China plans to build a national renewable energy center to further support development of the industry, an energy official said yesterday. The center will be responsible for policy-making, key project and program management, market and industrial operations, database and information platform establishment and international exchange program coordination, H...
It is "very essential" for the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) to open offices on each other's side, a mainland official said Wednesday. "The anticipated offices will help handle issues during cross-Strait exchanges and properly safeguard legitimate rights and interes...
Sun Shanwu, former vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Henan Provincial Committee, was sentenced to death with a two-year repreive for graft in eastern China's Shandong Province Tuesday. According to the Weifang Intermediate People Court, Sun, 63, was found to have taken bribes worth of more than 9.1 million y...
NEW YORK: Chinese banking regulators won a top award from a leading risk management association in New York on Tuesday. The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and its chairman Liu Mingkang were jointly named the Risk Manager of the year 2009 by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) at the association's 11th annual conference. "We ...
BERLIN: Germany's multi-year reign as the world's No 1 exporter is officially over, with the crown formally passing to rising China after new figures showed that German exports slid by nearly a fifth in 2009, the biggest decline in 60 years. Tuesday's German government figures only confirmed an open secret: China's runaway growth and resilience amid t...
Different growth path behind levels: Senior environment official The country might see its pollution levels peak at an earlier stage of economic growth than expected, a senior environmental official said on Tuesday. "China has taken a different growth path from developed countries so it is very likely that our pollution peak will come earlier," Zhang Li...
Food quality watchdog gave green light to poisoned product Food quality supervisors in Shaanxi province are under fire after they declared that a recently seized batch of melamine-tainted milk products was safe. An executive from Zhenmei Company, in Guangdong province, which purchased 3 tons of tainted milk powder last October from the Lekang Company in...
After a trial period, a majority of passengers leaving Guangdong province in the peak traffic season of the Spring Festival praised the name-based train ticket system for its fairness and called for it to continue in the future. However, a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways said it remains to be seen whether the pilot project will continue next year a...
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