India is going full-steam ahead with plans to build a type of power plant that converts garbage to power, despite fears by some that it could amount to a pollution disaster in a country without…
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Europe’s top clubs have expressed “major concerns on how world football is governed”. Following their general assembly in Geneva, the 136 clubs of the European Club Association rejected Fifa proposals to expand the international calendar…
In big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, real estate prices are sky-rocketing, and there are many laws restricting the sales of both new and second-hand property. As of April 30th, 2010 families living in Beijing…
The China Pavilion at the Shanghai World expo ground, welcomed 300,000 people during the spring festival holidays. The attendance on Saturday and Sunday set a new record as daily peak recorded 48,000 visitors at Shanghai…
Afghanistan and the U.S. are negotiating on the establishment of long-term U.S. military bases on the territory of the Islamic Republic, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said at a press conference in Kabul. According to Russian Information Agency, Karzai…
She is super-talented. She plays the violin, piano, jazz piano, saxophone, and morinkhuur. At 28, Nagisa Abe is a young Japanese woman, who has won the admiration of the public with her inexhaustible urge to…
China can play a positive role in revitalizing southern Sudan after voters there overwhelmingly decided to establish Africa’s newest country, analysts said. The South Sudan Referendum Commission on Monday announced the final results of a…
By Larry Chin The Obama administration and prominent members of Congress have begun pushing the idea that an intelligence failure prevented the US government from predicting massive civil unrest in Egypt and the Arab world….
ERZURUM, Turkey, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Cai Xuetong won the third gold medal for China from the women’s snowboard halfpipe event on Friday at the 25th World Winter Universiade here. Xue, the winner of the 2009…
SANYA, Hainan, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Sanya, a tropical resort in China’s southernmost island province of Hainan, will see its tourist numbers peak in the coming weekend as Spring Festival holidaymakers flock to enjoy sunshine…