The report delivered by General Secretary Hu Jintao at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China laid out the new objective of government reform to “accelerate the reform of the adm...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso speaks during the ceremony marking the enlargement of the Schengen area, in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, Dec. 21, 2007. Nine European Union (EU) count...
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The dollar continued to rise against the euro on Thursday after a reported showed that the U.S. economy expanded at its fastest pace in four years during the summer. The ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced Friday that Patrick J. Healy, managing director at Hellman Friedman LLC, resigned from the board of directors. Pedestrians walk pa...
The prudent fiscal policy the authorities have said they will pursue to help cool off the economy will naturally lead to less public spending on construction projects next year.This means that as the ...
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here Thursday the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) should declare all of its atomic programs when the disabling of the DPRK's nuclear faciliti...
The Czech Republic officially lifted its border checks at midnight Thursday, becoming a new member of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone.As frontier checks have formally ended, Czech citizens can tr...
Jean-Bernard Levy, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi, speaks during a news conference to present the company's 2006 full year results in Paris Mar. 7, 2007.(Xinhu...
China's first home-grown regional jet, the ARJ21-700, rolls off the production line at the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory in east China's Shanghai on Dec. 21, 2007. The jet's name, “Xiang F...
China will raise the one-year deposit interest rate by 27 basis points to 4.14 percent and the lending rate by 18 basis points to 7.47 percent as of December 21, the central bank said Thursday.This is...