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Xi launches Party cleanup drive

2013-6-19

A YEARLONG campaign to "clean up" undesirable work styles has been announced by China's Communist Party. President Xi Jinping, who is also Party c...

Food safety watchdog blacklists 13 people, 2 eateries

THE Shanghai Food and Drug Supervision Administration has blacklisted 13 individuals and two restaurants for violating China's Food Safety Law and the...

Points system widens education options to non-locals' children

Babies for sale as would-be parents prefer illegal route

Shining a light on mysteries of the deep

Numbers rise for storing umbilical cord

THE Shanghai Cord Blood Bank said more parents are now willing to pay to store their child's umbilical cord and then offer it to the public because of...

Rain to bring some relief from heat

SHANGHAI sizzled for another day yesterday with the mercury reaching 36.6 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest day so far this year, but rain is exp...

Licenses of dairy item makers up for review

THE city is stepping up measures to stamp out unqualified makers of dairy products, authorities said yesterday. A total of 11 dairy companies, in...

'Transformers' to take in Beijing sights

Reservoir bids to curb algae threat

China issues ban on private adoption of abandoned infants

CHINA has announced a ban on individuals and groups privately adopting abandoned infants in a country where tens of thousands are abandoned each year ...

Carbon trading scheme to cut emissions

CHINA officially launched its first trading scheme aimed at reducing emissions yesterday. The platform allowing businesses in the southern city of...

15 tried in largest online pyramid scam in China

FIFTEEN people accused of involvement in the nation's largest online pyramid scheme stood trial yesterday in a court in east China's Zhejiang Province...

Cave homes turn owners into tour entrepreneurs

US festival part of Shaolin global expansion

TODAY IN HISTORY

China’s National University of Defense and Technology worked out the Galaxy-III supercomputer on thi...

JUNE

Boeing's new 787-10 heats up jet battle

BOEING launched a larger version of its flagship Dreamliner aircraft at the Paris Air Show yesterday, intensifying the battle with rival Airbus in the...

Slower rise in home prices in May

HOME prices in China continued to see slower rises in May, with fewer cities recording month-on-month increases, the National Bureau of Statistics sai...

China, EU to hold talks on solar row

CHINA said yesterday that it will hold talks this week with the European Union in a bid to resolve a dispute over solar panels and other business issu...

Denza eyes to be top quality green car

Mortgages climb on surge in home sales

HK sees decline in seasonal jobless rate

IPO nod said by end of July

China's coal imports may drop in June

Mengniu buys Yashili for US$1.5b

Projectors roll as film festival opens

2013-6-16

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Australia, S Korea, Iran reach World Cup

ASIAN giants Iran, South Korea and Australia reached the 2014 World Cup but Uzbekistan narrowly failed to book its place on a dramatic night of action...

Eriksson: Coaching in China my biggest challenge

IT certainly recalled memories from the "good old days" in Italy and England for Sven-Goran Eriksson, when he was surrounded by journalists and fans. ...

Tahiti's Tehau has Barcelona dreams after historic goal

JONATHAN Tehau struggled to articulate his joy after becoming the first player to score for Tahiti at a high-profile international tournament in a 1-6...

Singapore Open hit by late pullouts

Malisse stuns Ferrer in Rosmalen opener

Karzai, US to talk peace with Taliban

AFGHANISTAN will send a team to Qatar for peace talks with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday, as the US-led NATO coalition launched t...

G-8 backs negotiations to end Syria's war

WORLD leaders including the US and Russia declared yesterday they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the Syrian civil war that wil...

Russia to limit gay couple adoptions

RUSSIAN lawmakers yesterday backed a bill which would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are legal, following ...

Shanghai invited to vie for world's tallest tower at 1.6 kilometers high

WHO links obesity to the marketing of unhealthy foods

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Happy childhoods elude both rich and poor

WEI Yufan stays busy during the week and spends her weekends and holidays at cramming schools, taking math, English, piano and taekwondo classes. ...

Baroque music the way it sounded to Vivaldi

THE Academy of Ancient Music, which uses period instruments and authentic reproductions, will stage a concert of Baroque music by the masters next Thu...