China's Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. will supply 100,000 gasoline engines a year to Italy's Fiat Auto under a memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday in east China's Anhui Province.

Cost-cutting efforts by senior management at BP PLC contributed to a deadly explosion at a refinery in Texas last year, which killed 15 people and injured 180, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The island province of Hainan, south China, recorded a foreign trade volume of 2.1 billion U.S. dollars in the first three quarters this year, up 10 percent from the same period last year.

Kenya and South Africa have signed a business training pact which will see the Johannesburg-based Center for Development and Enterprise (CDE) provide training for small and medium scale enterprise development in Kenya.

China and the United States should cooperate to find the true extent of the bilateral trade imbalance, said Xie Fuzhan, director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The Export-Import Bank of China said in Nanning Tuesday that it will fulfill China's commitment to grant five billion U.S. dollars as preferential loans to help Chinese companies invest in ASEAN countries as soon as possible.

China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) I, a state-owned company, on Tuesday forecast that China's aviation industry would need more than 3,000 civil aircraft in next 20 years.

Trade and economic cooperation have become top priority between China and the ten-member ASEAN these days as leaders from China and ASEAN countries gathered here for a number of events.

China inked 10 contracts respectively with 10 ASEAN member countries on Tuesday in Nanning, with the contract value standing at 600 million U.S. dollars, according to sources with China's Ministry of Commerce.

China inked 10 contracts respectively with 10 ASEAN member countries on Tuesday in Nanning, with the contract value standing at 600 million U.S. dollars, according to sources with China's Ministry of Commerce.