Bloodbath as suicide bombs hit arms plant

2008-8-22

TWIN suicide bombings at a massive weapons factory near Pakistan's capital killed at least 59 people and wounded 70 others yesterday, dashing hopes for an end to turmoil following Pervez Musharraf's resignation as...

Sprinters fly, but high dives for China

JAMAICA made it a clean sweep of Olympic sprint golds yesterday with victory in the women's 200 meters by Veronica Campbell-Brown. Over the past w...

Twisted US death tale has roots in Shanghai

A SHANGHAI court has suspended an inheritance-dispute lawsuit that is related to a sensational and tangled homicide case in the United States. The...

Sleepless residents complain as city's SoHo draws a crowd

TIANZIFANG - a hot tourist spot in central Shanghai - is at the center of a conflict as store owners and residents clash over boisterous tourists and ...

Storms to slack off next week

THE hot, stormy weather pattern that has brought cloudbursts to the city over the past week or so is expected to ease early next week, forecasters sai...

Foundation founder is honored

Ship veers off course into Bund floodwall

China may fine-tune moves but major stimulus unlikely

CHINA may fine-tune macroeconomic policies to bolster growth, but a major stimulus package does not look likely this year, analysts said. "Althoug...

Individual forex assets set to rise with service

THE new individual foreign currency exchange service by non-financial players in Shanghai and Beijing will help people increase their forex assets and...

ICBC profit jump puts bank on top of world

Fiat invests in engine of growth

Hunt widens for Chinese mountaineer

TANZANIA has launched an all-out search on Mount Kilimanjaro where an amateur Chinese climber went missing on his descent from the 5,895-meter peak in...

Tightened security not aimed at tourists

THE Beijing tourism department yesterday reassured foreign tourists that increased security at the city's parks was not aimed at them but at providing...

Anteater smugglers caught in police sting

12 shoppers injured in frenzy to buy discounted cooking oil

Police fear chaos amid plans of giant booze-up

TEENAGERS and alcohol have always been a heady mix, but an added shot of Internet information sharing has sent Swiss authorities scrambling to find a ...

Greek police finally arrest fugitive No. 1

POLICE have arrested Greece's most wanted man while tracking down the alleged kidnappers of a prominent businessman, authorities said yesterday. C...

Glitter free, but nowhere to go

Monsoons kill 74 as rain keeps up in India

Griffey hits 609th homer as Chisox top Seattle

CHICAGO White Sox slugger Ken Griffey Jr struck his 609th home run against the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday to tie Sammy Sosa for fifth place on the ...

Gunners get United's Silvestre

ARSENAL signed French defender Mikael Silvestre on a two-year deal from English Premier League rival Manchester United on Wednesday. The 31-year-o...

England blasted for bad show

Mauresmo stuns Swiss, Karlovic out

The unsung hero behind the success

WHILE the opening ceremony was taking place at the National Stadium, I was sitting inside the Crew Zone below the spectator seats. The position of...

Collection built on experience

GUO Qingxiang has come a long way from building ships in coastal Dalian. These days he is building an art collection to be envied, much of it the work...

Italian wines reward the adventurous

Creepy, crawly & cute

Failure is nothing to be ashamed of

AS the sight of Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang limping off the Olympic track stunned the nation on Monday, the reaction of the mega-star's countrymen would...

Consumption tax not the way to a greener future

A SHARP tax increase on big cars and a matching reduction on small ones: China's recent adjustment of its consumption tax on vehicles marks the latest...

Simple dialogue can correct views of China

China's soccer madness scores a host of own-goals