The total transaction volume of China's e-commerce market surged 43% from a year earlier to RMB 3.1 trillion in 2008, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday, citing an official with China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC).Nie Linhai, vice director-general of the Department of Information Technology under the...
China Resources SZITIC Trust Co Ltd, formerly known as Shenzhen International Trust & Investment Co Ltd, posted a net profit of RMB 823 million for last year, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Wednesday.In 2008, the company's trust revenue surged 40% to RMB 200 million, while trust profit was...
CITIC Pacific<267>, principally engaged in special steel manufacturing and iron ore mining, recorded net loss of HK$12.66 billion in 2008, versus a net profit of HK$10.84 billion in 2007, sources reported.The Hong Kong-listed company lost HK$14.63 billion on a number of foreign exchange contracts last year...
To be sure, the economy was stalling early in 2008, but few could have predicted the impact of the summer's sky-high energy prices, the catastrophic credit crisis or the far-reaching implications of the burst of the housing bubble.
GM will close two SUV plants by end of 2008
The second phase of the construction project of the National Library of China (NLC), a new library, was opened to the public on September 9. Covering an area of 80,538 square meters, the new library can sit 2,900 readers and accept 8,000 visitors a day. The new addition makes the total construction area of the NLC 250,000 square meters, ranking third in the world. Designed by a German architectural firm, the modern library is the largest collection base for Chinese documents in the world.
NANJING, Nov 12 - Cobalt supply in China is expected to rise more than 20 percent to 18,093 tonnes this year, due to higher cobalt ore imports to meet expanded production capacity, an analyst from...
Retail industry in India has come a long way through several highs and lows but now it is time for a common man to witness the boom in food retail sector in India...
JAKARTA, Nov 3 - Indonesian rice production is expected to increase by 5.5 percent to 60.28 million tonnes of unmilled grain this year, the state statistics bureau said on Monday. The figure compares with a...
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