China will raise one-year deposit and loan interest rates by 27 basis points to 3.60 percent and 7.02 percent respectively as of Aug. 22, the central bank announced on Tuesday. (File ...
Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and Party leader of the capital city, called for a breakthrough in improving the city's environment and...
LONDON- Boys like blue, girls like pink and there isn't much anybody can do about it, researchers said on Monday in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based color pr...
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's Transportation Ministry ordered Tuesday Hyundai Motor Co. to recall 6,286 Veracruz sport utility vehicles (SUV) on South Korean market due to a fault in engine...
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...