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Music with the Telegraph

Land market at 5-year high

[2013-07-01 08:02]

China's land market sizzled in May, with the land transfer fees in the country's 10 key cities reaching a record high since 2008, industry statistics showed, indicating pressure for further home price hikes in the market.

Venezuela's weaker bolivar hits global firms

[2013-07-01 08:02]

US companies from Procter & Gamble Co to Pfizer Inc are facing a hit on their earnings as Venezuela's government limits access to dollars and the currency fell further.

Unfruitful time for BlackBerry

[2013-07-01 08:02]

BlackBerry's shares tumbled the most since 2000 after the company reported a surprise loss and weak sales of a new touch-screen model, underscoring its challenges in competing directly with the iPhone and Android devices.

Market Roundup

[2013-07-01 08:02]

Smaller concerts proved to be a big hit

[2013-07-01 08:02]

Music market is diversifying as it attracts more sophisticated, dedicated audiences

Musicals singing all the way to the bank as popularity soars

[2013-07-01 08:02]

Always a blockbuster, The Phantom of the Opera in Shanghai sold 5,000 tickets in May within just five hours to theatre-goers who got up as early as midnight to line up for a seat for the show to be staged in five months.

Location services in infancy but promising

[2013-07-01 08:02]

As early as November, Kangping, the most northerly county of China's Liaoning province, embraces its first snow of the year. The temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius and may even fall to minus 30 later.

New war of words as Zhou enters market

[2013-07-01 08:02]

Chief threatens to machinegun rival's rotund penguin mascot

Massive debt plagues local gov't

[2013-07-01 08:02]

How much have China's local governments borrowed? The answer has always been shrouded in mystery.

City investment bonds 'should be allowed to default'

[2013-07-01 08:02]

China's local authorities should allow regional defaults on their city investment bonds to cool down the enthusiasm of investors and ease the mounting risks, an expert with a top government think-tank said.

Likonomics: the way ahead

[2013-07-01 08:02]

From China's turbulent capital market last week, the most significant thing to watch is the rise of Likonomics (which China Daily first reported as Li-economics), a word coined by Barclays Capital during the turbulent past week, to describe China's economic scenario likely to be pursued by the cabinet led by Premier Li Keqiang.