China is stepping into the global limelight, as the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has attracted worldwide attention, but in the meantime also attracted the political speculators as well as those with ulterior motives who attempt to vi ...
Ticket sales for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 will officially begin in September this year, according to Yang Xiong, Vice Mayor of Shanghai.According to reports, after the Beijing Olympic Games, on September 28, the Shanghai World Expo ...
The man charged into Shanghai's Zhabei district police station, stabbed nine police officers and a security guard before being restrained, the Oriental Morning Post said on its website, without saying what his motive was. "Five people have already died, among
At least 28 workers were working underground when the accident happened at noon on Tuesday in Shaanxi province's Shenmu county, it said. Two of the dead had been rescued alive, but later died in hospital, the report added. China, the
He was already dead by the time that I arrived," a Chinese friend explained to me. "I rode my bicycle as fast as I could to the countryside to see the execution but in the end, I only heard the
BEIJING-China has accused Japan of infringing upon its sovereignty after Japanese lawmakers conducted an aerial survey of disputed islands in a fishery-rich area of the East China Sea, Chinese ...
An edition of the Riz Khan show on Al Jazeera English, which originally aired on June 25, 2008, examines the potentially fragile relationship between China and Africa and asks if China is exploiting African nations or offering real economic growth
From Reuters:The International Monetary Fund's country representative for Congo, Xavier Maret, said the $9 billion mining and infrastructure partnership with China signed by Kinshasa this year had raised questions about Congo's level of indebtedness."With this question regarding the Chinese project,
Following riots in Weng'an, Guizhou over an alleged police cover-up of the rape and murder of a teenage girl, authorities have announced that the case will be reopened. From AP:Police initially determined that the high school student drowned, angering locals
Liu Guijin, China's top envoy to Africa, is quoted in several news outlets with comments on China's position toward the current situation in Zimbabwe:From Xinhua:China supports the mediation efforts taken by the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development
COFCO Ltd, China's largest national agricultural trading and food processing company, will buy a 4.95 percent stake in Smithfield Foods Inc, the largest pork producer in the US, mainly because it wishes to acquire the technology and managem ...
Beijing will fund up to 5.2 billion yuan (about 742 million U.S. dollars) this year to help build a new town for quake-hit Shifang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, said a local official in Shifang. "The reconstruction fu ...
The seventh Asia-Europe Meeting will be held this October in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said this at a routine press conference on the afternoon of July 1st.The official website of the meeting, www.asem7.cn, opened ...
With 16 trapped miners confirmed dead on Wednesday, the death toll of a coal shaft collapse accident on Tuesday rose to 18 in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The accident occurred at around 11:16 a.m. at the state-owned Huisen L ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC)is ready to push forward its ties with the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), a visiting senior official of the CPC said here Tuesday. He Guoqiang, member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of t ...
A bumper summer harvest would not help to ease the growth of the consumer price index (CPI) in China. Domestic grain prices are expected to decline slightly in the short term due to the bumper summer harvest supply, but it
Visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here that the United Nations hopes to see China make bigger contribution in world affairs and establish a stronger partnership with the country. Ban made the remarks when holding talks ...
Xu Caihou, vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), said here Wednesday that China-Japan relations are developing smoothly and their political foundation is consolidating continuously. Meeting with a delegation from t ...
Three rail lines - Line 10, the Olympic Extension and the Airport Line - are currently under test operation; and will open for trial operation simultaneously this month, according to a statement by Zhou Zhengyu, deputy head of the Beijing
The opening ceremony for the China-Uzbekistan section of the Central Asian gas pipeline was held on June 30 in Bukhara, an historic Central Asian city and ancient Islamic cultural centre. That same day, the first joints of the China-Uzbekis ...
