BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhuanet)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's “Person of the Year“ for 2007 on Wednesday for bringing stability and renewed status to Russia.
JAKARTA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has linked open sky policy negotiations with the EU to the bloc's ban on Indonesian airplanes, effectively grounding the negotiations for the pre
China's central and local governments recorded 4.82 trillion yuan (654 billion U.S. dollars) in fiscal revenue during the first 11 months of this year, up 33.5 percent from the same period of last yea
Rail staff prepare to remove damaged carriages after a train derailed near Mehrabpur, 400 km (250 miles) from Karachi, Dec. 19, 2007. At least 50 people lost their lives in a train accident in Pakista
JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Knesset (parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Wednesday authorized declaring a “special security situation“ in Sderot and other communities alon
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A fire broke out Wednesday morning in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House compound, which houses the Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial off
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council ended Wednesday's consultations on the future status of the Serbian province of Kosovo with no conclusions due to major differen
A customer walks in front of China Minsheng Bank Corp in Beijing.[Photo: Baidu]China Minsheng Bank Corp will revamp its financial center to focus on five sectors for more customer-oriented services t
Movie-goers get up close to Doraemon and its cartoon friends at the premiere of the animated film “Doraemon the Magic“ in Beijing on Sunday, January 20, 2008. [Photo: cnsphoto]Once a pan-Asian phe
Arreon Carbon UK Ltd and Credit Suisse International signed a deal at the weekend with two subsidiaries of Shanghai Baosteel to buy emission reduction credits worth an estimated 94 million euros (US$1