NEW YORK - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, US President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: “Childrens do learn.“US President...
BEIJING, Sept. 28 -- In the past eight months, China has shut down 253 small coal-fired generating units that were heavy energy consumers and emitters, and replaced them with high-efficiency generator...
BEIJING, Sept. 28 -- Foreign and private investors now contribute more than half of China's industrial output, the statistics bureau said yesterday.Relaxed ownership rules in the manufacturing sector ...
YANGON, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar people and monks kept on staging demonstrations in the country's biggest city of Yangon Thursday afternoon, the second day after the imposition of a curfew and a b...
The World Bank Group pledged on Thursday that it will contribute a record 3.5 billion dollars from its income to provide grants and credits for the world's poorest countries.The pledge, which will be ...
After touching down in London, David was driven directly to see his father in hospital [Daily Mail]Soccer ace David Beckham has jetted back to Britain from the U.S. to be by the side of his father who...
When it comes to what pays on U.S. television, talk doesn't come cheap -- nor apparently does a loud mouth.Financial magazine Forbes on Thursday published a list of the highest-paid TV celebrities, wi...
Pedestrians walk past the NASDAQ Market site in Times Square in New York Sept. 20, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo Gallery>>>BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Following the New ...
HONG KONG, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index went up 373.45 points, or 2.24 percent, to close Friday's trading at 17,017.94. The H-shares index, initiated in August 1994 and r...
An injured victim of a collapsed bridge receives treatment at the 121 military hospital in Vietnam's Mekong Delta's Can Tho city September 27, 2007. Rescue workers found eight more bodies on Thursday ...