James Bond - who often checks into a premium hotel spa for a massage after trouncing yet another super villain - might not have been surprised by the Banyan Tree Tianjin, but I was. Arriving at my room, I found an elegant folder on the bed with a "bath menu".
The Tianjin Oceanic Administration recently approved the research on water level maintenance technology and management carried out by the Facilities Center of Tianjin Port.
China's privately owned companies are following their State-owned and sovereign wealth fund counterparts in overseas direct investment in Europe.
After days of lingering smog, the Beijing municipal government has for the first time issued an orange alert for heavy air pollution, initiating an emergency response.
In 2013, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area ranked first citywide in terms of total companies that were granted the status of "little tech giants", and it also had the most newly added such enterprises.