466-HARBIN, China, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Education Alliance, Inc. ("China Education Alliance" or the "Company") (OTCQX: CEAI), a China-based education resource and services company, today announced its first quarter 2012 results.  The Company will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at 8 a.m. EDT or 8 p.m. Beijing time. Financial Highlights for the First Quarter ended March 31, 2012 Total revenues decreased by 31.3% to $4.8 million.

437-China's doctors are in crisis. In recent years, they have faced increasing threats to their personal safety at work. Doctors have been abused, injured, and even murdered by patients or relatives of patients in hospitals and clinics across the country. In a recent tragic case, described in a letter published online today in , a male intern at the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University was stabbed to death by a patient.

495-HARBIN, China, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China XD Plastics Company Limited (NASDAQ: CXDC, "China XD Plastics" or the "Company"), one of China's leading specialty chemical players engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of modified plastics primarily for automotive applications, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. First Quarter Fiscal 2012 Financial Highlights: Revenue was $123.2 million, an increase of 61.8% from $76.

458-NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Alcoholic Beverages Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p0788307/Global-Alcoholic-Beverages-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Alcoholic The global outlook series on Alcoholic Beverages provides a collection of statistical findings, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings.

415-HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's big state companies, confident on the outlook for domestic natural gas reforms, are buying up local distributors and raising fresh capital - and making gas the hottest prospect for energy investment in the world's top energy consumer. The prospects for expansion and acquisitions also have China's natural gas distributors trading like growth stocks, instead of bog-standard utilities.

346-By Aileen Wang and Nick Edwards SANYA, China | Sun May 6, 2012 5:45pm EDT SANYA, China (Reuters) - A central government plan to create a high end tourist industry on the tropical Hainan island has delivered a much-anticipated surge in economic growth, but it has also widened the wealth gap between rich and poor that Beijing was trying to close.

457-HARBIN, China, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China XD Plastics Company Limited (NASDAQ: CXDC, "China XD Plastics" or the "Company"), one of China's leading specialty chemical players engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of modified plastics primarily for automotive applications, today announced that it will release financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 after the NASDAQ market closed on Thursday, May 10, 2012.

467-- Acetadote® patent allowed - International licensing agreement signed for China NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CPIX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on hospital acute care and gastroenterology markets, today announced first quarter 2012 financial results. Net Revenues: For the three months ended March 31, 2012, net revenues were $10.3 million, compared to $10.7 million in the prior year period.

453-The single, easiest way to keep track of all the stocks that matter... Your own personalized stock watchlist! It's a 100% FREE Motley Fool service... Sometimes an earnings announcement provides an interesting glimpse into the psyche of a company. This seems to be the case with Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD  ) . The firm devoted the first section of its just-released first-quarter figures to the fairly marginal improvements it made in U.S. sales.

488-Bierbrouwer Anheuser-Busch InBev heeft in het eerste kwartaal van 2012 1,8% meer bier verkocht in vergelijking met een jaar geleden. De omzet steeg met 6,2% tot 9,3 miljard dollar. Het bedrijfsresultaat (EBITDA) steeg met 7,4% tot 3,5 miljard dollar. De nettowinst steeg met 44,7% toe tot 1,7 miljard dollar. In het eerste kwartaal van 2012 nam het totale volume met 1,8% toe, waarbij het volume eigen bieren en het volume niet-bieren een stijging met respectievelijk 1,4% en 6,3% kenden.

305-De Europese beurzen zijn vanmorgen meestal hoger geopend, met relatief beperkte winsten voor de belangrijkste indices. Die winsten blijven beperkt tot maximaal een half procent. Adidas, dat vanmorgen meevallende cijfers bekendmaakte en bovendien de guidance verhoogde, opende op de cijfers bijna 5% hoger.

393-Forget Beijing or Shanghai. Porsche AG, Maserati and Bentley Motors Ltd. are taking the fight for China's rich to the deserts of Inner Mongolia. The maker of the 911 sports car opened a dealership in Ordos -- a sparsely populated mining city known as home to Genghis Khan's mausoleum -- in March after sales jumped 10-fold in four years to 200 vehicles, according to the head of Porsche China.

214-CHINESE and Russian warships concluded a live ammunition exercise today, following a no-weapon joint war game earlier the same day. Six warships, including the Chinese navy's missile destroyer DDG-112 Harbin and...

485-By Lucy Hornby DALIAN, China | Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:50am EDT DALIAN, China (Reuters) - The wide-open sweep of the Xinghai Plaza in the Chinese port city of Dalian is the legacy of Bo Xilai, the dynamic former mayor who was China's most openly ambitious politician, and who is now at the center of China's biggest political scandal in decades. The plaza is also associated with multi-millionaire Xu Ming, described by executives as Bo's closest business ally, who is in detention as well.

468-De faculteiten Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaarttechniek (L&R) en Techniek, Bestuur en Management (TBM) van de TUD bieden vanaf volgend jaar september elk vijf online mastervakken aan. Hiermee wil de Delftse universiteit niet alleen Delftse studenten in het buitenland tegemoetkomen, maar ook professionals die hun kennis willen opvijzelen. De vijf online vakken van L&R zijn kernvakken uit een masterprofiel voor het ontwerpen en optimaliseren van lichtgewicht constructies.

398-Simon Meng's flight to Harbin, China, was supposed to take about five hours. Instead, he had a two-day delay, arguments with airline staff, a nighttime wait in the rain, a trip to the hospital, and a dispute with police. About 30 other passengers on the Shenzhen Airlines Co. flight also forced their way onto a Shanghai Pudong International Airport taxiway after being stranded for about 15 hours.

274-NEWARK, N.J., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. (NYSE: AOB), (the "Company" or "AOB"), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving health through the development, manufacture and commercialization of a broad range of...

436-Het virtueel onderwijs komt er aan: de faculteiten Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaarttechniek (L&R) en Techniek, Bestuur en Management (TBM) bieden volgend jaar elk vijf online mastervakken aan. Met dit experiment wil de TU wereldwijd niet alleen studenten maar vooral ook professionals bereiken die hun kennis willen opvijzelen. Zij kunnen hierdoor onafhankelijk van tijd en plaats studeren met begeleiding, toetsing en mogelijk certificering.

427-By ESTHER FUNG SHANGHAI-China's campaign to tame housing costs showed fresh progress in March, as new-home prices in major cities posted their first year-on-year decline since Beijing began cracking down on the housing market two years ago. But with sales volumes showing signs of revival and prices continuing to rise in some markets, analysts said the central government's tough restrictions could continue or even intensify.