At a glance

The small circuit: Sunrise at Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom South Gate, Baylon, Baopuon, Royal Palace, Elephants Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Thommanon, Spean Thma, Ta Keo, Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.

Duties on rare earth exports to be ended

Move expected to stimulate shipments of minerals crucial to the technology sector

Mercedes-Benz fined $56.5m for price fixing

Mercedes-Benz, a division of the German automobile manufacturer Daimler AG has been fined 350 million yuan ($56.5 million) for price fixing, the Jiangsu Provincial Price Bureau announced on Wednesday.

Factory gauge drops to new low

A Chinese manufacturing gauge fell to a 12-month low in April, suggesting government efforts to cushion a slowdown are yet to revive the nation's factories.

China looks to top the bill in Hollywood productions

LA moguls are looking longingly East as the mainland becomes a hefty box-office market, reports Xie Yu in Hong Kong.

Tough nuts to crack

As US film producers and Chinese investors continue to snuggle up to each other, industry insiders said making money from these potential marriages is harder than many think.

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StanChart on path to profits in Northeast

Standard Chartered Bank (China) Ltd officially opened a branch in Heilongjiang province on Thursday, notwithstanding the slowdown in the national and regional economy.

Flying high amid turbulent conditions

Karl Ulrich Garnadt, chief executive of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, knows that his toughest challenge is to shepherd the carrier through inclement and good weather onto the path of sustainable growth and profits.

Cashing in from the changing paradigms

Lufthansa launched its fourth cabin, the premium economy class, in October 2014, and the first flight with the new cabin to China started in December. Though the fourth cabin is available on several routes from China to Germany, China Daily decided to understand first-hand what it was like to be in the new cabin on a flight from Beijing to Frankfurt.

'Out' with the first-class, 'in' with the premium economy

With consumer preferences changing rapidly due to the economic slowdown, many carriers are now cutting first class seats and introducing a new class viz premium economy to cater to more customers, industry experts said.