China has started a reform on the publishing houses controlled by departments and organs of the central government, a senior official said Thursday. Liu Yunshan, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark at a meeting with bosses of those publishing houses held in Beijing. The reform is aimed at t...
United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, heading a delegation of the House, will visit China from May 24 to 31 as guest of Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's top legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), the NPC announced Thursday. Source: Chinadaily
Two confirmed A(H1N1) influenza patients were discharged from hospitals in Beijing and Guangzhou on Friday after a week of treatment. One of the two patients was 18-year-old Liu Xinwei, who was diagnosed with the flu after she returned from the United States. She was hospitalized at Beijing's Ditan Hospital on May 15 and had a video meeting with Chinese ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced Wednesday that China will shortly send another buying mission to the European Union (EU) to increase imports from Europe. The Chinese trade promotion mission sent to the EU immediately after Wen's European tour in January had produced positive results, Wen told reporters at the end of the 11th summit between China and...
Developing countries must stand united at upcoming climate talks and pressure developed nations to meet their responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That is the message climate negotiators and experts from China, Brazil, India and South Africa will take to next month's Bonn climate talks. The experts gathered in Shanghai Wednesday to discus...
The University of Melbourne is hoping to foster more exchanges and closer cooperation with Chinese students and academics, said Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the institution, during a visit to China. China is the central part of our international engagement as we have over 3,000 Chinese students now on campus and tens of thousands of graduates ...
Ten regions misused 2.69 billion yuan ($394 million) from an agriculture fund in 2007, of which 58 million yuan was spent on building houses and buying cars, the National Audit Office (NAO) said Wednesday. The money was taken out of a 350-billion-yuan special fund designated to accelerate agricultural development. Apart from misused funds, about 4.6 billi...
Frustrations faced by the people of Navuso in Fiji's province of Naitasiri will be a thing of the past with the opening of the Navuso Bridge on Thursday marking a new beginning for villagers-thanks to the China Railway Wuju (Group). Fiji's Ministry of Transport said the opening of the new Navuso Bridge will help improve the livelihoods of the 2000 peopl...
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