PARIS, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The three-day annual French ambassadors' conference is scheduled to begin here on Monday during which President Nicolas Sarkozy and his foreign affairs minister Bernard Kouc
·Most of the ministerial posts were replaced includingforeign and defense ministers.·Nobutaka Machimura has been appointed as foreign minister.·Masahiko Komura will take the post of defense chief.
By Ni Hongmei TOKYO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday reshuffled his 11-month old Cabinet, replacing key ministerial posts including chief Cabinet secretary and ministe
(China Daily)BEIJING, Aug. 27 -- China Construction Bank (CCB) said its revenue won't be affected by the US subprime crisis as it has only a small amount of US mortgage-backed securities. CCB, one of
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The combined risk of mortgage defaults and heavy debt loads has overtaken terrorism as the biggest short-term threat to the U.S. economy, The Wall Street Journal report
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko shovels earth into a blaze after joining attempts by firefighters to extinguish a forest fire in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine Aug. 21, 2007. Yushchenko
DHAKA, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's caretaker government Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed said Wednesday night the curfew would be lifted immediately after the situation improved as it's a tem
DHAKA, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The indefinite curfew imposed in Bangladesh's six major cities including capital Dhaka continued peacefully Thursday, with no major untoward incidents, as army, Rapid Action
A senior Chinese trade official said on Thursday that the recent anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations launched by the United States against Chinese goods violate rules of the World Trade Organ
MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Georgia said on Wednesday a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace for a second time this month, but Russia denied the accusation. “The aircraft that ventured into Ge