The local tin market ended lower Friday in Kuala Lumpur, and the trading volume declined compared with Thursday. Tin price on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market decreased 300 U.S. dollars to close at 22,900 U.S. dollars per ton. However, turnover declined to 85 tons from 90 tons on Thursday. Source: CRIEnglish ...
Hong Kong's building units sales remained robust in the first half of 2008 from a year earlier but dipped on the second half of 2007, revealed the Land Registry's latest statistics on Friday. The amount of consideration involved in all types of building units sales agreements totaled 288.73 billion HK dollars (70.02 billion U.S. dollars), up 35.1 perc...
Soaring fuel costs may prevent Shanghai Airlines from achieving its earnings target of 200 million yuan (US$29 million) this year, a senior company official said Friday. Jet fuel prices have surged to 8,200 yuan per ton, compared with 3,000 yuan in 2005, and raised costs by an extra 400 million yuan, so it is hard to realize our target, Fan Hongxi, pr...
Auto giant General Motors Corp. will speed decision on bringing the next-generation Chevrolet Beat mini car, a vehicle it sells overseas, to the U.S. market in the 2012 timeframe, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Such a move would increase the stakes on GM's bet the U.S. market is undergoing historic change. GM's U.S. sales were down ...
Foreign investment from China into the UK grew by 13% during in the last financial year, making China the 9th top investment source globally, said a report released Friday by UK Trade and Investment, the UK Government's international business development organisation. Chinese companies invested in 59 projects in the UK in 2007-2008, up from 52 the yea...
According to reports, from January to May this year, Shanghai approved 1,471 foreign investment projects; among which 1,320 were foreign-owned and occupy 89.7 percent of the total. According to statistics from the Foreign Investment Working Commission of Shanghai Municipality, from January to May, Shanghai absorbed 6.87 billion U.S. dollars in contract...
Elizabeth Arden is seeking partners to manufacture products in China in a bid to become one of the top five cosmetics brands in the country within the next two or three years. Manufacturing locally can bring us specific technology suited for Asian skins, and it's not just about saving costs, said Jacques Steffens, executive vice president and general ...
Russia’s natural gas exports rose 23.5% on the year to 88.798 billion cubic meters in January-June, TsDU-TEK, which provides data and analysis to the Industry and Trade Ministry, said in a report obtained by Prime-Tass Wednesday. In June, gas exports were at 13.362 billion cubic meters, TsDU-TEK said without providing a comparison. In June, natural ...
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