Metropark takes control of UK's Kew Green Hotels

Kew Green Hotels Ltd, the United Kingdom-based hotel management company, has been acquired by Chinese hotel company HK CTS Metropark Hotels Company Ltd for an undisclosed price.

Antitrust rules for auto sector soon

China's anti-monopoly regulator has started the drafting of antitrust guidelines for the automobile industry, which are likely to involve issues emerging from online sales and parallel car imports.

Alibaba to buy back $4b of stock

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will buy back as much as $4 billion of stock as it tries to revive a share price battered by concerns about the slowing Chinese economy less than a year after going public.

Beijing 2022 can be springboard to greener future

The moment former International Olympic Committee chief Juan Antonio Samaranch announced Beijing had won the 2008 Olympic Games is etched on my mind.

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Sputtering growth engines cast shadow on full-year economic prospects

Key China growth engines sputtered in July after a short-lived recovery in the second quarter, casting a shadow on its overall economic outlook for the coming months, according to the latest official data.

Falling in love with local potatoes

Consumption in developing countries will continue to grow after global production increases 20 percent during past 20 years

Beijing suburb will pioneer research, development in growing sector

Yanqing county in the northern suburb of Beijing is an ideal area to grow high-quality potatoes. The climate is perfect and the soil should produce bumper yields of the vegetable.

Phone makers plan product onslaught

Firms to unveil slew of models across various price segments

Tsinghua arm readies to take on Qualcomm

Tsinghua Holdings Co Ltd, a technology conglomerate backed by Tsinghua University, plans to invest at least 30 billion yuan ($4.76 billion) in developing mobile chip technology, highlighting the company's ambition to challenge Qualcomm Inc's dominance in the country's chip market.

Auto sales hit 17-month low as discounts fail to attract buyers

Chinese consumers bought the fewest passenger vehicles in 17 months in July, extending a slump in the world's largest auto market as deeper discounts failed to revive demand.