DHAKA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The death toll due to drowning, disease and snakebite during the current flooding in Bangladesh rose to 554 till Saturday morning, Health Ministry statistics said. The Flood...
LUSAKA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Seychelles has been readmitted to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), adding the number of SADC members to 15, Zambia Times reported on Saturday.Zambian Pres...
Passengers carried by Chinese airlines rose 16.7 percent over the same period last year to 86.7 million in the first half of 2007, the civil aviation regulator said Saturday. (File Photo)Photo Gallery...
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>> NEW DELHI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 42 people, including five women and seven students, were killed and about 50 injured as twin blasts rocked tw...
A picture released by the official Cuban newspaper Granma Aug. 14, 2006 shows Cuban leader Fidel Castro receiving a birthday gift from visiting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in his ...
China Netcom (File Photo)BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- China Netcom, the country's second largest fixed-line operator, saw its net profit fall 5.4 percent in the first half of 2007 under continued pres...
Beijing, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said over the weekend that its ratings and outlook on Bank of China Ltd. (BOC) were not affected by the bank's disclosure of its exp...
A still image taken from surveillance camera footage shows giant panda Yang Yang holding her newly born cub in her mouth in the zoo in Vienna August 23, 2007. [Photo: Reuters]The giant panda Yang Yang...
“Qin Road“, one of the largest TV series of this year, with an investment of more than 3,000 million yuan, started shooting in city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia on Wednesday.The 35-episode TV series...
BEIJING, Aug. 26 -- Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Friday he was confident of victory in the “special war“ against poor product quality despite its highly demanding targets. “Although the go...