Chinese people are sleeping later on average than they did 10 years ago, but their total sleep time remains the same, research by the Leisure Economy Research Centre of Renmin University shows. A surv
The scene fades to black, the movie is over, and the credits begin to roll. But wait! Don't leave just yet. You might miss some of the great custom-made artwork being cooked up by today's filmmakers.
PARIS, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed Friday during a cabinet meeting that “France must be present in Iraq,“ French government spokesman Laurent Wauquiez has said.
BERLIN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The German cabinet agreed on Friday on a plan to try to find a way to protect German industries from unwanted takeovers by investment funds owned by foreign governments.
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The average wholesale price of pork from Aug. 13 to 19 saw a week-on-week drop of 1.4 percent, according to the Ministry of Commerce. It was the second consecutive drop in
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) on Thursday reported a 61.4 percent year-on-year increase in its first-half profit after tax. For the Jan-June peri
Five needy college students in Central China's Hubei Province are being denied further financial aid because they never expressed their thanks to the benefactors who helped them pay their bills last y
Nowadays residents in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province don't need to worry being caught without an umbrella in public areas when rain starts falling. That's because the “Love and Care Umbrell
An investor shows his open hand signalling five at a stock brokerage in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 23, 2007. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index surpassed the 5,000 mark for
BEIJING, Aug. 23 --The Shanghai stock market edged up yesterday despite the unexpected announcement of an interest rate hike by the central bank late on Tuesday. The People's Bank of China raised the