Twitter Facebook Myspace Yahoo! Linkedin MixxBEIJING - When Robin Li decided to set up his own Internet company in 2000, he was said to be "chasing a dream to change people's lives" through technology. Few would have dreamed then that his Chinese search engine Baidu would become the largest of ...

That success has propelled Li, 42, to the top of Forbes magazine's billionaires list on the Chinese mainland this year, with a personal wealth of $9.4 billion (6.7 billion euros) that also ranks him 95th globally.Li heads a list of newly rich Chinese whose numbers are burgeoning on the back of the c...

China's largest power producer, Huaneng Group, last week signed an agreement with two local companies in North China's Shanxi Province to invest in a coal mine which involves a total investment of 110 million yuan (US$13.5 million).Huaneng owns 39.2 per cent in the joint venture, while Yangquan Coal...