The central government will set up a dedicated fund to aid 1,000 Hong Kong University (HKU) teachers and students to visit the mainland every year, starting in 2012, visiting Vice Premier Li Keqiang said during…
Category: Regions
About 1,996 sets of low-income housing, built on land previously occupied by the Guangzhou Nitrogenous Fertilizer Factory, went on sale on Tuesday. The location was highlighted in 2008 for being given a notoriously high rating…
It was a steamy summer’s night and the wannabe DJs had spun their last disk, while those with day jobs had been in bed for hours. The creaking noise and verbal ode to joy started…
Guests gathered at the end of the opening ceremony. Photo: Global Times A non-profit campaign sponsored by the Global Times and Sina.com kicked off Thursday in Beijing to nominate the top ten frontier cities or…
A central bank official Thursday denied large-scale shutdowns of China’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and said bank lending to such businesses has increased since the beginning of this year. Recent media reports of a…
The Ministry of Railways (MOR) issued 15 billion yuan ($2.35 billion) of super short-term commercial papers Thursday, after a similar issue of 20 billion yuan on August 8. The rate of the 90-day commercial papers…
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it was in talks with its peers in Shanghai and Shenzhen to set up a joint venture for equity derivatives and index compilations, a move that would represent…
US Vice President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up during a chat with a patron at a restaurant during lunch in Beijing Thursday. Biden’s meal cost 79 yuan ($12.36) for five people. Photo: AFP US…
GUANGZHOU – Cheng Dongwei looked disappointed when his mother once again told him on QQ chat: “No, you can’t go out until I get home this evening.” A minute before, the 11-year-old boy had used…
Dozens of reporters surround Wang Yongping, former spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, after a press conference on July 24, a day after a deadly train crash in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Photo: CFP It’s been…