-
Top leaders yesterday paid tribute to heroes of the devastating Sichuan earthquake, calling for the "quake relief spirit" to be kept alive.P...
-
Rates cut to ward off slowdown
2023-12-06Following other economies, China cut the benchmark deposit and lending rates by 0.27 of a percentage point yesterday to anchor its economy amid a wors...
-
Limits set on melamine levels
2023-12-06The authorities yesterday set standards for melamine levels in milk and associated food products to allay fears following a contaminated milk powder s...
-
China must use graphic picture warnings and expand health messages on cigarette packs to alert more people to the dangers of smoking, according to hea...
-
Markets shrug off rate cuts
2023-12-06An emergency round of interest rate cuts and governments' support for ailing banks won only muted market support, as most bourses worldwide contin...
-
Targeting climate change in Himalayas
2023-12-06The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program yesterday to address ...
-
France's Le Clezio wins Nobel in literature
2023-12-06France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensu...
-
Chinese scientists have worked out the first genome draft map of the giant panda to figure out exactly what makes the endangered species tick."By...
-
DPRK set to resume nuclear disablement
2023-12-06The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or the DPRK) said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United ...
-
World on brink of 'financial meltdown'
2023-12-06The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the world's financial system was near a meltdown, amid France promising that a meeting of Eu...