 Asian hoteliers see room to grow stronger 2011-12-28
Asian hotel chains are spreading their wings and, slowly but steadily, expanding globally. |
Alibaba opens the doors to its group-buying platform 2011-12-29
HANGZHOU / BEIJING - The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced on Wednesday that its group-buying site will serve as an open platform for other sites to sell their goods. |
Sinochem targets 'green development' as future strategy 2011-12-23
Sinochem Group has identified "green development" as a key strategic focus to achieve economic benefits and shoulder more social responsibility. |
Labor shortage eases in East China 2011-12-23
Labor shortage, which usually slams thousands of Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises by the end of the year, is easing in east China. |
Yahoo mulls selling most of Alibaba stake 2011-12-23
Yahoo! Inc is considering cutting its 40 percent stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to about 15 percent, two people briefed on the matter said. |
Hangzhou's traditional health cures still in vogue today 2011-12-22
More than 100 years after its founding, a traditional pharmacy still benefits people in the scenic city of Hangzhou as its principles are passed down and remain in vogue among Chinese people. |
Korea Life to establish JV in China 2011-12-21
Korea Life Insurance, South Korea's No 2 life insurer, said Wednesday that it planned to establish a joint venture in China in a bid to make inroads into the world's second-largest economy. |
Property sales see further declines in East China 2011-12-21
Commercial property sales in booming Zhejiang province has seen further declines as the property sector continues to cool off with no signs of immediate loosening of tightening measures. |
E-commerce giant launches reward points platform 2011-12-20
Jifen Bao, a reward points service based in Nanjing, will enable clients to redeem points to make small purchases on Alibaba's e-commerce subsidiaries, such as Taobao, and to pay utility bills, company officials said Tuesday. |
Taobao: attackers are illegal merchandisers 2011-12-20
Taobao.com, China's largest online trade platform, has accused those protesting the platform of being illegal merchandisers that had been punished by the platform, a spokesman for the platform said at a press conference on Monday afternoon in east China's Zhejiang province. |
Alibaba spins off reward points service 2011-12-20
Alipay, China's leading third-party online payment platform and a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group, has spinned off its reward points service as a wholly-owned subsidiary to tap the country's booming e-commerce market. |
Mercedes leads luxury-car discounts 2011-12-19
Mercedes-Benz and BMW (BMW) dealers deepened their discounts on some models in China last month as slowing property and stock markets weighed on premium-car purchases, according to a research firm. |
Tmall recruits volunteers to fight fake products 2011-12-17
China's largest business-to-consumer (B2C) platform, Tmall (tmall.com), has recruited volunteer buyers to help with its campaign to eliminate fake products sold by users of the website. |
Exports push equities to 1% slide 2011-12-13
Stocks on the Chinese mainland fell to the lowest level in more than two years. |
Fake paper bags in high demand 2011-12-12
Fake paper shopping bags featuring famous brands are selling well on websites, but most are imitations. |
China shapes global luxury landscape 2011-12-10
China has become a key source of growth for the world's luxury market. |
Champions: Top drivers and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2011-12-08
Underway for three months in 24 cities across China, a competition to test driving skills using the Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan has drawn to a close in Sanya on Hainan Island. |
Taobao blocks tainted-formula searches 2011-12-08
BEIJING - China's biggest online shopping website, Taobao, has blocked Meiji baby formula from its search results since Meiji Dairies Corp of Japan announced on Tuesday that radioactive cesium was found in the product. |
It's conference season for hotels 2011-12-06
BEIJING - The year's end is always a busy season for various conferences, meetings and parties by businesses and institutions, and this year will be no exception. |
Shanghai VW's new car factory to be located in Zhejiang 2011-12-05
Shanghai VW's sixth passenger car production site will be located in Zhejiang's seaport city of Ningbo. The new site will boast a yearly production capability of 300,000 vehicles. |
