The central government yesterday stepped in to bolster the sagging real estate market by lowering transaction taxes, reducing down payments and loweri...
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has praised China for its "constructive" role in dealing with the global financial crisis and said Beiji...
China needs better food safety laws, the United Nations said in a report released yesterday.It said there is a need for education and training of stak...
Rich countries are partly responsible for pollution from poor ones, including poisonous mining discharge, because they buy many of the raw materials a...
US Democrat Barack Obama will leave the presidential campaign trail to visit his ailing 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, whose health has deteriorat...
Software giant Microsoft has sparked a major controversy among millions of Chinese computer users with the nationwide launch yesterday of its "Sc...
Lawmakers and officials moved forward forging a second fiscal stimulus bill after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke endorsed the idea and the Bush...
Doctors are warning of new health risks to the rural population as their living conditions improve."An increasing number of people have diabetes ...
As many as half of all toy manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta could go out of business within the next two years, an industry expert said yesterda...
The US may be on its way to becoming a nation of savers, whether Americans like it or not.With home and stock prices declining and credit hard to come...