BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday sent a message of condolences to U.S. President Barak Obama following the shooting incident at an elementary school in Newtown in the U.S. state of Connecticut on Friday. Hu express...
BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's meteorological authorities on Saturday issued a blue-coded alert for fog in most parts of the country's central and northern provinces from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Most parts of north China, southwest Ch...
TIANJIN, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 200 rare migrating birds have taken up residence at a wetland in north China's Tianjin Municipality despite heavy snow, a rare occurrence for this time of year, according to a local volunteer. The oriental white...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Air and road traffic in Beijing has been disrupted after snowfall on Thursday evening and into Friday. Two expressway sections near Beijing were closed after snow fell from around 7 p.m. on Thursday, and the Beijing Meteo...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Construction is to be suspended and use of official vehicles limited in cases where Beijing air quality plummets to extremely bad, under a new rule on curbing air pollution. The rule, to be enacted on Jan. 1, 2013, catego...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- A children's charity suspected of money laundering announced on Friday that it had provided a bank statement of its cash flow in 2011 to a third-party auditing agency, in the hope of clearing itself of public suspicion. T...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature will deliberate on draft amendments to laws on land management and trademarks during its bimonthly session, it was decided on Friday. It will also discuss a draft decision to strengthen Internet in...
NEW YORK U.S. President Barack Obama travels on Sunday to Newtown, Connecticut, in an effort to comfort a shattered town reeling from a school shooting that left 20 young children and six adults dead. A White House statement released Saturday said Ob...
TOKYO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The 46th Japan's House of Representatives election began at 7:00 a.m. local time Sunday. A total of 1,504 candidates will run for the 480 seats in lower house election. The ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) registered...
CAIRO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The first stage of the referendum of Egypt's draft constitution ended Saturday night at 11:00 p.m. local time (2100 GMT). Due to the high turnout, the closing time of the referendum was extended from 7:00 p.m. local time (1...
WHITE HOUSE U.S. President Barack Obama wiped away tears Friday, as he offered government support and emotional support to the families of those killed in a mass shooting in a school in Connecticut. Obama said he was reacting as a parent, not a presi...
PRETORIA, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The whereabouts of former president Nelson Mandela who is receiving treatment for a lung infection have puzzled journalists who are scrambling to get first- hand as well as first-time information about the anti-apartheid...
HOUSTON, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- A student was arrested Friday for allegedly threatening to shoot inside a school in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, local media reported. Police arrested Sammy Chavez, 18, in the early morning at a residence in west Bartlesvi...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Congress would never give up its control over raising the federal government's debt limit to enhance U.S. fiscal sustainability, John Boehner, speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, said here on Thursday....
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Baowen was on Thursday elected chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League (CDL), a non-Communist political party with about 230,000 members. The party concluded its 11th National Congress on th...
