SYDNEY In Australia, conservative politicians want to tighten the controls on foreign investors buying farms and businesses. The calls for more scrutiny on sales to foreigners come as a Chinese property conglomerate bids for a 15,000 hectare farming...
The U.S. consumer watchdog agency has imposed its biggest fine ever - on Google, the popular Internet search engine. The Federal Trade Commission fined the American technology giant $22.5 million Thursday as settlement of charges that it violated peo...
LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The investigation into the match-throwing scandal in Olympic badminton competition is not over yet. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has asked for further inquiry to know if coaches and team officials were involved...
LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Defending Olympic champion Lin Dan dropped a game to Japanese shuttler Sasaki Sho before winning the hard battle Thursday evening, so as to advance into the semifinal of men's singles. Both left-handed players, their compet...
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A total of 46,653 fires broke out in China in the first seven months of the year, leaving 399 people dead and another 258 injured, the Ministry of Public Security said Wednesday. The number of fires and the death toll saw...
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday started to review anti-dumping measures it imposed on chloroprene rubber imported from a Japanese company, the Ministry of Commerce said. The move came after the ministry received complaints that Japan E...
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's farm produce prices continued to rise last week in the wake of strong rainfall across the country, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday. The wholesale prices of 18 types of vegetables in 36 cities rose for...
HANGZHOU, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Haikui had been downgraded to a severe tropical storm as of 4 p.m. Wednesday in east China's Zhejiang province, the provincial flood control and draught relief headquarters said. Typhoon Haikui, which made landfal...
NEW DELHI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from communal violence in the northeast Indian state of Assam has risen to 77 after four more bodies were recovered Wednesday, reported Press Trust of India. Two bodies, that of a male and a female from th...
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Wade Michael Page, the lone suspect in last weekend's shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, died of a self-inflicted wound, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) said Wednesday. At a televised news conference, FBI...
Americans knew it was hot in July, and now the government is saying last month was the hottest on record. U.S. weather officials said Wednesday the average temperature across the contiguous 48 states in the country - excluding the geographically sepa...
LONDON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- China was beaten by the world No. 1 U.S. in straight sets in the women's volleyball tournament of London Olympics on Wednesday. The Chinese, once champion in 2004 Athens Games and bronze medal winner in Beijing Games, lost...
LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Jike leapt over the barriers, ran to the podium, knelt down and kissed the top. That might be the most emotional moment for the newly crowned Olympic champion on Thursday. For the rest of the time, Zhang appeared calm...
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese official who regulates investment activities in the country said Tuesday the government's measures encouraging private funds to enter more sectors have worked and helped stabilize investment growth this year. The...
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated more than 20,000 hectares of land to support the construction of low-income housing this year, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. The nation plans to distribute 47,600 hec...
