Wuhai, China News

As spring warms the sands of the Gobi desert in China's vast Inner Mongolia region, it's not just the local camels who are happy to see the end of a long, cold winter.

Freezer manufacturer KEPCM said it has signed a large-scale export sales contract with a Chinese energy corporation, paving the way for a deal worth an estimated $200 million during the next five years.

Over the past 20 years, more than 100,000 antique items originally held in China have returned to the country after being bought at auction, Zhang Yanhua, chief of China Association of Auctioneers, said Thursday.

HONG KONG Premier Wen Jiabao is calling for Chinese economic policies to tilt a little more toward fostering growth, official media reported on Monday, in the latest sign of concern in China about a faltering in the country's economic expansion.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's pledge to focus more on bolstering growth spurred speculation Monday that the government will step up efforts to combat a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.

Copper advanced for a second day as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the government will focus more on bolstering economic growth, boosting demand from the world's biggest consumer of industrial metals.

Premier Wen Jiabao, an alumnus of the China University of Geosciences, chats with students at the university in Wuhan on Saturday.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the government will focus more on bolstering economic growth, indicating policies may be loosened further as inflation moderates.

With China remaining firmly on track to become the world's largest market for luxury goods, high-end brands are increasingly looking for ways and means to reach this massive, label-hungry consumer base.

SINGAPORE: PUB, Singapore's national water agency, has helped develop a new automated system which uses fish to monitor water quality.

Lou Ye has marked himself out as a film-maker who is ready to put sex on screen in a way few or none of his fellow Chinese film-makers are willing or able to do.

Two high-end golf courses, more than 70 upscale homes, an expanded wine operation and a steady flow of job-creation could all be the result of planned improvements to Eagle Point Winery if its new owner's vision bears fruit.

Photo taken on Nov. 13, 2011 shows a scene of the Peking Opera "Notre Dame" at the Luojiashan Theater in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.

Chinese technology company Lenovo has signed an agreement with the municipal government of Wuhan and announced the founding of its new industrial base in the city.

The Bohai Sea Rim is home to headquarters of many large enterprises and key institutions of higher learning, where domestic scientific & technological innovation resources are highly concentrated; with a well-developed manufacturing industry, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta are important R&D and production bases for new materials, ... (more)

Residents of Wuhan are divided over a proposal by the city government to ban eating or taking pets on its first subway, which is scheduled to open by the end of the year.

SINGAPORE: Lenovo Group, which recently surpassed Dell as the world's second biggest PC maker behind Hewlett-Packard, has embarked on a plan to target developed markets such as Europe and the United States, despite lackluster economic growth in those regions.

Major Chinese PC maker Lenovo will invest $800 million to build new facilities in an effort to better compete in the tablet, smartphone and overall mobile device market.

Injection molder and metals fabricator Eva Precision Industrial Holdings Ltd. is building a large factory complex in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to target China's domestic auto market.

Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker by sales, said on Monday that it will invest about 5 billion yuan over the next five years in an integrated mobile devices facility in China to meet rising global demand for smartphones and tablet computers.