It seems to be no secret that US President Barack Obama is deeply mired in his country’s economic mess. Recovery is painfully slow, unemployment (and under-employment) persistently soaring. The debt crisis is profound, while the…
Category: China
BEIJING – A senior official with the International Labour Organization (ILO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, spoke highly of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s pledge to promote employment and social security for all citizens….
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Monday met with visiting Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan to enhance the bilateral economic ties. During his visit, the minister and Azerbaijan’s Vice Premier Abid Sharifov jointly presided…
The number of Chinese Internet users hit 485 million at the end of June, with microblogging and group-buying posting the highest user growth rates, a Chinese government Internet statistical body said on Tuesday. The number…
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping vowed to crush any attempt to undermine stability in Tibet in a speech on Tuesday marking 60 years since China cemented control over the remote Himalayan region. Mr Xi spoke…
A clash at a police station that left at least four people dead in western China’s restive Xinjiang region was ‘an organised terrorist attack’, a government official was quoted saying in state media on Tuesday….
China executed two former vice-mayors from two booming eastern cities for taking millions of dollars in bribes, the Supreme Court and state media said on Tuesday, as the government strives to show it is being…
The Chinese Communist Party has been running the largest country in the world for 62 years. How has it done? We all know the facts: In 1949 when the Communist Party took over, China had…
China’s largest search engine, Baidu, has begun offering downloads of its new Internet browser, which boasts its own collection of 30,000″ apps” that can quickly connect users to online games, videos and other tools. A beta…
China should relax controls on its capital accounts and let its currency, renminbi, achieve “basic convertibility” over the next 5 years amid its push for the deeper internationalization of the currency, a senior executive of…