日期：2009-06-11 Sporting skimpy outfits and glistening smiles, the women dancing in a Beijing gym could be cheerleaders for any US sports team. Only the colorful fans and nunchaku gave them away. One month before the Beijing Olympics, hundreds of Chinese women are... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation (CMEC) said it has signed an agreement on mineral rights of Belinga iron ore reserves with the Gabonese government. A joint venture company will run the Belinga mine and its suppor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has the dirtiest rivers and lakes while Shandong province spewed the highest amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2). The Tibet autonomous region remains the country's most pollution-free place, with no industrial polluta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian embassy in Kabul yesterday, killing 41 people, including the Indian military attache, in perhaps the deadliest attack in the Afghanistan capital since the fall of the Taliban. The massive blast,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Authorities are determined to prevent unauthorized companies and individuals from broadcasting Olympic events, an official from the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) said yesterday. No website, mobile phone platform or individual is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Eight people were arrested on Friday, for smuggling electronic products from Hong Kong to Shenzhen via a 600-m-long tunnel, border police here said yesterday. A joint operation carried out by police and customs officials from the two cities also led... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible, or just the New Testament, for free during the Olympic Games next month. Tens of thousands of copies of the Bible, the New Testament and booklets with only the four Gospels (accordi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Prospects of the G8 reaching a meaningful agreement on how to best fight global warming dimmed as leaders, with a long list of global problems, began gathering in northern Japan for their annual summit. Climate change is high on the agenda of the Ju... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The Olympic torch whisked along the Great Wall for the first time yesterday when torchbearers ran across the six-century-old Jiayu Pass at the western end of the 5,000-km wall. The Great Wall was the last part of the relay in Jiayuguan, a nearby cit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Ye Zhiping is not the type of man who waits for others to offer him assistance, he just rolls up his sleeves and gets on with it. The headmaster of Sangzao Middle School in Anxian county, Mianyang city, one of the worst-hit areas in the May 12 Sichu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 In 1954, when Shan Lun arrived in Yangling as a fresh college graduate, he found the place was no more than a backwater village with neither tap water nor electricity. Yesterday, however, the 75-year-old member of the China Academy of Engineering ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Family members of Li Shufen, the 17-year-old girl whose death late last month sparked violent protests over the weekend in Guizhou province, told reporters yesterday they were still waiting for the cause of her death. Up to 30,000 people took part i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Lester Blake is happy, but not for any breakthrough in his engineering profession. His source of happiness is a clean and tidy public toilet, with an automatic hand drier, soap, and, most important of all, toilet paper. When I first came to Beijing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a severe blow to Latin America's oldest left-wing insurgency. Betancourt, a dual French-Colombian citizen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The majority of participants in a public hearing yesterday agreed on the price of a ticket for the new Beijing airport rail - 25 yuan ($3.65). The hearing was made up of 25 academics, consumers and transport operators, as well as 10 observers. The o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The Mongolian government yesterday declared a four-day state of emergency to quell riots over alleged election frauds that have killed at least five people. Rifle-toting soldiers patrolled the streets and armored vehicles guarded intersections in Mo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The United States will work more closely with China to curb the illegal trade in wild animals and wildlife products, a senior US official told a press conference in Beijing. Claudia McMurray, assistant secretary of the bureau of oceans and internati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The Olympic torch started its Loess Plateau trip from Yan'an yesterday. It was taken to the peak of a mountain on which stands a pagoda built during the Tang Dynasty. It then crossed the Yanhe River to the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, a legendar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 A man is being held after he stabbed five policemen to death and wounded five others at a police station in Shanghai's Zhabei district yesterday. The 28-year-old suspect first stabbed a security guard to death at the police station around 9:40 am, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Zheng Jie created history at Wimbledon yesterday, becoming the first Chinese player to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament. The Chinese ace beat Nicole Vaidisova, of the Czech Republic, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 to set up a semifinal clash with form... 阅读全文>>