BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China National Gold Group Corp. (CNGGC) said Monday that its first-half sales surged 61.44 percent year on year to 49.45 billion yuan (7.85 billion U.S. dollars), fulfilling 61.8 percent of its annual target. The Beijing-b...
BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China has initiated an emergency response and early-warning plan for disaster relief in order to cope with the severity of typhoon Haikui, according to a circular issued by the National Commission for Disaster Reduction on...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Greg Watson has promoted solar power around the world for years. I work in green [technology] for an international development bank, [and] Im always saying, Look, the costs are down, there are all these incentives, really it makes ec...
Ohio Lake Erie, the smallest of North Americas five Great Lakes, supplies fresh drinking water to an estimated 11 million people in Ohio, Michigan and southern Ontario province, Canada. Yet sometimes pollution, both from industrial waste and farm-che...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it expected to receive 5.75 billion U.S. dollars from the latest sale of the American International Group (AIG) stock, 750 million dollars more than initially estimated, as the unde...
The Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission. The U.S. space agency is preparing for the rover to land on the Red Planet on Monday [August 6 at 5:31 UTC]. Curiosity has traveled some 566 million kilome...
BAGHDAD, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces foiled a prison break attempt in a major prison in west of Baghdad after they discovered an unfinished tunnel dug by the inmates, a Justice Ministry official said on Sunday. The guards of Baghdad Cent...
LONDON, July 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Ye Shiwen showed that her world record display in the women's 400 meters medley was no flash in the pan when she clocked the fastest time in the heats for the 200 meters event on Monday morning. The 16-year-old was...
BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua)-- When a customer fumbled with a touch-and-go machine at a bank in downtown Beijing, a smiling receptionist jokingly asked him if he was a spy. You must be an employee from another bank trying to study our intelligent banking...
FUZHOU, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Gales and rainstorms lashed coastal regions in east China when two typhoons made landfall in less than 10 hours from Thursday to Friday morning, forcing over 300,000 people to evacuate. Strong tropical storm Saola, weakenin...
BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A government-backed project aimed at promoting the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer has kicked off in 14 provincial-level regions, according to the project's organizers. Lung, breast, colorectal, upper digestive tra...
BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Securities regulators on Friday confirmed that the State Council, or China's cabinet, has approved a plan to expand pilot zones for the new third board, a new over-the-counter (OTC) equity market, to shore up emerging busi...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Fostering a strong U.S. economy started with building a strong U.S. middle class, and economic fairness was critical to the nation's recovery, U.S. President Barack Obama said here on Friday. Speaking at the White House...
MADRID, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish government on Friday unveiled its new savings plan, expecting to cut a total of 102 billion euros (125 billion U.S. dollars) of spending by 2014, in an effort to balance the strained public finances. The biennia...
India is facing its first drought in three years, with this year's monsoon rains down by nearly 20 percent. In a report issued late Thursday, the Indian Meteorological Department said more than half of India has received deficient rainfall between Ju...
