BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The average wholesale price of pork from Aug. 13 to 19 saw a week-on-week drop of 1.4 percent, according to the Ministry of Commerce. It was the second consecutive drop in
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) on Thursday reported a 61.4 percent year-on-year increase in its first-half profit after tax. For the Jan-June peri
Five needy college students in Central China's Hubei Province are being denied further financial aid because they never expressed their thanks to the benefactors who helped them pay their bills last y
Nowadays residents in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province don't need to worry being caught without an umbrella in public areas when rain starts falling. That's because the “Love and Care Umbrell
An investor shows his open hand signalling five at a stock brokerage in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 23, 2007. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index surpassed the 5,000 mark for
BEIJING, Aug. 23 --The Shanghai stock market edged up yesterday despite the unexpected announcement of an interest rate hike by the central bank late on Tuesday. The People's Bank of China raised the
Acar is burned on a roadin southern Peloponnese peninsula,Greece, Aug. 24, 2007.The number of people who have died in two violent fires raging in the Peloponnese has risen to 37, after the discovery o
A helicopter drops water on a fire at Mount Taygete in the Peloponnese in southern Greece, 24 Aug. 2007. Forty-one people were killed and an undetermined number of people missing in
Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq A man grieves after a relative was killed during clashes between U.S. forces and suspected insurgents in Baghdad's Shula distr
BEIJING, Aug. 23 -- Foreign food importers will be able to tell certified Chinese food products from fake ones thanks to a “CIQ“ mark that all legal food exports are required to carry on their pac