China launched a communications satellite PAKSAT-1R for Pakistan at 0:15 a.m. Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on Aug. 12, 2011. Photo: Xinhua China launched a communications satellite PAKSAT-1R…
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KUNMING – An official in Southwest China’s Yunnan province has been dismissed from his post after images showing him taking part in group sex were posted online, local disciplinary authorities confirmed on Thursday. The Kunming…
China’s stocks opened higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.46 percent to open at 2,593.4. The Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.48 percent higher at 11,683.62. Xinhua
The Chinese currency Renminbi, or the yuan, gained 19 basis points to a record high of 6.3972 per US dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading system. In China’s foreign exchange spot…
China is not at risk of a hard landing in spite of an economic slowdown, said a senior official at the country’s top economic planner, warning that the loose monetary policy by the United States…
Medical care workers support a man injured in a coach rollover accident in a hospital in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 11, 2011. Photo: Xinhua Over 20 people were injured, including two in critical condition, after…
File photo of China’s refitted aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier left its shipyard at Dalian Port in northeast Liaoning Province on Wednesday morning to start its first sea trial. Photo: Xinhua Chinese and American military…
BEIJING – Chinese and Japanese people lack direct knowledge of each other, according to a poll, and analysts say this indicates much can be gained by encouraging people-to-people exchanges. “Exchanges between China and Japan should…
XICHANG, Sichuan – China launched a communications satellite PAKSAT-1R for Pakistan at 0:15 am Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China’s Sichuan province. The satellite was carried by a Long March-3B carrier…
‘Friendship poll’ shows changing attitudes among Chinese, Japanese BEIJING – There has been a sharp drop in the number of people in China and Japan harboring feelings of friendship toward the other country following a…