Top leaders yesterday paid tribute to heroes of the devastating Sichuan earthquake, calling for the "quake relief spirit" to be kept alive.P...
Following 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...
The 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...
An emergency round of interest rate cuts and governments' support for ailing banks won only muted market support, as most bourses worldwide contin...
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program yesterday to address ...
France'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...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or the DPRK) said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the world's financial system was near a meltdown, amid France promising that a meeting of Eu...