China announced Monday to provide humanitarian materials worth 50 million yuan ($7.73 million) to the Libyan people. The move is made “to ease the humanitarian disaster of the Libyan people,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei…
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A teenage girl in Beijing who tried to commit suicide was under emergency treatment on Sunday, after receiving a call from her school informing her that she had been dismissed, as reported by the Beijing…
China’s cities are growing so fast that even the country’s military is getting the short end of the stick, state media reported, with unauthorised new roads cutting through barracks and tall new buildings hampering operations…
The first-ever Chinese citizen to fly a private plane around the world stopped in Xi’an, capital of the northwestern Shaanxi Province Monday and received a warm welcome. Chen Wei, a Chinese citizen living in the…
President Hu Jintao on Monday urged comprehensive efforts to push ahead the building of a modern armed police force and open up new prospects in the development of its capabilities. Hu, general secretary of the…
Prices of pork, the most consumed meat in China and also the main contributor to its rising inflation, are expected to stabilize by August, an official said. Wang Zhicai, the Agriculture Ministry’s director of animal…
China established diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Sudan Saturday and vowed to provide assistance to the best of its ability to develop the world’s newest nation. The joint communique on the establishment of…
Work to clean up the oil spill at the Penglai oilfield in Bohai Gulf is continuing despite China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and its partner ConocoPhillips China (COPC) claiming Wednesday that the clean-up was…
“Hello comrades!” Chairman Mao bids a traditional Marxist greeting to his audience. “You have worked so hard!” If it’s strange to see the late Mao address a modern-day audience in exotic Hainan Province, it’s because…
The United States will maintain its presence in the South China Sea but will show no prejudice toward any side involvedin the territorial dispute there, the top US military officer said on Sunday. US ‘won’t take sides’ in South China Sea Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, also expected the US and Chinese militaries to develop “moretangible relations” that match Beijing’s rising role and its deepening relations with Washington. “The worry, among others that I have, is that the ongoing incidents could spark amiscalculation, and an outbreak that no one anticipated,” Mullen said at a news conferenceat the start of his four-day visit to China on Sunday morning, referring to rising tensions in the South China Sea, where several nations in the region hold territorial claims. “We have an enduring presence here, we have an enduring responsibility. We seek tostrongly support the peaceful resolution of these differences,” he said. The visit came after the US and the Philippines held an 11-day joint naval exercise in theSouth China Sea. In another move, the US, Australia and Japan reportedly held a trilateral military exercise off the coast of Brunei near the South ChinaSea on Saturday. Meanwhile, China and the Philippines are trying to ease tensions, with the two foreign ministers agreeing on Friday in Beijing not to let disagreements affect “the broader picture of friendship and cooperation”. Mullen arrived in Beijing early on Sunday. His visit is in response to the trip to the US in May by Chief of the General Staff of thePeople’s Liberation Army Chen Bingde. On Monday, Mullen will hold talks with Chen, and the two generals will jointly meet reporters. The admiral is also due to meet other high-level Chinese government and military leaders including Vice-President Xi Jinping. On Sunday, Mullen told students at Renmin University of China after giving a speech…