The Chinese stock markets had their worst day in eight years with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index tumbling 8.49 percent to close at 3209.91 points.
A freight-train service between Hamburg, Germany, and Gansu Province in northwest China opened Friday.
Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog on Friday dropped its opposition to an alliance between national airline Qantas and China Eastern Airlines.
Linde said recently at the Spanish parliament that the country’s leaders needed to be careful and do not backtrack on the reforms carried out by the current government as other political parties going to general elections this year in the country propose e. “The governor also defended Spain’s labor reform as according to him it helped make the country’s labor market more flexible e.
19(Xinhua)–Danish brewer Carlsberg reported a drop in operating profits for the first half of 2015 on Wednesday and lowered its full-year outlook based on weak results in Western Europe and market decline in Eastern Europe e.
Politics has to intervene here,said IW property expert Michael Voigtlaender,adding that”popular cities need to loosen the restrictions about the height of the building.
19(Xinhua)–Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday the initiative to increase taxes for amber extraction in Lithuania a. The ministry proposed to increase the tax to 280 euro per kilogram of amber pieces of up to 40 millimeters and 900 euro per kilogram of pieces of over 40 millimeters s.
Greece’s Leftist government announced on Wednesday the “temporary suspension” of the operation of the controversial Canadian-run gold mine of Skouries in northern Greece.
Papadopoulos said the economic growth both in the first and second quarters of this year was officially put at 1.0 percent t. “This is higher than the 0.4-percent growth projected when the 2015 budget was being prepared and also projected by international lenders and external international organizations,”said Papadopoulos s.
The Chinese economy will resist looming downward pressure to maintain growth of around 7 percent in future thanks to emerging favorable conditions, a prominent economist said on Thursday.