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China: US shouldn't pin its difficulties on yuan

2010-3-13

THE United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said yesterday. People's Bank of China Vice Governor...

Ho elected vice chairman of CPPCC

EDMUND Ho Hau Wah, former chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), was elected Vice Chairman of the National Committee of...

2 pulled from landslide, but only one survives

Net regulator warns Google it must comply with Chinese law

Ho elected vice chairman of CPPCC

At last, to the airport by Metro

PASSENGERS will be able to get to Hongqiao International Airport's new terminal via Metro Line 2 from Tuesday. But those with flights from the old ter...

All eyes on the girls at city exhibition

THERE was a rush for front row seats when the Seventh China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition opened at the Shanghai Interna...

We're not lovin' it

ABOUT 29 percent of Chinese women are not satisfied with their sex lives, according to a survey of 10,836 women released as the sex expo opened in Sha...

Bus travelers to be added to security list

Lover to pay after fall from 4th floor

2 pulled from landslide, but only one survives

A 17-YEAR-old girl -- pulled alive with her older brother early yesterday morning from a landslide where they had been buried for 54 hours -- died in ...

China hits back at US human rights

CHINA has responded to United States criticism of its human rights by publishing its own report on what happens in America. "As in previous years,...

Critic: It's too easy to divorce in China

SOARING divorce rates have prompted Chinese lawmakers and political advisers to propose a mandatory "cooling off" period to allow troubled couples to ...

Data questioned as too rosy

Anti-execution judge quits

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1993, the male and female skulls of "Nanjing Man" (Homo erectus nankinensis) were dis...

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China targets production growth at 11%

CHINA is targeting 11 percent growth in industrial production this year, and much of that should come from less energy-consuming and higher-tech secto...

US action worsens trade row

TRADE disputes between the United States and China continued to worsen as the US announced yesterday that it would impose an anti-dumping tariff of up...

Toyota slapped with California lawsuit

SOUTHERN California prosecutors filed the first US consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp yesterday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud"...

GM recalls 2,065 Chevy SUVs in China

CIC overseas investments see double-digit yields

Surprise fall in US trade gap in January

US consumers raise spending

Lille dents Liverpool's Europa hopes

FIVE-TIME European champion Liverpool is in danger of Europa League elimination after losing 1-0 at Lille on Thursday in the away leg of the Round o...

Renault accuses McLaren of starting rear wing arms race

RENAULT has accused rivals McLaren of opening up a Formula One arms race with its controversial rear wing even though it has been ruled legal by the s...

Orlando pushes winning streak to 7

THE Orlando Magic stormed to a season-high seventh consecutive win with a 111-82 rout of the Chicago Bulls on Thursday in Florida. Vince Carter ...

Scwartzel jumps to top of leaderboard

Fish, Moya march into second round

Thai government warns of ill-intended people during mass rally

THAI security personnel are instructed to be careful of ill-intended people who are reportedly to incite violence during a mass rally, Prime Minister ...

India, Russia sign nuclear agreements

INDIA and Russia Friday signed a nuclear cooperation agreement and chalked out an ambitious road map for a series of nuclear reactors to be built in I...

Kazakh court jails nuclear executive for 14 years

THE lawyer for a former head of Kazkahstan's state nuclear energy company says his client has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on charges of embezzl...

Thaksin supporters plan 'million man march'

Suicide bombs kill at least 43 in Lahore

Travel | Film and TV | Events | Health

Festival celebrates fields of gold

THE Fengxian Rape Flower Festival will be held from March 29 to April 12 and visitors can enjoy scenery, folk performances and home cooking. Fengxian ...

Building Nanqiao New City

NANQIAO New City will be an economic hub on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay and in 15 years' time it will be a green, clean engine of growth and home ...

Protecting Old Town charms

FENGXIAN Old Town near Hangzhou Bay will be preserved, restored and cleaned up and many non-traditional buildings will be removed in a recently approv...

Cheering test-tube quake baby

Astonishing the world anew

Dance fest at Grand Theater

'Old Marc' a China legend

Chinese perspectives | Foreign perspectives

How the 'Nordic Tiger' lost bite and might

LAST Saturday, Icelandic voters flatly rejected a government deal to repay British and Dutch depositors the equivalent of US$5.3 billion lost in the d...

America's obsession with speculation

ONE of the major changes in Chinese attitudes in the past 30 years is that speculation has been elevated from a criminal offense to a mass movement. ...

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Divorce rates rise, can mediators help?

Balancing Net freedoms with public interest