Linktone Ltd. one of the leading providers of wireless interactive entertainment services to consumers in China, today announced that it will report financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 after the U.S. equities markets close on Monday, December 1, 2008.
Linktone will host a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2008 financial [...]
China’s huge trade surplus with the United States is “directly related to its manipulation of its currency’s value,” Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in a letter released on Wednesday.
It came in a letter to a U.S. textile group concerned about a surge in clothing imports from China when quotas negotiated by the Bush administration [...]
Asia Pacific’s most outstanding travel and tourism event will be organised with much aplomb in year 2008. Schedule to be held at the Beijing Exhibition Center, China from 19 to 21 June 2008, the 5th presentation of Beijing International Tourism Expo 2008 (BITE 2008) is exceptionally meaningful and significant as it coincides with the much-anticipated [...]
IFCOT, the International Forum on Chinese Outbound Tourism, will co-partner with COTTM for a consecutive year to run their annual forum alongside the outbound travel and tourism show of China.
COTTM, China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market, is the only business-to-business exhibition in China designated to service the fast-growing Chinese outbound travel and tourism market. Taking [...]
Traders Hotel, Beijing says it has become one of the first properties in the city to install water-free urinals, saving thousands of liters of fresh water each year.
As an Olympic Partner Hotel, the property says it has placed environment protection on its list of preparations for the Games, and is currently installing the environmentally friendly [...]
It’s hard to say just when. Development is driven by the availability of capital, which is plentiful. Each economy is booming in its own right. Occupancy, ADR’s and RevPars are at or near historic levels and there’s significant guest room shortages in many markets.
In a time of unprecedented economic growth, trying to predict future demand [...]
When you read the word Hyatt, you probably think of plush hotels. When you read the word Andaz, you’re supposed to think of plush hotels with “personal style.”
Global Hyatt Corp. plans to launch several hotels under the new brand this year, with properties already slated for New York and London, and others to follow elsewhere [...]
BEIJING - Tourists visiting Beijing for next year’s Summer Olympics may find Bibles in their hotel rooms.
China’s state-run news agency quotes the vice president of the China Patriotic Catholic Association as saying his group is willing to gather Bibles to place in hotel rooms.
The Beijing games are expected to attract more than a-half million people.
Nina R. Eldred, former vice president and assistant general counsel for Marriott International and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, has joined Holland & Knight’s Global Hospitality and Resort Team as a senior counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
Eldred is recognized as one of the leading hospitality lawyers representing hotel owners and operators in the acquisition, [...]
An 18-story hotel and condo tower going up on Lake Grapevine will be the first skyscraper in Flower Mound.
Houston developer Hines plans to break ground today on the Lakeside Resort & Residences tower. The high-rise will contain a 289-room, four-star hotel topped by 64 luxury condos on Lakeside Drive.
“Yes, the Lakeside Resort & Residences will [...]
Hong Kong shares edged up Friday as the market’s two biggest blue chips HSBC Holdings and China Mobile posted solid gains.
The index rose 50.21 points, or 0.3 percent, to 20,327.72.
Bank HSBC rose 1.1 percent to HK$143.00 on a positive report by Morgan Stanley and signs of a rebound in the housing market in the U.S., [...]
China’s government has imposed a tax on new real estate developments, adding to efforts to restrain a rapid rise in housing costs, a state news agency reported Thursday.
The tax, which takes effect Feb. 1, will be equivalent to 30 to 60 percent of developers’ net gain on a real estate deal, the Xinhua News Agency [...]
