A bunch of mass activities and sports-related events spread all over the country on Wednesday besides those in the heart of Beijing as the Chinese capital city marked one year to go before the 2008 Ol...
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank admitted on Wednesday that the country is coming under increasing pressure from price hikes, and acknowledged inflation risks are “worthy of attentio...
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese central bank said on Wednesday it would put the task of preventing the national economy from overheating as the top priority of current macro control. The country's...
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 rocked western part of Java Island of Indonesia early Thursday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>JAKARTA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- A st...
TOKYO, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that he hopes the second Inter-Korean summit in late August could help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. While the d...
China's Gini coefficient, a standard measure of a country's overall income inequality, rose to 0.473 in 2004 from 0.4 in 1993, according to a report by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) released yesterd...
Let the party begin. The Beijing Olympics are just a year away.Sprawling Tiananmen Square was the center of celebrations for thousands of ordinary Chinese and hundreds of Olympic officials as countdow...
Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co Ltd (CAC), a company affiliated with China Aviation Industry Corp I (AVIC I), yesterday signed a US$300-million manufacturing contract with Vought Aircraft Indus...
COSCO Asia docks at Tianjin Five Continents International Container Terminal in northern China on August 8, 2007. [Photo: Xinhua]Asia's first 10,050-TEU container vessel, named COSCO Asia, which is do...
Militants freed eight foreign hostages, six Russians, one British and one Bulgarian in Nigeria's southeastern oil-rich Niger River Delta, local police said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, the capital c...