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Mercedes plays down Schumi rumors

Sports | Motor racing
2009-11-22

MERCEDES has played down, without completely dismissing, media speculation that seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher could come out of retirement as Jenson Button's replacement. "It's clear...

Property developer acquires land in Beijing at 5.05 bln yuan

Business | Real estate
2009-11-21

DALONG Estate, a Shanghai-listed property developer owned by Beijing's Shunyi district government, had acquired a parcel of residential land in Shunyi for 5.05 billion yuan (US$739 million), the Beijing Times reported...

Huarong tries to solve US$46b bond obligation

Business | Asset management/M&A
2009-11-21

HUARONG Asset Management Co, which manages billions of dollars of bad debt spun off from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in the 1990s, is still working on a plan to address a massive bond obligation that...

Hu, Obama join hands on key issues

National
2009-11-18

PRESIDENT Hu Jintao and his US counterpart Barack Obama promised a determined, joint effort to tackle the financial crisis, climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global problems after their first full-blown...

Escapee hunted in mountains

National
2009-11-18

ABOUT 200 police officers are combing a mountainous area in central China's Hunan Province for a prisoner who tunneled out of a local jail. Officers from the Deshan Prison in Changde City and local police are...

Officials sacked over forced lottery sale

National
2009-11-18

NEIGHBORHOOD officials in southwestern China's Sichuan Province have been fired or suspended from work after forcing low-income residents to buy welfare lottery when they claim government-sponsored living allowances. ...

In-orbit inspection scheduled for space shuttle

World
2009-11-17

SPACE shuttle Atlantis is circling Earth in pursuit of the International Space Station. Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the space station tomorrow. In the meantime, the astronauts will pull out an...

China, US hold new round of human rights dialogue

National
2009-11-17

CHINA and the United States underlined that each country and its people have the right to choose their own path, and agreed to hold the next round of human rights dialogue in Washington by the end of February 2010,...

Hu hosts welcome ceremony for US President Obama

National
2009-11-17

CHINESE President Hu Jintao hosted a red-carpet welcome ceremony for visiting US President Barack Obama this morning at the Great Hall of the People. This is Obama' s first state visit to China since he assumed...

Chinese President Hu Jintao to meet Obama

National
2009-11-17

CHINESE President Hu Jintao is to meet his US counterpart President Barack Obama this morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The summit meeting is scheduled to be held at 10:40 am after a grand welcoming...