Zhuhai taking green strides with tunnel project

While people living in older city areas are often irked by the frequent digging up of roads for underground pipe and cable maintenance, those in Hengqin New Area are free of this trouble, as all the utility facilities are placed in a large underground tunnel.

Deepwater base to burnish port's high-tech credentials

By the end of this year, the second phase of the CNOOC Zhuhai Deepwater Engineering Base is expected to be finished. By 2018, the base will be fully built, with an annual capacity of 230,000 metric tons.

Verizon snaps up AOL for $4.4b

Move comes as media landscape becomes increasingly disrupted on several fronts

There's a missing ingredient in oil's recovery

Oil bulls who've cheered a rebound of 40 percent from a six-year low should take heed: Unless demand accelerates, the rally is in danger.

Moody's downgrades Chicago to junk rating

Moody's Investors Service announced on Tuesday it has lowered Chicago credit rating to junk bond status, citing unfunded pension obligations and lagging tax revenue, in a move Mayor Rahm Emanuel called irresponsible.

Samsung in new push into Web-connected gadgets

Samsung wants to sell the digital brains that will go into billions of "smart" home appliances, industrial sensors and other Internet-connected gadgets - even if the gadgets aren't made by Samsung.

Shell adds firepower to BG Africa assets

Royal Dutch Shell Plc's $70 billion takeover of BG Group Plc will put Europe's largest energy company in the middle of East Africa's race to export natural gas and is set to boost the chances of Tanzania becoming a major supplier.

Alibaba sets up 2nd panel to look after charity efforts

Zhou Fei took to the stage for a very special ceremony recently.

Building, construction sectors adopt system of reporting on sustainability

A Singaporean property firm has been applauded by industry peers for its strenuous efforts to improve not only its own image, but that of the wider building and construction sector.

Starbucks offers a better future to migrant workers

By the age of 26, Liang Dong had worked on a factory assembly line back home in Jiangxi province, before moving north to Beijing to work first as a security guard, and then as a taxi driver.

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