BEIJING: China’ largest company, Ali Baba.com providing business information through Internet was seen making 100 percent annual profit at a time when the markets all across the world were in the grip of deep depression.Ali Baba.com said that the company posted profit of Yuan780.2 million in the third quarter of the current year, which as compared to the same period last year remained higher by 37 percent and as against second quarter higher by over 6 percent. Company’s CEO said that despite depression in the global market, Ali Baba.com was growing and during January-September, the company’s profit was recorded at 100 percent.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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