Beijing's No.10 subway, currently under construction for the 2008 Olympic Games, will be connected in 2010 to the No.5 and No.4 subway lines, also under construction.

South Korea gained a 4.6 percent economic growth in the third quarter over a year earlier, slowing from a 5.3-percent rise the previous quarter, largely due to slowing private spending, the country's central bank said Wednesday.

Japanese exports and imports both grew more than 15 percent in value terms in the April-September period from a year earlier, marking record highs, Kyodo News quoted a finance ministry report as saying on Wednesday.

The Asia Development Bank (ADB) plans to offer 20 million U.S. dollars of loan to Cambodian for generating electricity to meet the demand of the kingdom's travel destination Sihanoukville, local media reported on Wednesday.

A natural gas agreement on selling Bolivian gas to the Argentina Energy Company (Enarsa) forbad Enarsa to resell gas to Chile, according to reports by the Bolivian Information Agency reaching here on Tuesday.

The number of Macao's imported laborers stood at 53,343 in August, a year-on-year rise of 59 percent, according to official statistics issued Wednesday.

Brazilian mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), the world's largest iron ore exporter, announced on Tuesday that it had acquired control of Canada-based mining group Inco Limited, a global leader in the nickel industry.

Brazil's state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras announced on Tuesday that it had reached a record for daily production of 1,912,733 barrels on Monday.

More than 200 million of the 758 million employees across China suffer from occupational diseases.

According to the office of the CPC Xiamen Municipal Committee, 527.9 tons of fruit were imported from Taiwan in the first three quarters of this year, valued at US$637,000, almost four times the amount that was imported over the same period last year.