In a humming factory in southern China, a machine is busy tailoring fabric to custom designs. In 18 seconds, it has made a pair of jeans, outperforming any human, who'd take 30 minutes to an hour to do the same job.
Alain Dehaze, the new chief executive of the world's biggest job recruitment and human resources company, Adecco Group, says his driving ambition does not simply lie in numbers.
The 2016 Water Africa and West Africa Building and Construction exhibition started in Accra, capital of Ghana, on June 22.
The long-term outlook for the mainland is good. People only see the debt in state-owned enterprises and in households, when they need to recognize that China is a big exporter."
Britain's Ingenious Media has reached a $200 million deal with Chinese fund Hejing Culture to form a joint venture that will co-produce and co-finance a slate of films.
Russia, the world's top oil producer, is reported by Bloomberg to be seeking Indian or Chinese buyers for a 19.5 percent stake of its oil giant, Rosneft, as part of efforts to cover budget deficits and privatize its state-owned sector.
When the renminbi fell to 6.58 against the US dollar, the lowest level in five years, on June 17, it sent alarm bells ringing in many sectors -but not in the tourism industry.
The theme park business in China saw its biggest event of the year on June 16 when the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disney Resort opened.
A rich harvest of information awaited a group of African visitors earlier this month as they walked through village fields, watching Chinese farmers feed their pigs and trying out the latest in farming machinery.
Global investors have shrugged off MSCI Inc's decision not to include China's A shares in its benchmark index.
Large shareholders in a number of companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen have been reducing their holdings since the beginning of May, according to disclosures to the exchanges concerned.