Iron ore fell to its lowest level of the year and copper plunged more than 6 per cent as Chinese investors led a wave of selling across industrial commodities markets amid concerns of a global economic slowdown. The sharp falls came as the...

China tripled its solar energy generating capacity last year and notched up major increases in wind and hydropower, government figures showed this week, but officials are still struggling to cap the growth in coal burning, which is the bigg...

BEIJING - China Minmetals Corps profit rose 98.5 percent last year to 12.8 billion yuan ($2.03 billion), breaking through 10 billion yuan for the first time. Zhou Zhongshu, president of China Minmetals, the nations largest metals trader, sa...

A Sinopec gas station in Liuzhou, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The largest oil refiner in Asia said earlier that more than 70 percent of its total crude oil for refining purposes is imported. A new coal-chemical project in Henan pr...

Chinas coal supply and demand are expected to be in balanced in 2012, although sporadic shortages may occur, the countrys top policy maker, the National Development and Reform Commission, said in a notice Thursday. In mid-June this year, de...

Stockpiles of imported iron ore at major Chinese ports fell this week to 95.6 million tonnes, according to industry consultancy Mysteel. Following is a table showing iron ore port stock movements in the last seven days. Country of Stockpile...