China Airlines is offering cut prices for flights across the Taiwan Strait. It said the cut was based on the company’s steadily improving operational performance following the 2008 economic downturn. Spokesman Hamilton Liu acknowledged that cross-strait flights have played a major role in generating profits. At present, China Airlines has 61 roundtrip flights to 14 […]
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The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported that sales of own-brand passenger vehicles from January to July reached 3.56 million, accounting for 46.4% of total sales, meaning their market share was 1% lower than in the first half. But Xu Changming, director of resource development at the State Information Center, remains optimistic and has identified […]
Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies will invest about US$500 million in a telecom equipment manufacturing facility in Chennai, India. Huawei already has a major software R&D center in India with a staff of more than 2,000 engineers. It is Huawei’s largest R&D center outside China. Huawei officials met with an Indian delegation last week […]
According to the Beijing office of The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm, electric motorcycles are expected to pass petrol motorcycles to become the leading motorcycle type sold in China. The market for electric motorcycles in China is expected to grow 11% per year through 2014 to 31.6 million units. Demand for these newer […]
Canadian budget operator WestJet Airlines now has a code-share arrangement with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways. Code-sharing, which enables an airline to sell seats, under its own name, on another carrier’s flight, is important for WestJet, which needs to expand into overseas markets to grow its business. Its own fleet of Boeing 737 Next Generation […]