Quick Overview

• China's gross domestic product expanded 9.4 percent in the first quarter of 2005 from a year earlier, revised down from an initial estimate of 9.5 percent.
  

• Chinese government statistics released Monday showed the combined profits of China's industrial firms rose 15.6% on year in the first four months of 2005, down 30.1 percentage points from growth in the same period last year.
  
  

• Stock funds pull in $18 billion in April – Lipper .. much of the money continued to stream to international funds as investors found better returns abroad..
  
  
  

• The Chinese government has sent 3 million doses of avian flu vaccine to protect farm birds in the western province of Qinghai.