BEIJING, Aug. 21 -- China's top economic planner yesterday said prices of only some categories of consumer goods have risen in the past few months, and assured consumers that the country had not enter
Just 23 days before the FIFA Women's World Cup on home soil, the Chinese team's preparations are far from satisfactory in most aspects and the recent two straight defeats to Australia have rung the re
Pen and notebook in hand in Edinburgh cafes, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spotted working on her new book: a detective novel.Rowling, who famously wrote initial drafts of her boy wizard s
A resident checks the damage after Hurricane Dean passed the Bull Bay area in Kingston August 20, 2007. A strengthening Hurricane Dean took aim at Mexico's Yucatan on Monday after battering Jamaica's
Lightning streaks across Cancun's night sky during a thunderstorm August 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean is due to make landfall on the Yucatan peninsula in about two days' time. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo
ABU DHABI, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will launch a pan-Gulf mail transportation company to carry postal mails and couriers across the GCC region, local newspaper Gulf News
BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- T-Mobile Netherlands, a branch of Deutsched Telekom,was cleared Monday by European regulators in the acquisition of telecommunictions company Orange Netherlands.In a st
Director Johnnie To attends a press conference of the 30th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) in Hong Kong, March 8, 2006. [File Photo:Reuters]Hong Kong director Johnnie To's latest film
Organizers demonstrate on Sunday, August 19, 2007, the process of a prayer ceremony, with 1,000 participants, which is to be held on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chengdu, southwest China's Si
CANBERRA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Australia's former terror suspect Mohamed Haneef on Tuesday won his court bid to get his Australian work visa back.The Australian Federal Court ruled that Immigration Min