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With 15 months to go before the start of the Beijing Olympics, the capital is stepping up its efforts to build an environment-friendly city. Consumption rates of energy and water per unit of GDP are both expected to shrink by 5 percent this year, while the rate of chemical oxygen ...
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said Wednesday that Japan remains committed to building friendly relations with China, according to Kyoto News. The Japanese government's top spokesman made the remarks in response to a question about Japanese Prime Minister ...
The State Council, China's cabinet, on Tuesday granted the release of a set of milestone regulations to boost official transparency, ordering government departments to be more open in giving out information. Premier Wen Jiabao has signed a decree of the State Council to ...
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, arrived here Monday on an official good-will visit as guest of Kenyan government. In a written statement delivered upon arrival ...
Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong urged the Xing'an League of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to ensure a stable farmland acreage for the national food safety. During his visit to the league on Saturday and Sunday, Zeng said the league should make efforts to increase grain ...
Passengers flying between Beijing and Shanghai will now find it more convenient. Flights between the two cities will arrive and depart every 30 minutes. However, passengers will have to pay a price for the convenience. Some tickets will have no discounts, the Shanghai Business ...
The Huaihe River basin remains heavily polluted despite more than a decade's efforts to clean it, water officials said yesterday. In a report to the National People's Congress, the Huaihe River commission under the Ministry of Water Resources, said the country had failed to ...
China's state assets watchdog on Wednesday ordered all central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to report their major investment activities in a bid to shun investment risks. Some SOEs continue to increase their investment despite their high asset liability ratio and some even ...
Annual consumer price index (CPI) growth may stop at 4 percent this year when measures to stabilize food prices kick in, according to a bureau of statistics official. The government has taken a series of initiatives, such as subsidizing farmers to raise pigs, to increase the ...
CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA: Rifles cracked and artillery boomed through the Ural Mountains here yesterday as a group of terrorists overran a village, taking hundreds of residents hostage. On hearing of the invasion, armed forces from China and Russia swiftly dispatched reconnaissance ...
The UN Security Council has decided unanimously to deploy 26,000 UN and African Union (AU) troops and policemen in Darfur, with Sudan accepting the plan as "practical" and saying it will cooperate fully with the "hybrid force". Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, too, has praised the ...
German officials reaffirmed yesterday Berlin would not give in to pressure from the Taliban to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, after Al-Jazeera television broadcast a video showing a German hostage. The man appeared on Al-Jazeera on Tuesday in a video without sound but a ...
The UN Security Council has decided unanimously to deploy 26,000 UN and African Union (AU) troops and policemen in Darfur, with Sudan accepting the plan as "practical" and saying it will cooperate fully with the "hybrid force". Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, too, has praised the ...
The Xi'an Aerospace Measurement & Control Center has scored breakthroughs in precise orbit determination technologies and laid a foundation for China's lunar probing program, as learned from a meeting commemorating the 40th founding anniversary of the center. Through researches ...
XI'AN: The rapid shrinking of No 1 Glacier on Tianshan Mountain in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is a clear warning of the reality of climate change. "The shrinkage is taking place at the rate of 3.5 m a year on the eastern part of the glacier and 5.9 m a ...
China is to increase subsidy for retired servicemen who were recruited after November 1954 and had fought battles and those who participated nuclear tests beginning in August, according to a decision by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council. ...
In the past four decades the Chinese army has been better equipped, but the tradition virtues of frugality, discipline and readiness to serve the people remain unchanged among the troops. "Guards Under Neon Light" was a household name of Chinese movie more than 40 years ago ...
China on Monday announced a new policy that seeks to curb the development of process trade in labor-intensive industries, in a bid to reduce its ever rising trade surplus. The new policy, to take effect on August 23, shall cover 1,853 products in plastics, furniture and textiles ...
China's unremitting efforts in establishing a legal framework for intellectual property rights (IPR) at home and abroad has won praise. Michael S. Keplinger, deputy director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), said China is a significant contributor ...
GUANGZHOU: Retailer Carrefour yesterday announced the opening of a trade union to cover its five outlets in the city. The organization, which is the company's first in Guangdong Province, will have a branch in each outlet and represent some 590 employees. It will be chaired by Li ...
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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 ...