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Chinese fishermen return home after being held in DPRK

2012-5-21

TWENTY-NINE Chinese fishermen returned home this morning after being detained by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for 13 days. The fisher...

NATO announces progress in missile shield, smart defense

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen yesterday announced progress in the alliance's missile defense system as well as agreements in over 20 multinaitional...

Premier Wen calls for 'relatively fast growth'

China approves Google-Motorola deal

Sharapova beats Li in 'crazy' rain-hit Rome final

Partial solar eclipse sighted this morning

University rivals splash out for sports

Parents of boy sought by police

POLICE are looking for the parents of a toddler left on his own in a stroller on Xiangde Road last Friday. The boy, about 80 centimeters tall, was...

Elevator traps 10

THE door controller of a sightseeing lift in a downtown restaurant malfunctioned Saturday night, trapping 10 passengers for 45 minutes. Some experienc...

Fuel oil cleanup goes on, reservoirs closed

Top talent a key at CPC Congress

Microblog appeal child found dead

Half-price tourist attractions prove just the ticket

Strait talking

Chinese fishermen return home after being held in DPRK

TWENTY-NINE Chinese fishermen returned home this morning after being detained by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for 13 days. The fisher...

20 die in highway tunnel blast

TWENTY people were killed in an explosion inside an under-construction expressway tunnel in central China's Hunan Province yesterday, local authoritie...

Lenders still not paid after 16 years

Plans for Angry Birds park

TODAY IN HISTORY

The men’s national badminton team won the Thomas Cup for the first time on this day in 1982. China h...

MAY

Premier Wen calls for 'relatively fast growth'

PREMIER Wen Jiabao called for more priority to be given to ensure "relatively fast" economic growth, after unusually weak industrial activity in April...

Alibaba buys back 20% stake from Yahoo

ALIBABA Group Holding Co, China's largest e-commerce company, said today that it has reached a buyback deal with Yahoo Inc to buy back half of its sta...

China approves Google-Motorola deal

CHINA'S anti-trust authorities have approved Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. with conditions, clearing the regulatory bar...

China's Wanda buys US cinema owner AMC

More view China as positive influence in the world

G8 in favor of balance

Shippers voice threat from Vale's VLOCs

Railway bidding to be fair and clear

Big cat prowling the world’s oceans

2012-5-18

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Chinese shuttlers launch campaign with whitewash

SUPERSTAR Lin Dan was made to sweat in front of an adoring home crowd but China breezed through its first group ties in the Thomas and Uber Cups world...

Los Angeles teams on the brink

KEVIN Durant hit the go-ahead three pointer with 13 seconds left to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 103-100 win over Los Angeles on Saturday to pu...

Di Matteo in Chelsea mix

CHELSEA interim manager Roberto Di Matteo is under "serious consideration" to be appointed on a permanent basis following the Blues' Champions League ...

Drogba spot on as Blues reign over Europe

Lorenzo wins at Le Mans to snatch lead

Meeting the press under duress

Transgender came so near yet so far

THE first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant strutted the runway on Saturday night, making it to the penultima...

Lockerbie bomber dies aged 60 in Libya

ABDEL Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died yesterday, nearly thr...

17 die in clashes as Yemeni army tries to regain key town

Facebook founder's page updates him as 'married'

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Roots: Reviving family books and tracing ancestors

FAMILIES around China traditionally maintained family books or family trees, tracing genealogy, listing male members' achievements and setting out fam...

Offal conclusion to culinary adventure

I AM on my way to a corporate banquet in a posh hotel in Shanghai. I feel out of place at these things even in England, having recently discovered tha...

Kids, Boys unite for ultimate adolescent show

BACKSTREET'S back. All right? It's been tentatively announced that millennium-era boy band the Backstreet Boys, who visited Shanghai not long ago,...

Orchestra of soloists in town on birthday tour

Thibaudet searches for new meaning in music

The foundations for a new future

Signing up for collective kindness

Chinese perspectives | Foreign perspectives

Feeling the heat in the race to provide greener homes in China

FOR China, energy conservation starts at home. The German edition of the Financial Times reported this month that the energy consumption of China'...

Raising inflation target will not solve anything

POOR Ben Bernanke! As Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board, he has gone further than any other central banker in recent times in a...

After baby-sitting, it's all downhill for women at work

THE labor market is skewed toward women. Or at least toward girls, according to my 14-year-old son. He's too young for most "real" part-time jobs, whi...

China's shift to consumption drives reform and growth

Weetabix purchase: fluke or trend?