Party pledges to provide lift for farmers: on the double

2008-10-13

CHINA'S top decision makers said yesterday they aimed to double the income of the country's farmers in 12 years amid efforts to boost domestic demand and counter the effects of the faltering global economy. The...

Stem-cell researchers hail chemical shortcut

RESEARCHERS trying to find ways to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells said yesterday they had found a shortcut by "sprinkling" a c...

Europe's leaders scramble to save battered financial sector

EUROPEAN leaders raced against the clock yesterday to clinch a rescue strategy for banks battered by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, under...

Worker killed in pipe accident

A WORKER was killed and another seriously injured in an accident at the construction site of the southern part of the Bund Tunnel in Shanghai yesterda...

Fudan University gives MBA course an update

FUDAN University has upgraded its decade-old MBA course design and made slight changes to its enrollment process, school officials said yesterday. ...

Clement weather means late autumn

Killer returns to court to appeal death ruling

PCCW's sell-off plan scrapped

PCCW Ltd, Hong Kong's biggest phone company, has shelved a plan to sell up to 45 percent of its main unit, saying the "market downturn" was to blame f...

HK currency reserves could prop up market

HONG Kong may use all of its foreign reserves to stabilize its financial markets, said a government official, after the global credit crisis undermine...

Call for global joint effort to fix stability

Analysts see index possible at 1,800

Yu Youjun removed from CPC Central Committee

THE Third Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) yesterday approved a proposal from the CPC disciplinary ...

Mining dump survey boosts safety

A survey of China's mining dumps, triggered by a deadly landslide last month, is expected to be completed by the end of the month, the Ministry of Ind...

Panda's genome code sequence breakthrough

Games traffic rules now law

Computers have a chat to pass the human test

TODAY, Alice will chat up 10 carefully selected strangers. Her aim - tricking them into believing she's human. Alice is one of six pieces of s...

Economy curbs McCain's final 3-week push

REPUBLICAN John McCain, his presidential hopes battered by chaos in the American economy, has just three weeks left to come up with a consistent campa...

Search for AIDS cure gets rethink

Bio terror plagues US vaccine law

Jankovic toasts easy Kremlin Cup triumph

TOP-RANKED Jelena Jankovic beat Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-4 yesterday to win the Kremlin Cup and her third straight title in as many weeks. T...

Anand to lock horns with Kramnik in Bonn

EXPERTS are predicting a close match when Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand defends his world chess championship title in a 12-game match starting ...

England, Spain ease to victory

Liang holds on to win title

Audiences finding a connection with digital art

AS the Chinese art market booms, so is the new field of digital art. Some of the very best examples of this new genre will go on display in Shanghai f...

Chinese fashion brands address new challenges

YOUNG Chinese, especially the "Me" generation, love their clothes - which means good business for fashion stores. But as more international brands mak...

From humble occupants of state welfare housing to 'mortgage slaves'

High-rises put stress on sinking Shanghai

When developers 'feel for' workers, look for crocodile tears

IF there are really crocodile tears, they're from this man: Pan Shiyi. On October 9, Mr Pan, head of SOHO China, a real estate company, published ...

Hitting a historian in the face is a slap against freedom of speech

THE recent attack on a famous historian was a slap in the face of the spirit of free speech. A young man slapped the face of Yan Chongnian, a 75-y...

Financial crisis springs from dotcom rescue

Time for Wall St bottom fishing?