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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spent the New Year holiday visiting farmers and citizens of a revolutionary base in east China's Jiangsu Province in the first two days of 2007, conveying New Year greetings to the locals. Braving chilly weather, Wen walked through farmland, chatted ...
China's trade surplus may surge to a record new high of around US$190 billion this year despite government efforts to curb exports and encourage imports, the Chinese Academy of Sciences predicted in its latest analytical report. If these projections came true, China would ...
GENEVA: Dr Margaret Chan took charge of the World Health Organization yesterday, the most prominent UN post ever held by a Chinese national, saying she wanted to be judged on how well the agency tackles the problems of women and Africans. "I want my leadership to be judged by the ...
China's new adoption rules are not meant to restrict the number of foreigners who can adopt Chinese children, but to ensure that kids receive the best possible family care, according to an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Lu Ying, director of the China Center for ...
BEIJING -- China's imports and exports in 2006 would exceed 1.75 trillion U.S. dollars, up 24 percent or 330 billion U.S. dollars from 2005, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The figure was close to the ministry's previous forecast of 1.758 trillion U.S. dollars. However, ...
BEIJING -- China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) has just issued a set of new regulations to improve effectiveness in enforcing court rulings. The new regulations set a time limit of six months for executing court rulings involving property. Applications to defer an execution must ...
Company executives in China were the big winners of last year's soaring stock market, with the top 50 executives worth nearly 40 billion yuan (US$5.1 billion), according to media reports. None of the top 50 was worth less than 200 million yuan and half of the top 50 saw their ...
Beijing has said Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian is trying to ruin cross-Straits ties, as it reacted angrily to his New Year message insisting the island was not part of China, according to state media reports. An unnamed spokesman from the Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office also ...
BEIJING - China's tax revenues soared 22 percent in 2006, the government said Tuesday, amid surging economic growth and official efforts to increase tax collections from private industry. Revenues in 2006 totaled 3.8 billion yuan ($480 billion), the State Administration of ...
DENVER Racing to reverse the country's economic spiral, US President Barack Obama signed a mammoth stimulus package into law Tuesday and readied a $50 billion rescue plan for Wednesday announcement to help legions of homeowners who are facing foreclosure. There was no recovery ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday said exchanges between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the major political parties of Japan, including the New Komeito Party, the minority member of Japan's coalition government, are extremely important. In a meeting with Akihiro Ota, ...
L'AQUILA, Italy Rescuers raced against time to find survivors from a powerful earthquake that killed at least 179 people in central Italy and left tens of thousand homeless. Rescue workers in the medieval walled city of L'Aquila said that more than 24 hours after the quake struck ...
MEXICO CITY -- The A (H1N1) flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America -- and in Canada, back to pigs -- even as Mexico's health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began...
SEATTLE -- A Washington state man with underlying heart conditions became the third person infected with A(H1N1) flu to die in the US, health officials said Saturday, while Costa Rica reported the first A(H1N1) flu death outside North America. Japanese authorities, meanwhile, ...
WASHINGTON -- The United States remains working with Sweden, which represents American interests in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in a bid to win the release of two US journalists being held by Pyongyang, the State Department said Tuesday. "The concern of the ...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops, some smiling and dancing, began to withdraw from Gaza Sunday after their government and Hamas militants declared an end to a three-week war. But neither side achieved long-term goals and the burden of consolidating the fragile calm fell to ...
UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has informed the Security Council of his intention to establish a commission to look into Israel's bombing of UN facilities in Gaza, the Council's president said on Monday. The UN chief made the announcement in a closed-door ...
China will step up audits of new projects, state-owned enterprises and financial institutions next year to make its macro-control measures more effective in fighting the financial crisis, the country's chief auditor said here on Monday. "Our focus next year is to oversee the ...
WASHINGTON US officials said Monday that they want answers from Russia on whether it is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran, a move the US insists could threaten American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A senior military intelligence official said that while Moscow ...
The five Chinese construction workers who were arrested in Romania following a labor dispute were released on Wednesday, a provincial labor official said. Shen Fengche, deputy director of the Jilin labor and social security department, yesterday said more than 200 workers from ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday slammed the remarks of ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
GM China chairman to retire
GM China chairman to retire
CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. announced Friday that ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
China cloning pigs on industrial scale
China cloning pigs on industrial scale
Cloning is a controversial and decisive issue that has split public ...
Logistics industry faces reshuffle
Logistics industry faces reshuffle
Every day at 7 a.m., Xiao Lin, a Shentong Express courier in Hangzhou, ...
Airbus opens Chinese logistics center
Airbus opens Chinese logistics center
A model of an Airbus SAS A350 XWB on display at an air show. The ...
Dollar trades at lower 102 yen level in early Tokyo deals
Dollar trades at lower 102 yen level in early Tokyo deals
TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar traded at the lower 102 ...