WASHINGTON, May 8 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Park Geun- hye on Wednesday vowed at the U.S. congress to push forward trust- building on the Korean peninsula. I will remain steadfast in pushing forward a process of trust- building on the Korean...
SANTO DOMINGO, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Haiti's former president Jean Bertrand Aristide testified in court Wednesday in the capital Port- au-Prince in the April 2000 murder of a prominent journalist. The rarely-seen Aristide arrived at court at 8 am local t...
MANAGUA, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The presidents of three Central American nations -- Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador -- agreed Wednesday to create a tri-national development zone in the Gulf of Fonseca, which all of the three share. In an official decl...
A gas tanker truck has exploded on a highway north of Mexico City, killing at least 22 people, including ten children. Authorities say at least 36 people were injured in the blast. Officials say the explosion happened early Tuesday in the Mexico City...
Malaysian police have threatened to arrest participants in a rally being organized to protest results of an election the opposition says was marred by massive fraud. National police chief says the protest to be held late Wednesday is illegal because...
葡萄牙成功出售10年期国债 LISBON, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Portugal on Tuesday successfully sold 10-year bonds for the first time since international lenders granted the country a 78-billion-euro bailout two years ago, representing a milestone in...
U.S. officials believe North Korea has removed two mid-range missiles from imminent-launch status, in an apparent further easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula. Speaking anonymously late Monday, Washington defense officials said Pyongyang recent...
美国务卿克里抵达俄罗斯 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Russia for talks on the war in Syria and other issues. He is scheduled to meet Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Later, Kerry will hold a full...
中国私人飞机市场繁荣发展 Private plane ownership is taking off in China. A one-engine ultra light plane costs about 195,000 US dollars. A prospective customer has come from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, to Beijing to buy this ultra light jet...
阿里巴巴集团投资新浪微博 E-commerce giant Alibaba has purchased an 18-percent stake of China's popular micro logging service Sina Weibo for 586 million US dollars. Alibaba also holds the option of increasing its share of Weibo to 30-perce...
奥巴马重申对韩国的安全承诺 WASHINGTON, May 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday reiterated defense commitment to South Korea with both conventional and nuclear forces after talks with visiting South Korean leader Park Geun-h...
Overnight clashes between crowds of protesters and police in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka have left at least 10 people dead and hundreds injured. Police said protesters demanding new anti-blasphemy laws began pelting police with stones late Sunday,...
Election officials say Malaysia's ruling coalition has won a simple majority in parliamentary polls, extending its 56-year rule after a tough fight with a strengthened opposition alliance. Final results from Sunday's election show Prime Minister Naji...
North Korea says it has sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor after finding him guilty of committing what it says are hostile acts against the state. The official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday that Pae Jun-ho, known as Ke...
Police in Bangladesh have arrested the engineer who warned of cracks in an eight-story factory complex that collapsed last week（April 24）, killing more than 500 people. Abdur Razzak Khan last week warned of cracks in the building a day before it...
