America will almost break the debt contracts

The situation of negotiation for American debt turned bad to worse. As the reported, the negotiation between White House and the Congress broke again at July 22. Barak Obama could not hind his anger anymore…

Cleaning Cash

For Xu Maiyong, a former deputy mayor of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and Jiang Renjie, a former deputy mayor of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, their common ground is not merely that they were both sentenced to death…

Foreign parents taking more disabled orphans

BEIJING – A growing number of Chinese orphans suffering disabilities or birth defects are finding homes with families overseas. Official figures show more than 4,900 foreigners registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ adoption service…

DPRK envoy to hold rare talks with US

BEIJING – Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will meet the top US envoy to the DPRK on Thursday, the first dialogue between the two governments since 2009. According…

Ministry to baby buyers: no sale

Eighty-nine rescued babies will not be returned to the people who bought them, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Wednesday, unlike the 29 who they gave back to the buyers in the last anti-trafficking…

Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink

The tap water hasn’t stopped running in Sichuan Province’s second-largest prefecture-level city, but nobody can drink it after the Mianyang environmental protection bureau on Wednesday warned against unsafe manganese, ammonia and nitrogen pollution afflicting about…

Wen orders swift, open probe into train crash

WENZHOU, Zhejiang – Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday ordered a swift and transparent probe into Saturday’s crash of two high-speed trains and asked that the result be made public. The crash in Wenzhou caused the…