The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China said Thursday that its after-tax profits for the first half of this year rose 29 percent year-on-year as the result of higher loans and fees.
The resignation of Silicon Valley icon Steve Jobs from the top managing post of Apple Inc. has got many in China questioning the mighty US technology firm's future.
A senior Chinese official calls for all macro control policies in force to be fully implemented as it will be difficult to fulfill the government's inflation control target.
China will continue to implement macro-control policies on its property sector, a senior official said Thursday.
Six people were killed after a fire engulfed a dessert shop on Thursday in south China's Guangdong Province, said local authorities.
Huawei, a leading information and communication technology solutions provider based in the southern city Shenzhen, ranked first among China's top 500 non-state owned firms in 2010
The PetroChina Co. Ltd., the country's largest oil producer, said on Thursday its net profits edged up 1 percent year-on-year in the first six months of the year to 66.01 billion yuan ($10.31 billion).
China said it has contributed greatly to the global fight against terrorism and urged the international community to fully respect its domestic concerns.
Chen Quanguo has been appointed secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) committee of the Tibet autonomous region,the CPC Central Committee announced Thursday.
Authorities in China and the United States jointly shut down a chain of membership-based, Chinese-language pornographic websites targeting Chinese-speaking audiences in China, the US and other countries.
The Chinese government spent 1.15 trillion yuan ($180 billion), or two thirds of the central budget, on improving people's livelihoods in the first half of the year, according to a government report submitted to China's top legislature on Thursday.
A severe drought in Southwest China has dried up hundreds of reservoirs and rivers, devastated farm fields and made drinking water scarce, local authorities said.
