SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that two South Korean female hostages were released in Afghanistan. The two hostages are now under protect of South Kor
BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's Hainan Airlines has applied to operate a non-stop flight between Beijing and Seattle in the United States starting next June, sources with the General Administrati
BERLIN, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The European Central Bank (ECB) injected 61.05 billion euros (around 83 billion U.S. dollars) into the money market on Friday after pumping in huge funds on the previous da
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Tuesday expressed his confidence that the United States will safely get through the credit crisis roiling the country's financial markets.“We've been seeing
China's armed police and the interior forces of Russia will launch a joint anti-terrorism drill in Moscow in early September.“Cooperation 2007“ will be the first international anti-terrorism exerc
A joint venture between a Vietnamese joint stock company and the U.S.-based Semtech Ltd is completing an investment report on building an oil refinery in Vietnam's southern Can Tho city.The venture pl
The US subprime crisis will have limited impact on China's mortgage market, but it has raised the need for stricter examination of individual credit and higher down payments, insiders said.The US subp
Colourful paper lanterns floating on Songhuajiang River in city Jilin, northeast China's Jilin province, on the night of Double Seventh Festival, or Chinese Valentine's Day, August 20, 2007. [Photo: c
Educating young people through sport is one of the primary goals of the Olympic Movement. In China this goal is currently being achieved by providing approximately 400 million young people in more tha
Dean has downgraded to a category-1 hurricane on Tuesday as it crossed the eastern Mexican Campeche state slowly towards the states of Veracruz and Tamaulipas, both in the Gulf of Mexico region.Corres