Shanghai's high court rejected a request to give Yang Jia, the unemployed Beijing man who killed six Shanghai policemen and injured four others on...
Global stock markets rebounded strongly yesterday after last week's historic sell-off as governments from Europe to Australia to the US intensifie...
The nation has set a goal of doubling the per capita disposable income of rural residents by 2020 from the 2008 level, top decision-makers announced i...
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...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or the DPRK) said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United ...
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...
France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensu...
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program yesterday to address ...
An emergency round of interest rate cuts and governments' support for ailing banks won only muted market support, as most bourses worldwide contin...
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...