8 Oct 2012

The 2012 Julius Baer Lifestyle Index tracks changes in the cost of luxury items in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Mumbai...

1:10PM
1 May 2012

It wasn't quite the moment where the small boy reveals that the people has been deluded by public relations, spin and plain lies, and that the emperor really has no clothes and is in his birthday...

1:54PM
14 Feb 2012

The source of the problem is the city's low birth rate, which demography expert Paul Yip Siu-fai believes has to be doubled to keep the economy growing at the current rate by 2018.

7:27AM
28 Feb 2011

The central government announced for the first time that it would lower its gross domestic product growth target for the 12th five-year plan (2011-15) to curb blind economic growth.

7:15AM
6 Jan 2011

When evaluating [Liaoning] province's economy, [Vice-Premier Li Keqiang] said he focused on three figures - electricity consumption, volume of rail cargo and the amount of loans issued, a...

7:10AM
11 Dec 2010

The mainland leadership has opened its annual economic conference to set growth policies for next year, with inflation at the top of the agenda.

1:28PM

The National Bureau of Statistics has acknowledged rampant irregularities over the release of official statistics, in an apparent response to media questions over the leaking of key economic data...

4:24PM

People are arguing about the savings glut again.

This was an idea put forward in March 2005 by Ben Bernanke, then a governor, now chairman, of the United States Federal Reserve....

7:08PM

The decline in consumer and producer prices on the mainland continued into last month, but economists are playing down the risk of deflation, noting that commodity prices had rebounded, the...

6:08AM

Policymakers are quietly loosening the monetary reins after the worst snowstorms in half a century took their initial toll on economic activities in the first month of the year and threaten to...

6:25PM

Under fire for dubious economic data, the mainland's top statistician vowed his agency would create more indices to reflect changes to people's lifestyles and work to improve the accuracy of...

5:41PM

The National Bureau of Statistics will not release politically sensitive consumer inflation data for last month when it unveils last year's key economic data today, an official statement said....

5:31PM

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