Visiting Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday in Warsaw that a reduction in the dependence on imported energy should be one of the top priorities of the EU energy policy, the PAP news agency reported.

In order to halt a precipitous fall in prices at the world oil market, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) appeared ready Thursday to announce a one million barrel per day cut to the cartel's oil production, the first since 2004.

China's Social Security Fund racked up investment income of 12.14 billion yuan (1.52 billion U.S. dollars) in the first nine months of the year, at a yield of 6.01 percent.

American companies can enter the Chinese mainland market through Hong Kong, said Hong Kong Director- General of Investment Promotion Mike Rowse on Thursday.

The per capita cash income of Chinese farmers hit 2,762 yuan (345 U.S. dollars) in the first nine months of the year, up 11.4 percent year on year, a National Bureau of Statistics spokesman said on Thursday.

Tang Shuangning, Deputy Director of China's banking watchdog -- China Banking Regulatory Commission -- says China's banking industry has three major imbalances.

China Unicom, one of China's telecommunications giants, has invested 100 million patacas (12.5 million U.S. dollars) in the launch of its Macao Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) services.

<center><img src=/200610/19/images/huang400.jpg><br> <font color=blue>Huang Zequan, vice-chairman of the Chinese-African People's Friendship Association, chairs the opening ceremony of the seminar. </font></center><br><br>

A trade fair opened in Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province on Thursday to showcase the substantial progress in the agricultural cooperation between the mainland and Taiwan.

Former head of China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Qiu Xiaohua is suspected of involvement in the Shanghai social security fund fraud and is being investigated by disciplinary departments, a NBS spokesman said Thursday.