YAN'AN, Shaanxi, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from an expressway collision between a bus and a tanker in northwest China has risen to 36, local police said Sunday. The accident happened at around 2 a.m. in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, when a doubl...
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Tembin and Bolaven are moving towards China's coasts and will bring gales and storms there on Sunday, the country's meteorological authority has forecast. The year's 14th typhoon, Tembin, was in the northeast of t...
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Winning rate for Beijing's car registration lottery has dropped to less than 2 percent in August, marking the lowest rate since the car plate lottery scheme was launched last year, local authorities said Sunday. Among the...
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- A swarm of earthquakes including one of 5.5-magnitude hit Southern California area near the Mexican border around noon Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quakes started to hit the area of Brawley at...
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- China Construction Bank, the country's second largest state-owned bank, said its net profit rose 14.57 percent to 106.49 billion yuan (about 16.9 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of this year. The bank's business r...
TAMPA, Florida Members of the Republican Party are gathering in Tampa, Florida amid the threat of bad weather for their week-long U.S. presidential nominating convention. Convention organizers have canceled their Monday program because of the approac...
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao on Friday greeted the Chinese mainland's delegation to the London Olympic Games and called for more efforts in promoting scientific development of sport. Hu extended congratulations to the athletes, co...
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Former French Open winner Li Na beat American Venus Williams 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 on Saturday to reach the final of the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters. The ninth-seeded Chinese, the losing Montreal finalist last week, w...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Brazil international playmaker Oscar has declared himself ready to debut for Chelsea in the team's Premier League season-opener against Wigan on Sunday. Oscar joined his new teammates at Stamford Bridge on Thursday...
HANGZHOU, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's east coast remains on alert Friday as a pair of typhoons threaten to wreak havoc. Typhoon Bolaven, the 15th typhoon of the year, was gaining force Friday and was forecast to reach the East China Sea on Sunday, th...
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A spokesman for China's work safety regulator said on Friday that coal mining remains a high-risk industry in the country despite improvements over the past decade. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Huang Yi, of...
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese people were more willing to keep foreign currencies and sell their yuan-denominated assets in July, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has indicated. Individuals and institutions exchang...
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- China will promote the application and industrialization of its self-developed audio-video coding standard (AVS+) in broadcasting and television, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said Friday....
India's government is hitting back at corruption allegations and urging opposition lawmakers to end protests that have shut down parliament for a fourth day. Opposition members have been calling for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation...
NEW YORK Most businesses in the United States are small, family-owned enterprises. Typically, a son or daughter joins a parents company but, increasingly, young entrepreneurs are hiring their parents. That's the case with Alexandra Ferguson's home de...
