviving sailors from a sunk Russian fishing trawler returned home by air on Sunday from Russia via South Korea, official media reported on Monday.
China had 7.85 million small and micro-sized enterprises as of the end of 2013 in the industrial and tertiary sectors, accounting for 95.6 percent of the total, official data showed on Tuesday.
"Interstellar" continued to lead China's box office by taking 144 million yuan (23.4 million U.S. dollars) in the week ending Nov. 30.
"Interstellar" took 258 million yuan (42.04 million U.S. dollars) in China in the week ending Nov. 23, grossing a total of 527.5 million yuan and making it director Christopher Nolan's biggest grosser in the world's second-largest film market.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam's agricultural sector witnessed a sharp decline in the past 15 years and is on its downtrend, according to figures from the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
The largest solar array in the Pacific has been completed in Samoa, helping to break the region's dependence on costly imported fossil fuels, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced Monday.
A written confession by Japanese war criminal Ryusuke Sako made public on Sunday revealed the persecution of thousands of Chinese including underground anti-Japanese operators during World War II.
The average occupancy rate of Macao' s hotels reached 87.9 percent in November 2013, with four-star hotels leading at 90.8 percent, according to figures released by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) on Tuesday.
The island city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province has started building its first subway line, local authorities announced Wednesday.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has finished a draft to promote mergers and acquisitions of infant formula companies. According to the draft, the ministry will foster the growth of large dairy companies over the next five years and aim to cultivate three to five companies each with an annual sales revenue exceeding 806 million U.S. dollars by the end of 2018.
The total retail sales value in May, provisionally estimated at 40.6 billion HK dollars, rose 12.8 percent over a year earlier, Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department said Tuesday.
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