BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese share prices rose 1.48 percent to close at another record high on Monday despite Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropping 2.67 percent and Indonesian stocks falling 4.3
British Columbia's transit system has agreed to buy a fleet of fuel cell-powered buses to be used in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the western Canadian province said on Friday. BC Transit has
Chinese police must be more polite, more efficient and better dressed in the run-up to next year's Beijing Olympics or they will be punished, state media said on Sunday. It is part of a Ministry of Pu
WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The White House denied on Friday that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller III on Thursday contradicted the sworn testimony of Attorney General
KIM HEE-YEON, wife of pastor Bae Hyung-kyu who was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cries during a news conference asking for the safe return of the remaining 22 South Korean hostag
ISLAMABAD, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said Friday that Lal Masjid, or the Red Mosque, would be closed for indefinite period.The government had opened
KABUL, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Friday in Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said.Two ISAF soldiers and one Afghan s
WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States and India have reached an operating agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Friday. “The United Sta
WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a multi-billion dollar farm bill on Friday, despite a veto threat from the White House.The new five-year package devotes money
The country's top watchdog on products quality has urged local quarantine authorities to tighten inspections of birds and poultry from the United States after a shipment of carrier pigeons from there