China's securities regulator has blocked Goldman Sachs Group Inc's plan to buy a stake in Guangdong Midea Electric Appliances Co, the Chinese manufacturer said yesterday.Analysts said the rejection pr...
China's State Council Information Office holds a press conference about the low-rent housing system, a major means to solve housing difficulty for urban low-income families, in Beijing on ...
A volcano has erupted on uninhabited Fernandina Island, at far west of Ecuador's Galapagos Island chain, Ecuador's Geophysics Institute reported Wednesday.The National Galapagos Park authorities said ...
A statue of South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela is seen silhouetted after its unveiling in London's Parliament Square August 29, 2007. Britain honoured Mandela on Wednesday by unveiling a b...
China's state assets watchdog has called on major state-owned firms to meet energy saving and pollution reduction targets a year ahead of schedule.The 154 central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) with h...
BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- German carmaker Volkswagen and U.S. computer company Apple are discussing the possibility of producing a car together. “The two companies are in the early stages of t...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Taliban would set free the remaining seven South Korean hostages in Afghanistan later Thursday, said Haji Zahir, a local tribal elder engaged in talks. ...
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on Sept. 10, a local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported on Thursday. The executive committee o...
A man tries to board a taxi outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York Sept. 5, 2007. Drivers of New York's yellow taxis went on strike on Wednesday over plans to install tracking systems int...
DALIAN, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Shang Fulin, head of China's securities market watchdog, said Thursday that the preparations for setting up stock-index futures have been basically finished. Shang, chairma...