China exported 7.07 billion U.S. dollars worth of toys in the first 10 months of 2007, representing a growth of 20.1 percent over the same period of the previous year. Customs sources said the growth was 13.9 percentage points higher than the year-earlier level, despite the fact that Chinese-made products had been smeared more or less by some product recalls. Sales in processing trade made up 4.05 billion U.S. dollars, or57.3 percent of...

China's top leaders have decided that reining in a red-hot economy on the verge of overheating will be a priority in 2008, a year that they say is crucial to meeting the 2006-2010 targets of saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) held the second meeting of the regular exchange mechanism on Friday, pledging to further exchange and push forward the healthy and stable relations between the two countries.

SOFTWARE maker Adobe Systems and Internet company Yahoo said they will offer a service to let publishers run advertisements inside Adobe's popular document reading software format. Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo, as the new service...

THE Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund needs to raise a record $3.57 million this year. This is because it wants to give each needy child on the fund a bit more to cope with the rising cost of living, said the fund's chairman Mr Peter...

Microsoft and Facebook said the US$240 million investment valued Facebook at US$15 billion, which analysts said was a steep price and a bet the young company would be able to transform itself into a hub for all sorts of Web activity. ..

Microstock has lowered the barriers for photographers hoping to make money out of their hobby, and plenty of people have chosen to make the most of that opportunity. But selling pictures isn’t the only way that you can earn money from microstock....