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CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic Center to officially kick off the city's celebrations for the Chinese Lunar New Year. The opening ceremony featured Chinese cultural performances including traditional music, dance, and Chinese martial arts, ...
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic Center to officially kick off the city's celebrations for the Chinese Lunar New Year. The opening ceremony featured Chinese cultural performances including traditional music, dance, and Chinese martial arts, to ...
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic Center to officially kick off the city's celebrations for the Chinese Lunar New Year. The opening ceremony featured Chinese cultural performances including traditional music, dance, and Chinese martial arts, to ...
BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- China has always been the focus of attention at the World Economic Forum, and more so this year with China unveiling a new round of comprehensive reforms 35 years after the launch of its first reform program. This not only heralds a new era for ...
SANTIAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chile's president-elect Michelle Bachelet named 23 ministers on Friday, two weeks after she was officially declared as the president-elect. Bachelet, who led Chile from 2006 to 2010, announced the list of ministers in Plaza San Francisco Hotel in ...
Believe it or not, Chinese New Year is less than a week away and Chinese around the world are gearing up for the most important traditional holiday. Mr. Liu lives in the Kenyan Capital Nairobi, but he is originally from Beijing. Today he's making a must have snack for the Chinese ...
In the Davos Forum, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is presently participating in discussions on the "global dimensions of China’s development". Wang Yi is in discussion with Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, who is also former US Assistant Defense Secretary, and former US National ...
China Central Television, together with other five media groups have been given special access to Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask some key questions about how the Sochi Olympics will be staged. The Russian president says his main priority is security... and that the ...
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by frustration and bitterness. Syria’s foreign minister had a heated exchange with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Walid al-Moallem had been speaking for 20 minutes when Ban interrupted the diplomat and asked him to ...
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev during violent clashes between riot police and special forces. Kiev is burning. A third day of clashes between police, special forces and rioters spiraled into chaos as police stormed barricades, fired stun ...
Hundreds of delegates waiting to register before entering a conference room at a hotel in Beijing. [China Daily] The year's end is always a busy season for various conferences, meetings and parties by businesses and institutions, and this year will be no exception. As major ...
According to experts, competition with domestic insurers, such as People's Insurance Company of China Holdings Co, and a shortage of talent are the greatest barriers for foreign insurers. [Bloomberg] More than half of the foreign life insurance companies operating in China ...
China bans TV shopping programs from 19 underfunded companies China's top broadcasting watchdog has banned the TV shopping programs of 19 companies from screens after they were found to have less registered capital than the minimum amount required for such programs. The ...
China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) has informed the local governments that they have to extend the housing purchase restriction policies after the expiry date, the Beijing News reported. Among the 46 cities that are conducting the policies, 10 cities...
Every day at 7 a.m., Xiao Lin, a Shentong Express courier in Hangzhou, packs his electric bike with about 200 parcels, all of which are to be delivered by noon. Couriers [Flie photo] After 2 p.m., Xiao Lin's main task becomes receiving parcels. His day doesn't finish until 10 p.m...
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R, front) talks with construction workers of an affordable homes community in Langfang, north China's Hebei Province, Nov. 25, 2011. Li made an inspection on the construction of affordable homes in Langfang on Friday. [Xinhua/Huang Jingwen] After ...
The book peddlers in Beijing are busy seeking underground channels to purchase pirated copies of Steve Jobs' biography. Selling at 20 yuan ($3.15) a copy, they say it's probably the last chance to exploit the memory of Jobs, the founding father of Apple Inc - the world's most ...
Despite Christmas still being a month away, employees at Yihang Christmas Decoration Arts and Crafts company have already stopped working and begun decorating their 26,000-square-meter factory on the outskirts of Yiwu, in Zhejiang province, with leftover seasonal ornaments. A ...
China's largest shopping website Taobao is recovering from the damages caused by October protests by its small-scale merchants over membership fee hike. A leading organizer of the anti-Taobao community, an alliance of hundreds of small online shoppers in dispute with China's ...
Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford gestures at a Tokyo news conference about the Japanese firm's accounting scandal yesterday. Woodford said that while he was ready to return as president, he would also be willing to walk away if Olympus and its shareholders do not want him back...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's leading group for overall reform ...
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 ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
Xinhua Feature: World's political, business leaders gather in Davos for WEF
Xinhua Feature: World's political, business leaders gather in Davos for WEF
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The snow-covered Swiss town of ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
Super car club in commercial drive
Super car club in commercial drive
On the night of Nov 11, more than 150 super cars were driven into the ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Stars 'Big Three' fall short of title in 1st year
Stars 'Big Three' fall short of title in 1st year
Miami Heat's LeBron James (R) stands with teammates Chris Bosh (C) and ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...