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Higher milk powder, butter and cheese exports led a 12 percent rise in the total value of exports in July to 3.6 billion NZ dollars (2.6 billion U.S. dollars), showed figures releaseed by Statistics New Zealand on Monday. Dairy exports increased by almost a third in July, followed by strong increases in boats, ships and [...]

Hainan Airlines Co., Ltd., one of China’s major air carriers, said its first-half-year net profit jumped 218.19 percent on strong market demand and domestic economic growth. Net profit totaled 556.8 million yuan (81.9 million U.S. dollars) in the first six months this year, the company said in a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange [...]

The South Korean government spent a total of 178.6 trillion won (150 billion U.S. dollars) in terms of fiscal expenditure for the first seven months of 2010, the finance ministry said Friday. According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, South Korea has spent around 65.9 percent of this year’s planned fiscal budget of 271.3 [...]