Chinese officials are urging the international community to aid earthquake relief efforts by donating tents to shelter the estimated five million Chinese who lost their homes. The 7.9 magnitude quake flattened some 45,000 buildings, not including pri...
The State Department said Thursday Burma has granted a visa to the head of the U.S. assessment team assigned for duty in that country's cyclone disaster. But other members of the U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID - team continue to st...
The earthquake in southwestern China displaced five million people, and many families were separated, leaving parents and children still looking for their loved ones. In the chaos, there has been a special outpouring of concern for the thousands of c...
U.S. President George Bush wants Congress to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia. Opposition Democrats have delayed that vote until after November elections. 美国总统布什希望国会批准与哥伦比亚的自由贸易协定。但是国会...
The chief U.S. envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, Christopher Hill, visits Beijing and Moscow next week to consult on efforts to move the stalled disarmament process forward. Officials say the assistant secretary of State...
The UN refugee agency is urging South African authorities to suspend deportation of Zimbabweans and to allow them to regularize their stay in South Africa. The UNHCR says it is making this exceptional request in light of the violence against foreigne...
Central China has been struck by a powerful aftershock as the region struggles to recover from a massive earthquake earlier this month that killed tens of thousands of people and left many more homeless. Latest shock killed at least one person in Sic...
Americans are marking the Memorial Day holiday weekend - a time set aside to honor the nation's war dead. In Washington, this is also a time for the roar of motorcycle engines - as one group of veterans remembers not just the dead, but the missing. 美...
Burma's assurances that it will allow in international relief workers are being put to the test as aid agencies await visas for workers seeking to help victims of Cyclone Nargis. Skeptics are questioning whether Burma's military leaders will allow in...
South Korea's President heads to China this week for high-level talks with his country's biggest trading partner. Besides hoping to expand commercial opportunities, Seoul hopes to strengthen security cooperation on issues such as ending North Korea's...
In 2000 the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. One of these is halving the number of people living in extreme poverty. However, with only seven years left, campaigners are concerned that at the present rat...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has long had a policy of engaging with Burma, even when many countries have criticized its military government. Now, some regional political analysts credit ASEAN with helping persuade Burma to allow in fore...
Burma's military government has extended the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for at least six months. Security forces also arrested about 20 opposition supporters. Meanwhile aid agencies say they are gradually gaining access to cyclon...
A major bridge in Baghdad that spans the Tigris River reopened Tuesday with much fanfare, 13 months after terrorists bombed the landmark and killed more than 10 people. Iraqi officials say they are celebrating more than a bridge reopening; they are c...
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, spoke about the dangers of nuclear proliferation Tuesday in a speech in Denver, Colorado. Meanwhile, there is only one week left in the Democratic primary battle between Senators B...
