China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil producer, has acquired China National Chemical Construction Corporation (CNCCC).

As part of the agricultural cooperation between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, the China Agriculture Studies Village program was launched on Sunday in east China's Shandong Province.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has said results of explorations have shown that there are oil and gas in the country's Northwestern province.

Five years ago, Wei Hanhui, an entrepreneur from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, obtained a license for the operation of a major iron mine in north Vietnam.

Forty percent of migrant laborers in Chinese cities work more than eight hours a day and 47 percent work seven days a week, according to a latest nationwide survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

China will step up surveillance over the safety of farm products with the nation's first law on farm products safety expected to take effect on November 1, deputy agriculture minister Niu Dui said in Beijing Sunday.

Panamanians went to the polls Sunday in a referendum on a proposed widening of the 92-year-old Panama Canal.

Migrant laborers in Chinese cities earn an average of 966 yuan (120.75 U.S. dollars) per month, much more than the average farmer, but still very low compared to urban residents.

Ending Nepal Oil Corporation's ( NOC) monopoly over petroleum dealings, the government has passed a bill that will now allow private sectors to enter the hitherto one- manned show of petroleum business, a leading newspaper, The Himalayan Times daily, reported on Sunday.

The popular U.S.-based video-sharing Web site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked by a group representing Japan's entertainment industry, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.