China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang (center) waves to onlookers as he is accompanied by Hong Kong stock exchange Chairman Ronald Arculli (left) and Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang (right) on a visit to the…
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US Vice President Joe Biden. File photo: Xinhua US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Beijing Monday, starting a four-day China tour that will see him meet with Chinese leaders on hot issues such as…
Wang Yongping, former spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, takes questions from journalists after a July 24 news conference on the train crash near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. [Provided to China Daily] BEIJING – The Ministry…
BEIJING – The Chinese military on Tuesday refuted a report that Chinese intelligence officials were allowed by Pakistan to photograph the crashed US Blackhawk helicopter from the Osama bin Laden raid and take wreckage samples…
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (L) addresses an economic forum in Hong Kong August 17, 2011. [Edmond Tang/chinadaily.com.cn] HONG KONG – Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, at a forum being held here on Wednesday,…
A Long March-4B carrier rocket lifts off carrying a maritime satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 16, 2011. The orbiter, Haiyang-2, is for the supervision and survey of…
BEIJING – The highest court in China says citizens have the right to sue any government department that refuses to release information that the law makes open to the public. According to a judicial interpretation…
BEIJING – China’s seawaters are at risk of being contaminated by radioactive materials coming from the Japanese nuclear power plant that was seriously damaged in the large earthquake that struck in March, China’s ocean watchdog…
BEIJING – Vice-Premier Li Keqiang starts his three-day official visit to Hong Kong on Tuesday, a visit which officials and experts believe signals the central government’s commitment to create more business and investment opportunities. This…
Authorities have enough assets to repay, finance ministry says BEIJING – Local government debt is “controllable”, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday, easing fears that bad loans could derail the world’s second-largest economy. “Judging…