REYKJAVIK, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- China will launch its first international Arctic cooperation and research institute in Shanghai, sources attending a Sino-Iceland workshop told reporters here. The workshop on Arctic studies was held Friday as part of t...
NANNING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An oil spill triggered by typhoon Kai-Tak in the south China city of Beihai has been cleaned up, according to a local official. Typhoon Kai-Tak, the 13th tropical storm of the year, has left one dead and two missing in Gu...
CHENGDU, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A senior Taiwan affairs official for the Chinese mainland has called for those representing grassroots public opinion on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to make more efforts to promote cross-Strait exchanges at the civili...
BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's securities regulator said here Sunday that it will launch the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) for listed companies at a proper time after further improving the draft regulation. The China Securities Regulator...
DALI, Yunnan, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A group of 13 children drew widespread attention in China last week by helping their parents claim wages held in arrears. The children, the youngest of whom was five, stood in a line in downtown Dali, a major tourist...
BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's steel output growth slowed in July and prices of steel products have continued to drop, according to data from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Crude steel production gained 4.2 percent year...
RUSTENBURG, South Africa Two days after the shootout at a mine in South Africa where 34 striking miners died, the atmosphere is still very heavy on the site, as the miners remain undeterred in their strike for a better salary. In addition to the 34 m...
DALLAS Officials in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding county of the same name are continuing to spray by land and air in an effort to suppress mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus. Health officials have reported more than 200 cases of fever cau...
The campaigns of presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and U.S. President Barack Obama are both focusing on economic issues during political stumps on Saturday. Romney's running mate, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, said Repub...
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A hacker on Friday revealed a security flaw that he claimed could make Apple's iPhone particularly vulnerable to text message cheating. The flaw has existed since iPhone was first launched in 2007, and is still not...
The political campaigns of U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sharpened their attacks against each other with heated discussions on taxes. Romney's decision to limit disclosures about his personal wealth to his 201...
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- With an Internet population larger than that of the United States and Japan combined, China saw its online shopping maintain an annual growth of 140 percent in sales since 2004, making it a powerhouse in driving up dom...
LONDON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Kobe Bryant will lead a bunch of big names from the U.S. Olympic basketball team to tour in China after the London Olympics. Bryant will fly directly from London to Beijing to kick off his journey that will start from Jina...
LONDON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Wei Jizhong, the president of the international federation of volleyball, attributed China's loss in the Olympic women's quarterfinals to the mistake of their coach. The Chinese team, coached by Yu Juemin, finished fifth i...
IRKUTSK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- An international film festival opened Friday in Russia's small Siberian city of Kansk, attracting 1,460 applicant works, including five from Russia. In the nine-day International Kansk video festival, 55 films, made by di...
