Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...
Tongtai continues to build sales of aircraft-making machine tools. (Pictured is group chairman, R.X. Yen)The Tongtai Group of Taiwan estimates machine tools for making aircraft parts to rise to account for 10 percent of its revenue by 2016, ...
Tags: Tongtai, aircraft parts, Manufacturing
The Chinese government's leading think-tank has released a new study downplaying concerns about the level of debt being held by local governments, suggesting that more spending needs to take place to cope with social issues. On the heels ...
Tags: People's Livelihoods
China has provided more than 140 billion yuan (21.6 billion U.S.dollars) to low-income residents over the past 11 months, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) on Monday. China has some 66.5 million people, five percent of its ...
In the Chinese government's ongoing fight to try to clean up this country's air, a new focus is being being put on small-scale companies in an effort to get them onboard with reducing emissions. Over the past few years, the central ...
Tags: Local Enterprises, Green
A growing number of people in Hong Kong's music industry are said to be looking for ways to change their business model, in an attempt to make the once-booming industry flourish again in the city. Hong Kong's music scene saw its golden ...
Tags: Music Industry, Business Model
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015 opened in Budapest on Monday with keynote addresses by ITU Secretary-General Zhao Houlin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zhao underlined that small and ...
Tags: ITU, Telecom World
The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
Tags: Sex Slavery Deal
China and Finland have set up a fund that will pool money from Chinese and Finnish enterprises to invest in innovative startups and joint tech projects. The 40-million-euro fund, agreed at a forum in Beijing technology hub Zhongguancun on ...
Tags: Tech Fund
Young Masamba Issa has just clocked 13 years. The girl who almost lost her battle against malaria in 2008, is now a healthy five feet two inches tall form two student at Boko secondary school in Dar es Salaam. "I had given up when medical ...
Tags: Anti-Malaria Drug, Tanzania
A vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese scientists has undergone clinical trials in Sierra Leone. The public relations officer at the Ministry of Health Abbas Kamara says there have been no "adverse reports and side ...
Tags: Ebola Vaccine, Clinical Trials
n years past, a smog-shrouded Beijing was accepted as a fact of life in the big city. But increasingly, people are taking notice. Companies now are focusing on using the internet, smart devices and big data to help the Chinese make ...
Tags: Smart Device, Air
It's being reported Hon Hai Precision Industry, aka Foxconn, may be prepared to spend around 2.5 billion U.S. dollars to acquire Sharp Electronics. The proposed price is said to be about 50 percent higher than Sharp's current market ...
China is set to stop construction of public rental houses and renovate 6 million run-down urban houses in 2016. The program is a crucial way of providing low-income urban residents with affordable housing. Minister of Housing and ...
Tags: Renovate, Run-down Houses
The first Briton on board the International Space Station, Tim Peake, has been giving his initial impressions of space during a news conference. He arrived on the space station just three days ago with two other astronauts, one from Russia ...