Beijing Survey

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  Home Prices Are Through The Roof In These Cities. How Mumbai Ranks

  In 15 of the 100-plus municipalities surveyed by Bloomberg, the monthly housing cost for units used in the analysis would be at least double an average income. Mumbai, Buenos Aires and Kiev led the "impossible dream" pack.

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  Chinese Prefer Pak, Want To Move Away India As Neighbour: Survey

  If given a chance to 'play God', majority of Chinese would like to redraw country's map and move away neighbours such as India, Japan with whom Beijing has territorial disputes.

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  Global Economy: Second Half of 2015 Begins on Shaky Note

  The surveys come just months after the European Central Bank embarked on a 60 billion euro a month bond-buying programme and as Beijing said it would allow its yuan currency to fluctuate more widely within its trading band as a way to support trade.

• China's Young Migrants Like Cities, Spend More - Survey

  China's young rural migrant workers are more eager to work in cities, and are spending more and saving less, an official survey showed on Monday, a trend that could boost Beijing's efforts to urbanise and re-balance the economy in the long term.

• 200 people become billionaires in Asia: survey

  Asia experienced a billionaire boom last year, with more than 200 people from the continent seeing their net worth pass into 10 figures, a Chinese publisher said on Tuesday.

• Chinese love affair with gold beats Indian demand: survey

  China overtook India as the biggest consumer of gold in the world last year, ramping up its demand by 32.0 per cent from the 2012 level, the World Gold Council reported on Tuesday.

• 5.5 quake hits northeast China: US Geological Survey

  A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck northeast China Saturday at a shallow depth of 12.5 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.

• Journalism keeps them single in China

  Journalists may be known for their single-mindedness, but in China, they are in a single category of a different sort. The profession has the largest numbers of singletons, the survey has found.

• China HSBC Flash PMI eases, points to tepid Q2 recovery

  Growth in China's vast factory sector dipped in April as new export orders shrank, a preliminary survey of factory managers showed on Tuesday, suggesting the world's second-largest still faces formidable global headwinds into the second quarter.

• China hits back at US in annual human rights survey

  China accused the United States on Sunday of spying on its own citizens, discriminating against women and ethnic minorities and allowing gun crime to run out of control, in Beijing's annual rebuttal to Washington's criticism of its rights record.

• Chinese economy on track for gradual recovery, HSBC Flash PMI up

  Growth in China's vast manufacturing sector picked up in March, a preliminary survey of factory managers showed on Thursday, recovering from a holiday-driven dip the month before but still short of January's strong performance.

• Global growth at four-month low, but stocks rally

  Global economic growth slowed to a four-month low in February, according to service sector surveys on Tuesday, but China's pledge to boost government spending to achieve 7.5 percent growth this year may help support activity in Europe and the United States also.

• China services growth at five-month low in February

  Growth in China's increasingly important services sector expanded at its slowest pace in five months in February, reinforcing the view that the recovery in the world's second-largest economy remains modest.

• Asia has the world's most billionaires: survey

  Asia has more billionaires than any other continent, followed by North America and Europe, according to a survey by a China-based wealth magazine released on Thursday.

• Vietnam: Chinese boats cut seismic cables

  Vietnam's state-owned oil and gas company accused Chinese fishing boats on Monday of sabotaging one of its seismic survey ships in the South China Sea, adding to already high tensions over Beijing's disputed territorial claims in the waters.