A picture released by the official Cuban newspaper Granma Aug. 14, 2006 shows Cuban leader Fidel Castro receiving a birthday gift from visiting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in his
China Netcom (File Photo)BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- China Netcom, the country's second largest fixed-line operator, saw its net profit fall 5.4 percent in the first half of 2007 under continued pres
Beijing, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said over the weekend that its ratings and outlook on Bank of China Ltd. (BOC) were not affected by the bank's disclosure of its exp
A still image taken from surveillance camera footage shows giant panda Yang Yang holding her newly born cub in her mouth in the zoo in Vienna August 23, 2007. [Photo: Reuters]The giant panda Yang Yang
“Qin Road“, one of the largest TV series of this year, with an investment of more than 3,000 million yuan, started shooting in city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia on Wednesday.The 35-episode TV series
BEIJING, Aug. 26 -- Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Friday he was confident of victory in the “special war“ against poor product quality despite its highly demanding targets. “Although the go
HANGZHOU, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- More than 63 percent of Taiwan entrepreneurs want to scale up their investment in the Chinese mainland, a recent survey of the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufactur
A latest national survey has found that over half of China's netizens are suffering from various mental problems although some 62 percent of them claim at the same time that they are happy on the whol
A formal launching ceremony of the 2007 K-Star Global Chinese Kung Fu Star TV Competition has recently kicked off in Beijing.This is the second time that China's Shaolin Temple teamed up with TV media
TIRANA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Serbia said on Friday that it is time to send back a number of Serbian troops to Kosovo, another move following a series of tough talks by Serbian officials on the Kosovo i