The OECD economy is recovering
2009-11-26 16:12:37
Growth in the OECD area has resumed after the most virulent recession in decades. The recovery is driven by exceptionally strong demand-supporting policy measures, public interventions in financial markets, a strong pick-up in demand in the non-OECD area and a positive contribution from inventory adjustment.
World Bank: China's economy continues to grow robustly.
2009-11-26 16:12:24
Large fiscal and monetary stimulus has supported a recovery in China’s economy.Growth is likely to remain robust in 2010, but the composition will change.
Recovery still too timid to halt rising unemployment
2009-11-26 15:05:43
The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.
Will someone solve driver Hu's riddle, please?
2009-07-23 07:49:08
It's difficult to predict what direction public opinion on the Internet will take when the issue is highly controversial; in this case a rich brat running over an innocent pedestrian in Hangzhou and the subsequent court verdict.
A death and the disturbing facts behind it
2009-07-30 07:48:38
Workers of State-owned Tong-hua Iron and Steel Group lynched Chen Guojun, an executive of the group sent by private steel company Jianlong, in Jilin province on Friday. The workers, many of whom hold shares in the State-owned enterprise (SOE), feared that the takeover by Jianlong could either cost them their jobs or force them to take a pay cut despite the company's profit of 42.7 million yuan ($6.2 million) in June.
Chronicle of two deaths retold as a message
2009-07-16 07:50:46
It's tragic to see two luminous stars of the academic world stop shining on the same day over the weekend. Surprisingly, the mourning and eulogies for Ji Xianlin and Ren Jiyu were not restricted to the academic circle.
