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Microsoft Corp broadened its attack on Google Inc's Android software, filing patent infringement lawsuits against Barnes & Noble Inc and two manufacturers over the Android-based Nook e-reader. In the complaint filed monday in US District Court in Seattle, Microsoft said it is ...
An online video featuring two Chinese migrant workers performing the pop song "In Spring" became an Internet sensation due to the duo's simplicity and plainness. The video became so popular that the amateur duo was invited to perform at the Spring Festival TV gala aired on China ...
The AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (AVIC/ACAE) announced on Tuesday that it will hire research and development staff from abroad for locally-made jumbo jets. The first career fair will be held in London on Wednesday. The job fair in the United Kingdom will last until early ...
China's top economic planner told developers and real estate agents on Tuesday not to use underhanded means to sell property, as Beijing continues efforts to cool the country's real estate market. Anyone trying to sell a property "must not use false or nonstandard price labels to ...
China's farm produce supplies have increased amid warming weather and the country will see a decline in prices soon, the commerce ministry said Tuesday. Supplies of necessities are adequate following the country's traditional Spring Festival, so prices are expected to fall ...
China's top economic planner announced a new regulation Tuesday, demanding property developers to sell homes at marked prices from May 1 this year. The regulation is aimed to tackle public complaints over a lack of transparency in commercial property pricing, the National ...
China WindPower Group Limited, an investment holding company mainly engaged in wind power business and industry, said on Tuesday that it has proposed to conduct an international offering of RMB-denominated guaranteed bonds, targeting certain qualified institutional investors in ...
An international telecommunications exhibition in Beijing. A top regulator said the country is planning to set up a national-level cable television network company to consolidate all the separate cable television networks in the country into a single one. [China Daily] China aims ...
Announcing on Tuesday the opening of a technology center involving an investment of $2.5 million in Beijing, St Jude Medical Inc, one of the world's largest medical device manufacturers, plans to accelerate its growth in China. According to Sang Yi, vice-president and general ...
Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, will expand its small-loans business with two of the largest Chinese commercial banks in March and persuade 15 lenders to join this year. Li Feng, director of the loan division at Alibaba Financial Co, told China Daily that the company...
Sony said today shortages of parts and materials would force it to reduce or suspend production at five additional plants in Japan following the catastrophic earthquake this month. The plants, mostly in central and southern Japan, make products from digital cameras and video ...
Kumho displays its tires at an exhibition. [CFP] The South Korean tire maker Kumho Tire Co Ltd promised to recall all its faulty products and formally apologized to Chinese consumers on Monday. Last week, China Central Television revealed that the company's Tianjin plant had used ...
A new, much stronger regulation governing vehicle recalls will be unveiled this year, Liu Pingjun, deputy director of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said in a recent press conference. "We have continued to hold special meetings on auto ...
China will launch 13 weather satellites from 2011 to 2020, said Yang Jun, director of the National Satellite Meteorological Center under the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), in an interview on March 20. These satellites will see overall improvements in spatial ...
Keeping cooperation and innovation capacity are the crucial choices for China to develop its emerging industries, an U.S. economist told Xinhuanet. At present, there are three "main powers" co-predominating the development of emerging industries in the world, said Dominic Barton, ...
Aggressive expansion of Groupon-like businesses in China over the last year has spawned more than 3,000 such websites, generating a host of new consumer complaints. Wang Xing, CEO of group buy site meituan.com, revealed in an interview with China Central Television (CCTV) that it ...
The much-anticipated launch of United States group-buying giant Groupon Inc in China has left some Chinese puzzled and disappointed. I count myself among them. At my first visit on the new website, called Gaopeng in China, I was surprised to see that a mere 80 people had signed ...
China's Beidou global navigation system is expected to generate revenues of about 400 billion yuan (60 billion US dollars) by 2020 as the country attempts to compete with foreign GPS technology, a senior space technology expert said Saturday. "By 2015, our country's Beidou ...
Honda Motor Co. is recalling more than 33,000 2011 Odyssey minivans to fix faulty windshield wipers, according to a Friday report on the website of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). According to the recall notice, Honda is recalling 33,341 units of Odyssey ...
Huawei Technologies Co, the world's second-biggest maker of mobile-phone networks, said it completed its first shipment of "essential" communications equipment to Tokyo since the earthquake in Japan. Technical teams from Huawei are working to help repair and restore infrastructur...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
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History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...