“Alone in a foreign land as a foreign guest, I miss my family all the more on every festive day.“ This line of prose was composed by a Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet, and today, it strikes a chord wi...
BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management Ltd. announced it will raise up 22 billion RMB yuan (2.87 billion U.S. dollars) under the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QD...
BEIJING, Dec. 21 -- Half of Chinese residents say consumer prices are “too high and unacceptable,“ according to a new survey from the People's Bank of China. It's the first time in three years tha...
Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protest outside the M&M World Store in New York's Time's Square December 20, 2007. PETA is calling for a boycott of M&Ms, Twix candy bars ...
The Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer (L) symbolically cuts a bar with his Slovak counterpart Robert Kalinak in Stary Hrozenkov, Czech, on the eve of the two countries accession to the Schengen area...
Beijing's air quality was one of the key issues addressed at the year-ending meeting of the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board last week, with Beijing promising cleaner skies next summe...
Actor Huang Xiaoming poses with the trophy at the Star of the Year awards ceremony held by a magazine in Beijing on Wednesday, December 19, 2007. [Photo: sina.com]Nearly one hundred entertainers gathe...
Yearender 2007by Xinhua writer Wu Qiong BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported a year of prosperity. Annual profits were forecast to surge 30 percent to nearly a...
BRASILIA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Brazil will come up with a policy to promote exports to Asian, especially Chinese markets in 2008, the country's export and investment authorities said in a statement Thu...
BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- In the most deadly year since 1994, at least 64 journalists were killed in 2007 with Iraq the most dangerous place to report worldwide, a U.S. media watchdog said on Mo...