BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese copyright official said on Tuesday that foreign providers received equal treatment during a massive government procurement of licensed software. From late 2010, the Chinese central and provincial governme...
NANNING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Border police in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have seized more than 2,600 Vietnamese who attempted to enter China illegally in the fist half of the year, sources with the police said Tuesday. A total of...
BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Tuesday said China is willing to cement a strategic partnership with Ukraine. He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Cen...
ROME, July 17 (Xinhua) -- President of Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas said here on Tuesday that Palestinians are ready to return to the negotiation table with Israel, and wished Italy takes action for the outcome of the peace proc...
CAPITOL HILL Global private banking giant HSBC has admitted that lax vigilance made it vulnerable to money laundering by Mexican drug cartels, as well as transactions involving Iran that are banned under U.S. law. HSBC managers pledged to do better i...
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Top policymakers of the U.S. Federal Reserve believed that risks to U.S. economic growth have increased, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday. Participants at the June FOMC (Federal Open Market Commi...
BUENOS AIRES, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Argentinean tennis star Juan Martin Del Potro, ranked 9th worldwide, said bringing home a medal from the London 2012 Olympic Games would be akin to scoring a Grand Slam win. In an interview with local daily Clarin Mo...
MOSCOW, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The Russian national team heading to the London Olympics will be smaller in numbers but stronger by quality than it was in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said. In numbers, we will be a b...
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday began soliciting public opinion on draft regulations for the punishment of fraudulent behavior in granting academic degrees, a move expected to curb fraud and plagiarism in higher-learning institutions. Sp...
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The profits of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) fell 11.6 percent year on year to 1.02 trillion yuan (161.4 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2012, showed data released on Monday. On a monthly basis, the SO...
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Strong downpours and thunderstorms are expected to sweep south China over the coming three days, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast Monday. The storms will hit hardest in regions south of the Yangtze River,...
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rain last week affected about 750,000 people in central China's Hunan province, the provincial flood control and prevention headquarters said on Monday. Heavy rain have poured on Hunan since last Wednesday. A t...
ISTANBUL Growing tensions between Baghdad and the semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdish government over control of the country's energy reserves is threatening to pull neighboring Turkey into the deepening dispute. This past weekend, Iraq warned Ankara that s...
Spanish workers protested in the streets against government plans to impose new austerity measures that will cut their wages. Thousands of people poured into the streets of Madrid Sunday night in a spontaneous protest sparked by calls on Internet soc...
WHITE HOUSE In his latest visit to Ohio, one of several key states in this year's U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama on Monday accused presumed Republican presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney of proposing po...
