Vacancies in Macao's gaming sector in the fourth quarter of 2010 soared nearly nine-fold over the same period of the previous year to 3,761.
Price satisfaction among Chinese consumers picked up in the first quarter of this year, and expectations of further inflation declined.
China Mobile Ltd, the world's biggest phone carrier by users, posted fourth-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as mobile Web users downloading music and videos lifted sales.
China trimmed its holdings of US debt in January, a move that underlines Beijing's strategy to diversify its foreign reserve portfolio to avoid risks, analysts said.
Chinese bankers were more confident of the economic outlook in China in the first quarter, indicated a central bank's survey released Wednesday.
Hong Kong's Commissioner of Insurance office announced on Tuesday that the total gross premium of the Hong Kong insurance industry was $207.2 billion ($26.59 billion) in 2010, representing an increase of 11.6 percent over 2009.
China's Entrepreneur Confidence Index(ECI) continued to rise in the first quarter of this year, up 2.1 percentage points from the fourth quarter 76.3 percent last year, according to a survey conducted by the People's Bank of China, or the central bank.
The preliminary estimate of the Macao Special Administrative Region's foreign exchange reserves amounted to 196.2 billion patacas ($24.44 billion) at the end of February 2011, according to the figures released by the Monetary Authority of Macao Tuesday.
In a span of five years, China increased its municipal wastewater treatment rate by 24 percentage points to 75 percent by the end of 2010, according to official data released Tuesday.
Internet game players in China exceeded 120 million in 2010, up 37 percent year on year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Culture.
The total assets of the fund managed by China's National Council for Social Security Fund (SSF) reached 856.8 billion yuan ($130.35 billion) by the end of 2010, up 10.32 percent year on year, an SSF official said Tuesday.
Total foreign holdings of US long-term securities in January reached $4.45 trillion, up $15.1 billion, or 0.2 percent from the previous month, but China trimmed its holdings for the third straight month, the US Treasury Department reported Tuesday.
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