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- 'Made in China' - but for how long?
- Housing prices 'to fall in Q4'
- Scramble to contain oil pipeline spill
- Threat of 'worst flood in 12 yrs'
- Exchange rate hits a 5-year record
- $10b railway deals signed
- Exclusive: Dam's flood capacity 'limited'
- Google's China fate hangs in limbo
- Fatal theme park rides put spotlight on safety
- Hotel industry looks for a break
Beijing — Accelerated urbanization can keep the country's economy on the fast track for another 15 to 20 years, as more than half of its population will live in cities and towns by 2015, a top Chinese think tank said on Thursday.
BEIJING — Chung Un-chan, the ROK's prime minister, filed his resignation on Thursday, holding himself responsible for the government's failure last month to get parliamentary approval for a bill to scrap a project to develop a new administrative city, the ROK's Yonhap News Agency reported.
China has provided aid to more than 160 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and in the South Pacific since 1950. The nearly 2,000 aid projects include agriculture, construction, transport, medical care and education, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce.
Beijing — Universal preschool education and a pledge to eliminate illiteracy are among the reforms of China's education system published in the country's national education plan for the next decade.
SHANGHAI — The country will start shooting its first national publicity film in the capital as part of latest efforts to boost its image worldwide. The Shanghai Lowe & Partners advertising company has been assigned to shoot the film, Wang Lijun, assistant to the company's president, told China Daily in an interview.
Beijing — A top military officer has warned the Chinese military to keep a close eye on the changing situation amid a large-scale naval exercise in the South China Sea, held at the same time as a joint Washington-Seoul drill, State media reported on Thursday.
ISLAMABAD — Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.
BEIJING — Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) on Thursday signed a $1.35 billion agreement with global miner Rio Tinto to develop the Simandou iron ore project in the West African country of Guinea. The move also marks the end of the stalemate between China and the global miner on cooperation after ties soured in June this year.
The story of ancient Hefei is a tale of two cities — one raised for war, another for peace, one with a history long interred in ruins, while the legacy of the other continues until today.
It was Australian volunteer teacher Jiang Chao who taught 13-year-old Wu Shengqiao her favorite English-language phrase — "Never give up". But 18-year-old Jiang says that it was Wu and her classmates, who are growing up in one of the country's poorest villages, that taught him what that really means.
Uncertainty remains a looming spectre in any corporate enterprise. In board rooms of today, the executive who seems to hold a crystal ball through which he foresees the future is able to rise rapidly in corporate ranks. Still, events like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill can hardly be foreseen. It's even difficult to intuit the likely impact of Hong Kong's hotly debated minimum wage.
President Hu Visits Canada, Attends G20 Summit
Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan from June 9 to 12 , and will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent.
World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.
