North Korean leader Kim Jong-il insisted Tuesday that his regime’s friendship with China remains strong and steady despite a leadership transition and external pressure. Meeting with a high-level Chinese delegation in Pyongyang to mark the…
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Project serves as springboard to enter European market, reports Zhang Haizhou in Ankara. It was noontime and the temperature was more than 30 C on this typical summer day in Pamukova, in mountainous west Turkey….
American diver David Boudia believes the U.S. team can challenge China’s stars for gold medals in their home pool at the world aquatic championships starting this weekend in Shanghai. The U.S. has struggled to keep…
China’s economy grew at a slower pace last quarter, a moderation that may ease inflation pressures in the world’s second-biggest economy. Gross domestic product expanded 9.5 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said…
DALIAN, Liaoning – Zhang Zhiwu and his wife Hou Yingqian, both 63, have become local celebrities since their return from a nine-month multi-country roadtrip in their motor home. The pair clocked up more than 23,500…
China secured its first top management post in the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, in a move aimed at recognising Beijing’s growing clout in the global economy. New IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde named Chinese…
BEIJING – China blasted off a new data relay satellite, Tianlian I-02, on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan province. The new satellite will bolster the country’s satellite communication network for…
Beijing – President Hu Jintao encouraged young people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits to take part in more exchanges and to cooperate with one another while he attended an event on Tuesday aimed…
WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Tuesday that its Managing Director Christine Lagarde has proposed the appointment of Zhu Min, currently Special Advisor to the Managing Director, to the position of IMF’s Deputy…
BEIJING – A new oil leak was reported in northern China’s Bohai Bay, the third since June. The leak occurred at the Suizhong 36-1 oilfield at 1:30 am on Tuesday due to a malfunction at…