Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department said Thursday it is seeking further information from Oasis Hong Kong Airlines about the delay of its inaugural flight.

China's national pension system was covering 182.42 million people by the end of September, up 4.3 percent year on year, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security said in Beijing Thursday.

New home sales in the United States rose by 5.3 percent in September, marking the second consecutive gain in sales following three months of declines, but prices plunged by the largest amount in more than 35 years, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday.

Kuwait has taken up measures to deal with a daily oil cut of 100,000 barrels began from November, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported on Thursday.

The European Union (EU) on Thursday unveiled a plan to ban all exports of mercury from July 1, 2011, which is expected to significantly reduce global supply of the highly toxic substance.

Representatives from over 120 countries will meet in Rome next week, to review just how far the world has come toward meeting the 2015 goal of reducing by half the number of hungry people in the world, then estimated at 800 million.

South Korea's state-run energy developer said Thursday that it will search for gas at the East Timor-Australia joint petroleum development area starting next month, South Korea news agency Yonhap reported Thursday.

The gold price in Hong Kong went up 80 HK dollars to 5,460 HK dollars per tael on Thursday, according to Bank of China (Hong Kong).

China is to help Nigeria to set up an export processing zone (EPZ) in Nigeria's southern state of Imo, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Thursday.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) decided on Thursday to establish an expert panel to investigate whether a Chinese auto parts import measure violates WTO trade rules or not.