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Shenzhen Development Bank aims to gain regulatory approval for an investment by a unit of General Electric in the lender sometime this year, its chairman said in comments published...

The photo shows the Humble Administrator's Garden, located in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, was filled with about 30,000 pots of azalea March 21, 2006. The garden will for...

The government's plan to make significant changes to the consumption tax from April 1 will have little impact on the country's overall tax revenue and consumer prices, economists s...

3,000-year-old mummy, an ancient statue of Dionysos and a 2,100-year-old gold and pendant featuring Aphrodite and Eros will be the featured guests at the Capital Museum in Beijing...

Xi'an, a well-known historical city in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is seeking capital for a new round of repairing construction in association with the Mausoleum of Huangdi...

After three billion yuan (US$375 million) of investment last year, Beijing will spend another 2.8 billion yuan (US$350 million) in 2006 to increase the number of environment-friend...

The Indonesian government has granted visa-on-arrival facility for Swedish visitors to increase tourist visits from the European country, an official said here Wednesday. "...

Residential property developer China Vanke Co. said yesterday its net profit for 2005 jumped to 1.35 billion yuan (US$166.67 million) despite the government's efforts to rein in th...

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ltd. (ICBC), the nation's biggest bank, has said it will impose fees on savings accounts which have a balance of under 300 yuan (37.5 U.S....

In a long expected move, China's social security fund has finally cleared all the hurdles necessary to allow it to invest overseas. The National Council for the Social Sec...

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore and Transport for London (TfL) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation Tuesday, aiming to share experiences in the field of transport sys...

The photo taken on March 20, 2006 shows beautiful spring scenery in Suzhou, a city of east China's Jiangsu Province. Plants in Suzhou have pullulated as spring fell....

Chinese insurance companies are now allowed to invest their cash in another place under new rules released yesterday. The pilot regulation, drafted by the China Insurance ...

-- Wu Xiaoling, a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, said she was in the dark about a report that the government is about to ease controls on capital outflows by giving...

The Bank of Communications (BoCom), China's fifth largest lender, had the best financial performance last year among 13 domestic nationwide commercial banks. On Monday the ...

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) started a program called "My Hong Kong Family" on Sunday in an attempt to promote the city as the ultimate family destination, not just for leis...

The 2006 Guiding Golden Sea and Snowy Mountain Tourist Festival opened in Guiding County in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Saturday, fascinating tourists with a broad landsc...

Statistics from the Municipal Tourism Bureau show that Beijing has seen about 338,000 foreign tourists in the first two months of this year, up 15 percent on last year. Sa...

Photo taken on March 17, 2006 shows the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. The half-man half-lion statue is to get a facelift according to the Egyptian ministry of cult...

People from China's Taiwan province show an increasing interest in traveling to the Three Gorges, as over 100 tourism workers and residents from the province began an eight-day to...

A 71-member delegation of Japanese tourism developers will visit southwest China's Guizhou Province from March 17 to 22, said the province's tourism administration on Thursday. ...

The photo dated March 15, 2006 shows a contingency communication truck, set for the upcoming aerial acrobatics performance given by Russia's air force, at the Hehua (water lily) Ai...

The general aviation industry is set to spread its wings rapidly with the rising use of small aircraft and a boost from the authorities. Apart from airlines' scheduled flig...

China and New Zealand have made further progress toward establishing a free trade area during the latest round of negotiations held here between March 7-10, the Chinese Ministry of...

Canadian company Husky Energy will drill an oil well at a water depth of 1,500 meters in the South China Sea at the end of April, reported sources with Husky on Tuesday. Th...

The China Eastern Airlines, one of the country's biggest airlines, has become the first partner of the Shanghai World Expo, it was announced here Tuesday. The partnership ...

On Tuesday China Comfort Travel Co. Ltd. becomes the first travel agency in the Chinese mainland to visit Taipei, where the company's administration will discuss prospects for faci...

The reform of China's state-owned commercial banks must ensure that the state takes a dominant share to control the economic lifeline and guard against financial risks, said Chines...

A consortium including Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) plans to apply this month for regulatory approval to launch a Chinese funds management joint venture, sources familiar with the m...

After vitalizing Shenzhen and Shanghai's Pudong, China will build a third economic powerhouse in its coastal areas in the north, which trailed behind the south and east in the coun...