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Tourist arrivals reach to 2.35 million in August, up 11.25 over the same month last year, Hong Kong Tourism Board said yestoday.

Cathay Pacific Airways announced Monday they got the apporvement of government to resume the passenger services in Shanghai with a daily service......

Shanghai property shares listed in Hong Kong became the focus of market yestoday affected by the news which top leader of Shanghai -Chen Liangyu was removed......

Renault and Nissan are making progress in talks with General Motors Corp about forming a three-way alliance but the outcome is still open, Carlos Ghosn said in a newspaper interview.

The former chief executive of one of the US's largest makers of paper products was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted last year of engineering a $US300 million ($A400 million) fraud in a fruitless bid to save the failing company from bankruptcy.

As the author CS Lewis once put it, 100 per cent of us die. But this statistic seems to be lost on many Australians, with too many bread winners punting on longevity, leaving them underinsured when it comes to supporting their families if they suddenly die, a new survey shows.

The pace of existing home sales in the United States fell for a fifth straight month in August and prices dropped from year-ago levels for the first time in 11 years, a US realtors group said.

More than 300 secret documents linked to the AWB kickbacks scandal are expected to start being released on Tuesday as the long-running Cole inquiry resumes its public hearings.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the world's wealthy countries on Monday to “go the extra mile” to re-balance the rules of the trading system in favor of the poor.

Telstra is warning the forced appointment of former federal government spin doctor Geoff Cousins to the company's board could affect the sell-off of the government's final stake in the telco.

If only James Hardie Industries could pay compensation as fast it doubled its own directors' pay, disgusted victims advocate Bernie Banton lamented.

Oil prices fell below $US60 a barrel for the first time in six months on Monday amid signs of growing petroleum inventories and after BP said it had permission to resume working the eastern half of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.

The federal reserve bank issued a statement on Monday noting that the volume of syndicated credit has risen rapidly reflecting a rise of 15 percent in merger and acquisition activity over the past year while quality control has declined slightly over the last year.

UAE-based Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced on Monday that it would introduce a new cheaper fuel on October 8.

Young teenage consumers between the ages of 13 and14 not only spend $600-billion each year on products, they also talk often to their friends about the brands they buy, according to a new study.

The European Union and Malaysia agreed Monday to open negotiations to cut down on the trade of illegal timber that is exported to European countries.

It was announced today that the Kenmore European Industrial Fund had managed to raise £140m by completing an oversubscribed placing and offer for subscription.

ArmorGroup International Plc the security services firm today announced it had landed a $5.6 million mine clearance contract in Lebanon.

The British Phonographic Industry has appealed to the Government to have the recording industry’s search for new music talent included in the Government’s research and development tax credit scheme.

Anthony Green, Chairman of PZ Cussons Plc, today made a statement at the shareholders AGM. In it he announced that operating profit before exceptional items had increased by 13% to £60.2m.

Lebanon will lose about $2 billion in tourism revenues this year due to a month-long war but the tourism minister is hoping a 15,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force will help revitalise the industry.

Are Shanghai's days as the freewheeling, red-tape slashing golden boy of China's economic boom coming to an end?

Nokia today announced the release of “a selection of enhancements to heighten your mobile and music experience,” a statement said today.

Nokia today began a weeklong display of its latest imaging achievements at Photokina 2006. The event is to highlight “the benefits that mobility brings to imaging” a statement said. The exhibition contains all the latest Nokia Nseries multimedia computers.

Close Brothers posted a record pre tax profit of 157 million pounds for the 2006 financial year, slightly above consensus estimates, boosted by strength in all its businesses, the UK bank said on Monday.

Aberdeen Asset Management's assets under management fell by 3.9 percent over the five months to the end of August, primarily as a result of a fall in the value of the U.S. dollar.

Property group Minerva has dropped plans to build what would have been the City of London financial district's tallest office block, saying on Monday the project was too big for a company of its size.

Lenovo Group Ltd.(0992.HK), the world's third-largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it is looking into a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC equipped with a Sony Corp. (6758.T) battery.

Standard Life Finance Director Alison Reed will step down next month, the insurer said, ending a week of speculation about her future that has prompted concerns over management changes at the former mutual.