Taobao

China’s largest ecommerce company Alibaba has just announced that two of its sites, Taobao and Tmall, have collectively hit RMB 1-trillion (US$159.5-billion) in sales for the whole of 2012. Well, from January to the end of November. That huge figure has been hit one month before the end of the ...

Millions of Beijing residents are going online to vent their anger over thick smog that has blanketed the Chinese capital in recent days.Conditions in the already polluted city have become so bad that hundreds of flights in and out of Beijing’s main airport -- the world’s second busiest -- ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says it has launched a service to help Japanese manufacturers crack the fast-growing Chinese market.The Tokyo-based arm of Alibaba.com said the new service ˜ which uses Taobao, China's largest retail website — would help Japanese consumer goods makers cut through red tape."High-quality Japanese products are ...