2008-10-07 Hong Kong ready to ease local banks' liquidity crunch: HKMA chief

    HONG KONG, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Monetary Authority ( HKMA) may consider further measures to enhance the citys ability to cope with turbulent liquidity conditions if necess...

2008-10-07 Hong Kong's retail sales value grows 10.4 pct in August

    HONG KONG, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong posted modest growth in retail sales in August with the total value up 10.4 percent to 22.8 billion HK dollars (2.92 billion U.S. dollars) ...

2008-10-07 Hong Kong stocks rebound from early losses

    HONG KONG, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Boosted by the U.S. Senate's approval of the rescue package for the U.S. financial sector, Hong Kong stocks rebounded from early losses to close 1.08...

2008-10-07 China balances growth and inflation

    By Xinhua writer Wu Qi     BEIJING, Oct.2 (Xinhua) -- Seeing fully loaded trucks drive steadily away from the warehouse, Cheng Yongchang uttered a long sigh of re...

2008-10-07 China's new regulations on foreign investment in advertising firms takes effect

    BEIJING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's newly-revised *istrative regulations on foreign investment in advertising enterprises came into effect on Wednesday.     The reg...

2008-10-07 Missing foreign sailors in East China Sea feared dead

    WENZHOU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Five foreign sailors who have been missing since their vessel sank on Monday in the East China Sea off the eastern Zhejiang Province were feared dead, ...

2008-10-07 Township officials killed in NE China traffic collision

    HARBIN, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Three township officials died and another two were injured on Sunday in an expressway crash in northeast China.     A car carrying the ...

2008-10-07 Six more detained amid tainted milk scandal

    HOHHOT, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have detained six more suspects involved in the contaminated milk scandal that had caused deaths and kidney stones of babies.  &nb...

2008-10-07 China central gov't to subsidize dairy farmers after tainted milk scandal

    BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture said Saturday it had made an emergency rescue plan with the Ministry of Finance to give special subsidies to the countr...

2008-10-07 President Hu hails institute for churning out Tibetan cadres, specialists

    XIANYANG, Shaanxi, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao has written to the Tibet Nationalities Institute (TNI) to celebrate its 50th founding anniversary, which was the first inst...