The increase in male golfers has also led to a hike in women golfers
Shi Ting may not be working for a living, but she is one very busy woman.
Thanks to the influence from star players as well as the growing public awareness of fitness, female participation in golf as a recreational and social activity has been on a rise in China, said governing body official.
Lenovo Group Ltd managed to buck the trend in a year where most of the other personal computer makers withered. The world's largest PC maker on Thursday reassured investors with a healthy PC business, growing enterprise unit and not-too-bad smartphone sales in its annual results.
Gaining a stable growth trajectory in the Chinese personal computer market is the key for Dell Inc to challenge Lenovo Group Ltd, said David Schmoock, president of Dell's global sales, client solutions.
A key consumer confidence index dropped one point during the first quarter, reflecting a weakening outlook in China for employment and personal finances.
Stocks on the Chinese mainland rose to a seven-year high on Thursday as a gauge of factory output showed production contracting for a third straight month, boosting speculation that the government will escalate efforts to stimulate the economy.
Is Xiaomi Corp pulling off the hunger marketing strategy in the United States?
US and British regulators fined six major global banks a total of nearly $6 billion between them on Wednesday for rigging the foreign exchange market and Libor interest rates.
Don't be fooled by the yen's recent resilience against the dollar - it's dropping against the rest of its major peers at the fastest pace in six months.
Four giants of global banking agreed on Wednesday to pay more than $5 billion in fines to regulators and plead guilty to manipulating the global currency market.
For an increasing number of Indonesians, rice and noodles are no longer at the top of the menu. Bread is becoming a new food staple.
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