Profits at Alphabet, the parent company of search giant Google, have been hit by the record fine imposed by the European Commission last month.The firm said it saw strong growth in the second quarter, with revenues of about $26bn (£19bn), up 21% compared to the same period in 2016.But profits for th

JINAN, April 7 -- China's Shandong Gold Mining will pay 960 million U.S. dollars to Barrick Gold Corp. for a 50 percent stake in its Veladero gold mine in Argentina.The agreement was inked Thursday in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province in east China.This is the first cooperation between the two min

‘Whenever the construction market faces a slowdown economically, the demand for used equipment starts to increase,’ says one expert

BEIJING, April 13 -- China maintained its position as the World's largest goods exporter in 2016, a Ministry of Commerce statement said Thursday, citing data from the World Trade Organization (WTO).Accounting for 13.2 percent of the world's total in value, China's goods exports topped 2.1 trillion U