BEIJING – Driving through China’s countryside a decade ago, it was not uncommon to see harsh-sounding family planning slogans painted on the sides of buildings. Frightening phrases like “one more baby means one more tomb” and…
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BEIJING – Though there appears to be a light at the end of the US debt crisis tunnel, the agreement reached over the weekend in Washington won’t remove concerns over a weaker dollar, which will…
BEIJING – Air transport associations and 21 airlines from home and abroad expressed strong opposition at a seminar on Monday against an EU plan to force countries into its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Starting Jan…
A powerboat leads a large fishing boat departing from a port in Sanya, South China’s Hainan province, Aug 1, 2011. Fishing vessels started operations after the South China Sea fishing ban was lifted on Monday,…
ATHENS – The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a strong force of stability and peace in China and across the globe, said Chinese Defense attache in Greece Li Jie and Greek officials during a reception…
BEIJING – A dozen escalators for the capital city’s Yizhuang subway line have been recalled because they have the same risk of malfunction as the one that took the life of a 13-year-old boy on…
GUIYANG – A lingering drought has caused water shortages for 4.28 million people in China, the country’s drought relief authority said on Monday. A farmer looks anxiously on Monday at peanut crops that have been…
NANNING – The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is seeing its most serious electricity shortage in the past two decades, leaving nearly 30 percent of the region’s demand for electricity unmet, local power authorities say. The…
BEIJING – A monitoring device that can photograph customers’ faces clearly started operating in large and medium-sized supermarkets and shops across the city on Monday, an officer of the municipal public security bureau said. The…
BEIJING – Madina, a fifth-grade Uygur girl from Hotan city, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, watched the dolphin show at Beijing Zoo on Monday afternoon with intense curiosity, just like other children in the aquarium….