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  • Hong Kong's inward DI up 14.8%

    2010-12-10 10:32

    Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department Thursday announced that the stock of the city's inward direct investment (DI) in 2009 increased by 14.8 percent from a year earlier to HK$7,262.1 billion ($934 billion) at market value.

  • Nov property prices continue to rise

    2010-12-10 10:05

    Property prices in 70 major Chinese cities rose 0.3 percent in November month-on-month and 7.7 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday.

  • China's farm produce and materials prices continued to fall

    2010-12-10 10:17

    China's top economic planner said Thursday that prices for agricultural produce and materials continued to fall from Nov 29 to Dec 5, with some varieties seeing big drops.

  • China's old-for-new subsidy scheme fuels 112b yuan sales

    2010-12-10 10:03

    China's home appliance replacement program has been an incentive for consumers to spend 112.69 billion yuan ($16.9 billion) since it was launched in June 2009, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.

  • HK's total receipts from trade, services down 6.2% in 2009

    2010-12-10 09:33

    Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department announced Thursday that the total receipts (comprising sales and other receipts) of the import and export, wholesale and retail trades, accommodation and food services sectors amounted to HK$3,505.4 billion in 2009, down 6.2 percent year-on-year.

  • China puts more grain reserve on market

    2010-12-09 17:32

    China's State grain reserve released 8.6 million tons of grain on to the market from Nov 29 to Dec 3 to ensure market supply and stabilize prices, said the country's top economic planner Thursday.

  • 5.8m subsidized housing under construction in '10

    2010-12-08 15:53

    China fulfilled its goal to begin construction of 5.8 million government-subsidized apartments in 2010,,according to a story by Xinhua News Agency.

  • China ups holding of Japanese debt

    2010-12-08 11:07

    China bought a net 262.5 billion yen ($3.1 billion) of Japanese bonds in October, the first time in three months the nation increased holdings of yen-denominated assets, Bloomberg reported on Dec 8.

  • HK's port cargo throughput up 5% in Q3

    2010-12-08 10:11

    Hong Kong's total port cargo throughput rose to 67.8 million tons in the third quarter, up 5 percent over a year earlier, the city's Census and Statistics Department announced Tuesday.

  • China's rural home appliance subsidy drives sales up 180%

    2010-12-07 10:23

    China's stimulus program for home appliance purchases in rural areas continued to boost sales in the first 11 months, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Monday.

  • China's lottery raises $25b for public welfare in 23 yrs

    2010-12-07 10:04

    China's government-run welfare lottery has raised a total of 164.5 billion yuan ($24.8 billion) for public welfare funds over the last 23 years, the WLDMC announced Monday.

  • China triples holding of S Korean government bonds

    2010-12-06 17:22

    China's holdings of South Korean government bonds more than tripled to 6.14 trillion won ($5.4 billion) as of Nov 30, up from 1.87 trillion won at the end of 2009.

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