BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The sulfur dioxide emission in China fell a year-on-year 0.88 percent in the first half of this year, the first decrease in several years, said China's top economic planne...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced Sunday that its net profits in the first half of 2007 rose by 65.3 percent from the same period of last year. (cnsphoto/file)BEIJING, Aug. ...
An Iranian made Qassed “smart bomb“ is seen at a munitions factory in Tehran August 26, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Sunday inaugurated a production line for man...
ATHENS, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The official death toll has risen to 52 in the unprecedented forest fires that have swept through the southern Peloponnese peninsula since Thursday.Four separate wildfire f...
BEIJING, Aug. 27 -- Shenzhen employers raised their salaries by about 10 percent at a weekend job fair at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center to help jobseekersmeet rising prices of food and hou...
BEIJING, Aug. 27 -- The central government will pour billions of yuan into special projects to help meet the country's energy-saving targets. Local officials are also about to come under increased pre...
A Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Classification One vehicle demonstrates its speed abilities at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland, Aug. 24, 2007. The vehicle has b...
Under mounting pressure from the United States, Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders have agreed to resolve major disputes that have long stalled the war-torn country's national reconciliation pro...
BEIJING, Aug. 27 -- Stock markets around the world are rallying in the wake of the Federal Reserve's decision to cut its lending rate to banks to help avert a credit crisis, Bloomberg News said.“Cle...
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Bank of Beijing would become the third Chinese city-level commercial bank to go public following Bank of Nanjing and Bank of Ningbo, as the regulator said it would meet ne...