Beijing and Shanghai yesterday set ambitious and identical economic growth targets of 9 per cent annually for the next five years while pledging to improve the quality of life for their residents.Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan said the highlights of the five…
Four Chinese Muslim pilgrims were killed and four others were slightly injured in a haj stampede in Saudi Arabia that claimed lives of 362 people on Thursday. All the injured have been discharged from hospital, said Chang Yi, head of Chinas Consulate-Ge…
Founders of the United States House of Representatives China Working Group are in China for their first visit since the establishment of the group last June.Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, and Rick Larsen, a Democrat from Washington State, said t…
BEIJING, Jan. 13 -- Road accidents, the No 1 killer in China, are expected to decrease during the festival season thanks to an ongoing national road safety campaign. Thirty-one inspection teams from the Ministry of Public Security have been sent to a…
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday urged world governments to redouble efforts to carry out the blueprint their leaders agreed upon last September to remake the United Nations. "Of course, these cr…
BRUSSELS, Jan. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The leaders of the European Parliament agreed on Thursday to set up a temporary committee to investigate allegations of the transport and illegal detention of prisoners by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Europea…
BEIJING, Jan.12 -- When the rest of us are happily ensconced in our cosy environs, they are out there in the freezing cold. For they have a job to do. They have the responsibility to make the streets look brighter and more colourful. We can see them …
BEIJING, Jan.12 -- Archaeologists have discovered 117 cultural relics and ancient tombs during the construction of the Beijing section of the south-to-north water diversion project. Teams have recently braved cold winds at farmland near Nanzheng Vill…
China warned Japan on Thursday that a possible visit by former Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui could further raise tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.A Tokyo newspaper said on Wednesday Lee planned to travel to Japan in May, and Japans Chief Cabinet Secretar…
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you have a question for the head of the nations largest school system, you might consider sending him an e-mail. The address isnt hard to find.Joel Klein, chancellor of New York City schools, speaks to an 11th grade American history …
BEIJING, Jan.12 -- A national study has found that smoking an addiction affecting 24 per cent of the Chinese population is still one of the greatest dangers to peoples health. The behaviour and lifestyle report said that male smokers, who number 300 …
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Among every hundred Chinese people, 7.4 are surnamed "Li," dubbing the most popular family name in China, said a survey supported by Chinas National Natural Science Foundation. Following "Li," "…
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Miriam Archibong remembers the food offerings her high school cafeteria used to serve for vegetarians: bland salads and greasy cheese pizza.But salads are "not sufficient to survive," she says. "Cheese pizza -- th…
Chinas Ministry of Health yesterday announced the countrys eighth human case of H5N1 bird flu.The infected patient was a 6-year-old boy surnamed Ouyang in Guiyang County of Central Chinas Hunan Province, according to a report released by the ministry.Th…
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A Pennsylvania public school district will abandon its practice of teaching "intelligent design" before lessons on evolution after a federal judge ruled that the concept is "the progeny of creationism.&quo…
