A blue paper published on Tuesday shows the graduation and employment status of Chinese students in 2013. Last year, the number of graduate students reached a record high of nearly seven million. The initial employment rate for postgraduate students...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have discussed the South China Sea issue, among many other issues in a phone call. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Wang Yi urged Kerry to speak and ac...
Internal migration in China is affecting one out of every four children today. The government has been putting more care and support into this issue. In China, almost 70 million children are not living with both parents and many of them remain in rur...
A recent survey by one of China's largest pharmaceutical companies says about 15,000 tons of drugs expire every year. These products pose a threat to both human health and the environment if they're not disposed of properly. But so far, there is no s...
Some parts of China are dangerously short of water. A recent report confirms that the average per capita water availability in China is 2,000 100 cubic metres per year, just a quarter of the world average. Among the countrys 34 provinces, municipalit...
Chinese police have recommended prosecution for bribery by UK pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline. After a 10 month investigation, police found that William Mark Reilly, a British national and executive of GSK China, had ordered his subordinates to c...
The north China plain has always faced a shortage of water. As a result, people have been using underground water for a long time. But this continued use has severely depleted the water table, leading to a host of concerns. It is the sowing season. F...
Ireland is growing to be an attractive destination for investment by US multinationals. In recent years, many have set up European headquarters there. Now new laws introduced in Switzerland seem to be benefiting Ireland further - with a number of mul...
The consumer price index actually fell below the key 2-percent level, coming at 1.8-percent--it was also below expectations. The last time CPI was this low, was 18 months ago. Month-on-month, CPI declined 0.3% from March, after having already fallen...
Good news for China's online shoppers--a new player. US e-commerce firm ShopRunnber is getting help from Alibaba to grab a slice of the Chinese market. ShopRunner is one of Amazon.coms major rivals in the U.S. and it will use Alibabas logistics infra...
China is tightening its regulation over imported baby formula. The quality inspection body issued new rules--unregistered baby formula makers as of May 1st will be kept out of the Chinese market. Among the first batch of registered foreign companies,...
Growth in gold demand is shifting east, to Asias fast-growing economies. But key industry activities such as refining and clearing remain dominated by the west. Dubai wants to change that -- with plans to build one of the worlds largest gold refineri...
As Alibaba officially files for what is going to be the biggest tech IPO ever, the race is on for retail investors to make money from its listing. But as Cathy Yang reports, some of Hong Kongs more entrepreneurial retail investors have already begun...
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