NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Citigroup, the largest banking company in the United States, named former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin as its new chairman Sunday, replacing Charles Prince who res
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended a session of volatile trading lower on Monday after Citigroup stoked credit fears with the announcement of more mortgage-related losses. Charles Prince r
GAZA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Sacked Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haneya, who is also a Hamas leader in Gaza, Sunday slammed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for standing with Israel and the United
BRASILIA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people died on Sunday after a small Learjet airplane crashed in northern Brazil's Sao Paulo city in a residential neighborhood, Brazil's Military Police sai
BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Standard and Poor's Ratings Services said on Monday that it had raised its long-term corporate credit rating on China Petroleum and Chemicals Corp. (Sinopec) to A- from BBB
BRUSSELS, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Dutch oil giant Shell wants to participate in the exploitation of a large gas field on the Russian peninsula Jamal in northern Siberia, Dutch paper Financiele Dagblad repo
GUATEMALA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Guatemalan President Oscar Berger cast his ballot on Sunday at an electoral booth in southern Guatemala City in a second round to elect the country's next president while
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's urban fixed-asset investment rose 26.8 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2007, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday. The figure indicat
Beijing plans to build a community health service system in 2008 that will cover all its urban and rural residents. Beijing residents will soon be able to enjoy house call service from community docto
China's Ministry of Education (MOE) on Thursday announced that the government would send 12,000 Chinese students to study overseas in 2008, including 6,000 postgraduates. Most of the students receivin