HARBIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two people died from injuries sustained in the fall into a 10-meter-deep pit caused by a road cave-in in northeast China's Harbin city, local authorities said Wednesday. The other two who also fell into the pit are still i...
BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The ratio of income earned by urbanites to that of rural residents is about 5.2, said a blue paper released by a major government think tank on Tuesday. According to The Urban Blue Book: China City Development Report No....
BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic delegation of the Chinese mainland returned to Beijing on Tuesday after clinching 38 gold medals in the London Games. State Councilor Liu Yandong welcomed the returning delegation at the Beijing Capital Intern...
PARIS Europe's two biggest economies have managed to dodge recession, but newly published statistics offer grim news for the region as a whole. New figures released by Eurostat statistical agency show the economies of both the eurozone and the 27-mem...
The United States is starting this week to take applications from young illegal immigrants who want to stay in the country for the next two years to work and go to school without the threat of deportation. President Barack Obama eased the country's i...
U.S. officials say cooler weather and recent rain showers in the drought-stricken Midwest have largely stabilized crop conditions, but add that the drought is not over. The U.S. Agriculture Department said in a statement Tuesday that rainfall has bee...
LONDON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China won the men's table tennis team final against South Korea on Wednesday, making a clean sweep of gold medals for the second consecutive Olympics. It was the 24th gold medal that China won at the Olympic table tennis co...
LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- For those, who came to see a close game in table tennis women's final of the London Olympic Games on Tuesday, they may get a little disappointed. The match is intense, but by no means close. Chinese women players dropped on...
LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi produced a stunning last 300 meters to be proclaimed Olympic 1,500 meter champion on Tuesday night. Makhoufi finished ahead of Leonel Manzano of the USA and Morocco's Abdaali Iguider and deserved...
LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China clinched the women's Olympic team table tennis gold medal here Tuesday, after fighting off a strong challenge from Japan to win the final 3-0. It was the 23rd gold medal that China won at the Olympic table tennis comp...
LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shuttlers, spearheaded by Lin Dan, won two more Olympic events on Sunday afternoon, completing a clean sweep of five gold medals. In a match that attracted most attention started between Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei fr...
LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Usain Bolt set a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds as he won the 100 meters gold medal on Sunday night. Bolt finished ahead of fellow Jamaican, Yohan Blake, who finished in 9.75 and Justin Gattlin, who ran 9.79, one hundre...
LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese badminton players Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng beat their rivals 2-0 Sunday afternoon, and clinched gold medals in men's doubles in the Wembley Arena. These are the first gold medal won by Chinese in that event. This mean...
HONG KONG, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- A 15-day exhibition, under the theme of China's First Manned Space Docking Mission, was opened here on Sunday morning by three Chinese astronauts of Shenzhou-9 mission. The three astronauts -- Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and...
BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 18:47 Beijing Time on Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of about 30 kilom...
