President George Bush has reiterated that there will never be an effective agreement on climate change without the participation of emerging economies like China and India. He also said the world must wake up to the "beauty of nuclear power" that produces renewable energy with "zero greenhouse gas...

New Delhi, July 5 : A team of Indian journalists is making a goodwill visit to China from July...

Imphal, July 5 : Youth in Manipur were recently given the benefit of being trained by a Chinese Wushu (martial) expert Liang Dong...

PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sahr-koh-ZEE') says that it is neither reasonable nor fair for the world's top eight industrialized nations to hold summits without including emerging...

altogether. Gay, who won the 100 and 200 at last year's worlds, was in lane seven in the first heat of the 200 quarter-final. He sped out of the blocks but within a few steps went down to the...

There were many good mothers in ancient China who paid special attention to their children's education. The following are inspirational stories of two mothers who taught their children to be pure...

BEIJING - A Chinese man who bought an emaciated pig who survived for 36 days under rubble after May's massive Sichuan earthquake and promised to care for it for life has been given an award by an...

The Chinese city of Tianjin has ordered 40 factories to close for nearly two months in an effort to cut air pollution for the Beijing Olympics.Tianjin, a port city about 150 kilometers southeast of...

Athletics: Can world's fastest be drug free? The final cut has been made for the men's and women's Olympic hockey teams but the fallout might take longer to clear.The three major talking points...

The couple found their room aflame when they walked in 40 minutes after the man surnamed Lin had set the candles alight, local media reported on Thursday. "Lin was arrested by the police later and...

Taipei - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom will visit Taiwan in October to promote ties, the Central News Agency said on Saturday. Speaking by phone from Guatemala's capital Guatemala City, Taiwan's...

While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launches violent attacks on Falun Gong in Flushing, New York, in order to counteract the global "Quit the CCP" campaign and to conceal the CCP's domestic...

, or "old 100 names," and they are so partial to those 100 traditional surnames, Radio Free Netherlands tells us, that over 90% of the country's population of 1.3 billion share them. The...

Taipei - The chairman of Taiwan's ruling KMT party said on Saturday air links with China and opening up Taiwan to Chinese tourists is vital for peace. Wu Poh-hsiung made the remarks at a banquet for...

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Envoys of the Dalai Lama said on Saturday the Chinese lacked serious commitment and that talks on easing tensions after protests against Chinese rule in Tibet were not...

Emily Silver finished fifth in 54.91 behind champion Dara Torres (53.78) and runner-up Coughlin (53.83) to qualify as a member of the 400 freestyle relay team. The top four are automatically selected...

Nike , the world's largest sports shoe and clothing company, on Monday said an advertising blitz around this summer's Beijing Olympics will not be affected by efforts to curtail 'ambush marketing' by...

China has banned its top men's backstroke swimmer for life for using a forbidden substance that promotes muscle growth. The unusually harsh punishment for a first offence is intended to underline...

MANILA: Newly-crowned World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight king Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao was designated on Friday as flag-bearer of the Philippines for the country's delegation to the Beijing...

WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics this August, the White House confirmed, setting aside months of uncertainty over his...

By John LohnOMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. ONE of the athletes was trying to rebound from a poor swim in the semifinal round. The other was trying to earn a return trip to the Olympics after an eight-year...

On the face of it, China might not seem the obvious place to invest at the moment. The local stock market has collapsed, property markets are weak and the interest rate on bank deposits is about half...

All these moves, argue Taipei and Beijing, will benefit Taiwan's economy, build trust and lead to a solution of the conflict.However, the road to rapprochement will get a lot bumpier from here.This...

The weekend charter flights carrying mainland tourists across the Taiwan Straits contributed to the peaceful development of the cross-Straits relationship and opened a new page in the Chinese...

The largest unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre has been quashed in southwest China's Weng'an County in Guizhou province. Currently a large number of paramilitary and riot police...

exclusively in June, made its initiation at 2006, the tourism ratio from foreigners were progressively increased in this complex event. To bring up the MICE...

Three police officers and a teacher are among five people arrested on Friday for allegedly taking part in the national college entrance exam cheating scam in northwest China's Gansu Province, local...

Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong were Saturday preparing to put more officers on duty in schools after a surge in the number of drug cases involving young teenagers. The wealthy city of 6.9 million...

Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister Maria del Lourdes Aranda said Friday that the current ties between Mexico and China are "at its optimum level." Aranda made the statement at a press...

By GEOFFREY BEW MANAMA: Taiwan is ready to become a major supplier of construction materials to Bahrain, it has emerged. Tycoon Teng-Hsiung Chao said the country had the capacity to wipe out...

Hong Kong - Hong Kong legislators were Saturday touring earthquake-devastated parts of Sichuan in China as the city prepares to make a massive and controversial donation to the relief effort. The...

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Okhotsk Sea at 10:12 a.m. (Beijing Time) Saturday, according to the China National Seismological Network. The epicenter was located at 53.9 degrees north...

More than 100 hospital directors agreed at a national forum on Saturday that key structures of hospital buildings should be designed to resist earthquakes measuring 9-10 degrees or above in terms of...

China Merchants Bank (CMB) said its unaudited net profit for the first half of this year would more than double compared with 6.12 billion yuan (886.96 million U.S. dollars) in the first half of...

At the 2004 Games in Athens, 15 Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) nations fought their way onto the medal table. A rampant China had their best-ever performance, finishing second overall to the United...

Emirates has launched its six flights a week to Guangzhou, China's third major air hub and leading manufacturing centre and is Emirates' fourth destination in China. The airline's weekly frequency to...

Towngas, the city's dominant gas supplier, said in a statement the basic tariff will increase by 0.3 HK cents per megajoule from the fourth quarter because of rising costs. It estimated 90% of its...

Eight people have been rescued and another four are still missing after a fishing boat sank off east China's coast, local police said on Saturday. Nine hospital workers in Taizhou City, Zhejiang...

The Prevention of Bribery (Amendment) Ordinance 2008 has come into operation in Hong Kong as of Friday, imposing restrictions on the Chief Executive in respect of any acts of bribery, solicitation...

However, Marellyn Liew, Luisa Los Santos and Foo Jian Beng still have a chance in their final bid for Olympic qualification in the semi-finals today.Marellyn and Luisa clocked 1:02.92s and 1:03.45s...

Beijing's new subway Line 5 was closed for three hours on Friday after heavy rains resulted in water leaking into one of the main stations. The Beijing Meteorological Bureau issued a rainstorm...

China has always paid great attention to Sino-African relations, and is willing to strengthen unity and cooperation with African countries including Angola, said visiting senior official of the...

China called upon all the citizens on Saturday to improve their professional ethics and adopt good manners to create a sound social environment for the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games. Local...

Li Yining, one of China's leading economists, said on Friday that China is facing a pressing challenge of preventing inflation turning into stagflation. He said stagflation, the co-existence of high...

Russian Ambassador to China Sergey Razov on Friday honored four Chinese medical workers and officials for their work in treating children traumatized in the Beslan school hostage crisis. Many...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Legislative Council (LegCo) approved a funding application by the HKSAR government for 21.6 billion HK dollars (about 2.77 billion U.S. dollars) to...

The Romanian Gendarmerie on Friday provided 535,000 lei (about 233,000 U.S. dollars) to the Chinese Ambassador to Romania Liu Zengwen to help the victims of a devastating quake that hit China's...

Hong Kong and Guangdong Province decided in Guangzhou on Friday to set co-operation on the modern information service industry as the focus of the coming year to promote the development of the...

Jiu Bing lost his home, farmland and livelihood when the May 12 quake shook his hometown Wali township, Qingchuan county in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Now working on two makeshift buildings...

A State Administration of Grain (SAG) official said on Friday grain prices might continue rising this year despite a rough supply-demand balance in China. "Price pressure for major grains in...