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China's largest home appliances maker Haier announced Wednesday that it would take a 20 percent stake in New Zealand's Fisher & Paykel Appliances. Haier did not reveal how much it would invest in the New Zealand's white goods manufacturer for the stake, but Fisher & Paykel told the New Zealand Stock Exchange Wednesday that Haier would invest ab...
Standing beside a cashier's counter, with both hands full with goods she bought in Carrefour, Zhao Shaojuan realized that she forgot to bring a bag with her. Just a year before, all shopping malls, supermarkets and open markets in Beijing provided free plastic bags. The 66-year-old Zhao still finds it hard to adopt to taking a bag when shopping....
Prices of major building materials in China rose in April after months of decline, thanks to demand driven by the country's stimulus package, according to a statement on the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's website. The industrial output of building materials enterprises rose 14.4 percent to 163.3 billion yuan ($23.93 billion) in the fi...
A senior figure in Taiwan's main opposition party began a landmark visit to the mainland Thursday, declaring she was bringing a new voice. Chen Chu, mayor of Kaohsiung, the island's second-biggest city, is the highest-ranking official from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to set foot on the mainland. Chen's much-heralded visit will see her visi...
The Chinese government will finish an inspection of all the country's primary and secondary schools by the end of October, an official with the Education Ministry said Thursday. The goal is to find safety flaws in building construction, said Tian Zuyin, deputy director with the ministry's finance department in an interview posted on www.gov.cn , the ce...
A quarter of the nation's 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) economic stimulus package is going toward reconstruction in quake-devastated Sichuan province, the government said Thursday in an outline of how the program is being implemented. The report by the National Development and Reform Commission was the first detailed outline of how the government intend...
The Foreign Ministry Thursday poured cold water on reports that claimed China had suggested to the US that the two nations divide the Pacific Ocean between them. US Pacific Command chief Admiral Timothy Keating was quoted last Friday by Indian media as saying a high-ranked Chinese military officer had suggested a pact between the countries that called for...
When Sun Weisi returned home from the United States on Tuesday, she thought the temperature check at the airport and the health declaration form she submitted there were all that were needed as a precaution against H1N1 flu. But the phone rang the next morning, and the voice at the other end suggested she begin a seven-day medical observation at home. T...
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