Profits for Chinese chemical producers, automakers and other major industrial companies fell 1.3 percent in the first three months of 2012.
World No 1 Victoria Azarenka moved into the Stuttgart indoor tournament quarter-finals on Thur as 6th seed Caroline Wozniacki was upset by Angelique Kerber.
China is now coming to the rescue of Africa after a failed Western ideology of the past three decades has let the continent down.
Police hauled a six-year-old from his elementary school after he kicked and threatened a principal.
A gay-rights group is urging New York state's high court to overturn the conviction of an HIV-positive man whose saliva was found to be a "dangerous instrument" in a biting case.
A New York woman who donated a kidney so her ailing boss would move up the transplant waiting list.
James Cameron and 3-D photography guru Vince Pace's company has announced that it will set up a China headquarters in the city of Tianjin.
ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies both want to challenge the dominant positions of Apple and Samsung in the global high-end smartphone market.
Program for the London 2012 Festival to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games was announced on Thursday.
Li Zhenya, a member of the CPPCC National Committee, has called for stronger government supervision over TCM.
Russian dancers dressed as mermaids perform in an aquarium at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital city of Northeast China's Liaoning province, on April 26, 2012.
The final line-up for the London 2012 festival was announced on Thursday, with around 12,000 events happening across Britain in a major cultural celebration organised to coincide with the summer Olympic Games.