BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A civil emergency was declared in a central New Zealand city Friday after several older buildings collapsed during a 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked much of the island ...
New licensed products for the Beijing Games will hit the market to welcome the New Year and Spring Festival.Over 50 kinds of products will go on sale soon, with half of them in the 'very affordable' r...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday it has awarded the 2008 Games Internet and mobile-phone platform rights in China to the digital arm of State broadcaster CCTV.It sold the over...
CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. media group Tribune announced that it has completed its going-private transaction and will cease trading on the New York Stock Exchange at market close Thursday. Sam ...
URUMQI, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Tarim oil field in northwest China's Xinjiang is expected to produce 15.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, up 40 percent year-on-year, company sources sai...
MANILA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a 100-million-U.S. dollar loan to expand Lae Port, the largest and most important port in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the bank sai...
The traditional Chinese festival Dongzhi, or midwinter in English, falls on this Saturday. Chinese people normally eat dumplings to mark this occasion. The reason why they eat dumplings is to protect ...
BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The market capitalization of 194 companies listed on the Shenzhen small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) board surpassed 883.6 billion yuan (120 billion U.S. dollars) a...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Congress passed on Wednesday the nation's first gun control law since 1994, months after it was first introduced to the legislature in response to April's Virg...
Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations GAZA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Several Israeli army tanks and armored vehicles pulled out from central Gaza Strip on Thursday after killing seven Palestinian mili...