China drives growth for KFC owner Yum BBC News The company that owns the KFC fast food chain has again reported solid growth figures fuelled by demand in China. | Yum! Brands has reported better-than-expected profits for the fourth quarter of 2011, jumping 30% from the same period last year. | Net income for the three months ending in December w...
Asian stocks rise after US unemployment falls Springfield News-Sun | BANGKOK — Asian stock markets climbed Monday after U.S. unemployment fell to its lowest in three years, suggesting a stronger recovery in the world's No. 1 economy that could benefit the region's exporters. | Benchmark oil remained above $97 per barrel while the dollar rose against the euro ...
China drives growth for KFC owner Yum BBC News The company that owns the KFC fast food chain has again reported solid growth figures fuelled by demand in China. | Yum! Brands has reported better-than-expected profits for the fourth quarter of 2011, jumping 30% from the same period last year. | Ne...
All the news fit to collect China Daily Yang Yanchao, a civil servant in Hebei province, holds a yellowed newspaper published in 1901, one of the more than 250,000 newspapers in his collection. Zhai Yujia / for China Daily | ...
Clear need to answer questions after pollution China Daily A villager checks stocks in his fish farm in Yizhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Wednesday. Cadmium leaked from a factory into the Longjiang River where his fish farm is located. Jiang Dong / China Daily | ...
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Syrian army 'steps up Homs offensive' Al Jazeera | The Syrian army has stepped up its attacks on opposition fighters in Homs, activists and witnesses have said, a day after a UN Security Council resolution aimed at endi...
China is the world’s top travel destinations The Examiner | Sahit Muja: China its the world’s top travel destinations Everyone is talking about China' economy, so why not talking about tourism. China has ...
Russia, China justify veto as criticisms mount Zeenews Moscow/Beijing: As their UN Security Council veto on Syria invited bitter criticism, both Russia and China shot back today contending that the half-baked resolution would have only...
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Chinese banks cut exposure to euro zone -paper The Guardian BEIJING, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Chinese banks and companies in the northern port city of Tianjin have cut their exposure to Europe as the euro zone debt crisis festers, the official Financial News reported on Tuesday. In a recent survey of 53 banks and 15 firms done by the local foreign exchange regulator, 11 banks said they had cut or stopped trade fin...
Obama administration closes US embassy in Damascus, pulls American diplomats out of Syria Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up pressure on President Bashar Assad to leave power. | Robert Ford, the American ambassador, and 17 other U.S. officials left Syria and were expected to travel back to the United ...
