Chinese conglomerate Fosun zeroed in on its 18-month quest to buy French holiday resorts group Club Med on Friday when Italian businessman Andrea Bonomi refused to raise his latest offer.
For one of the biggest of big-shot writers, who has sold 275 million books worldwide, stormed the Hollywood box office in the 1990s and - even in the relative twilight of a 25-year career - still earns ��10 million a year from his work, John Grisham is something of a surprise.
E-bookseller Kobo has released new data that reveals which books their British customers were most and least likely to complete in 2014. And it is not good news for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt.
They may be farmers, doctors, bankers, teachers, but once their hair has gone grey 20 years from now, their common denominator will be "consumer" in the world's largest and fastest growing consumption market
Domestic and overseas travel have seen a sharp boost in the past decade, as groups of freshly retired Chinese senior citizens with abundant time and financial support enter the country's tourism market.
In a restaurant newly opened in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan province, four robots are busy waiting tables.
The ARJ21, China's first domestic commercial regional aircraft, was certified by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on Tuesday, six years after the aircraft's first test flight.
The richest people on Earth got richer in 2014, adding $92 billion to their collective fortune in the face of falling energy prices and geopolitical turmoil.
The government of Chizhou in Anhui province signed an agreement on Monday with Shenzhen Water Group Co to give the company control of the city's sewage treatment plants and its sewer system - a deal which marks a significant shift in how the city's public utilities might be run in the future.
Xiaomi Corp is working on a water purifier as it expands its range of home products that can be controlled through the Internet, according to an early investor in the company.
China will relax restrictions on banks' yuan trading from next year, in a small but significant move toward relaxing its capital controls.
The government will give subsidies for new energy "green" vehicles until 2020, according to draft rules published on Tuesday, extending the current incentive scheme, which expires at the end of 2015.
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