Japan’s Miki Ando outscored South Korea’s Olympic champion Kim Yuna, winning the ladies skating gold medal Saturday in the 2011 Figure Skating World Championships here. With a perfect combination of triple lutz and double loop,…
Category: Asia
The world’s poor face daunting realities amid worldwide food price spikes, which threaten local economies in the short term and impede long term economic development, an economist with the World Bank has told Xinhua. In…
The Japanese earthquake will impact Asia in terms of international trade, foreign direct investment and supply chains, Gerald Lyons said lately at Asia House in London. “Small and open economies in Asia are incredibly volatile…
On April 22, China issued a white paper presenting an overall picture of its foreign aid activities over the past few decades. This is the first time China has issued a White Paper on Foreign…
Former premier Zhu Rongji made a rare public appearance yesterday, delivering a scathing criticism of the mainland’s education system and other policies during a visit to his alma mater, Tsinghua University. Zhu (pictured) lashed out…
Selling produce at a loss is best desperate vegetable growers can hope for, Duan Yan in Shandong province and Hu Yongqi in Beijing report. Last year was better for Xu Yuguang, a Shandong farmer. The…
Foreign investors in China will have more room to operate and potential for higher profits as China’s economy continues to develop, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in Beijing on Tuesday. Hong’s remark came in…
The Chinese government announced Tuesday that it has launched an emergency program to protect farmers from produce price slumps and stabilize the produce market. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a statement on its…
China’s chief negotiator to UN climate change talks said here on Tuesday that the country is drafting a special law dedicated to climate change and will explore a low carbon development path suitable to China….
The fertile fields of this corner of eastern China are an unlikely microcosm of the national economy. There is not a power plant or factory in sight. Yet the area encapsulates as well as any…