日期：2009-06-24 A pair of giant pandas sent as a gift from the mainland to Taiwan arrived on the island yesterday in the latest sign of rapidly improving relations across the Straits. The four-year old pandas - Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan - touched down at Taipei Taoyu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 A private TV project touting itself as a grassroots alternative to State broadcaster China Central Television's (CCTV) annual Spring Festival variety show - a mainstay for families celebrating the Lunar New Year - is fast gaining popularity, organiz... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 The Supreme People's Court is working on a guideline to unify standards for the issuing of the death penalty for five categories of crimes in a bid to ensure consistency across the country, a senior judge said on Sunday. The guideline will apply to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 The cold front that began on Friday has hit 16 provinces and regions, and is continuing to head south, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said yesterday. The icy weather, which hails from Siberia and Mongolia, will end its journey through... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 A real estate management official in Nanjing spotted in a photograph wearing a high-end luxurious wristwatch and smoking expensive cigarettes is under investigation, the local government said on its website on the weekend. The Jiangning district gov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 Their deployment as a makeshift missile robbed US President George Bush of his dignity and landed their owner in jail. But the world's most notorious pair of shoes has yielded an unexpected bonanza for a Turkish shoemaker. Ramazan Baydan, owner of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 College graduates' employment is on top of the government's agenda, Premier Wen Jiabao told students at a Beijing university on Saturday. The students present in the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Aerospace's library greeted his announcement... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 A new division is being planned to combat growing mafia-style gangs in the country, a senior official of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has said. Based on the resources of the existing organized crime investigation division, a special departm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 The extravagant beards and moustaches proudly sported by generations of Indian men are under threat, according to a new book that celebrates the country's finest facial hair. As India rapidly modernises, clean chins are becoming the rule among young... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 Artifacts from Beijing's Palace Museum and Taipei's National Palace Museum are on course to be displayed together after nearly six decades of separation. The 43-year-old Taipei museum, which has 650,000 pieces of antiques moved from the Palace Museu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 If Peter Pun had put a bet on how large Shenzhen would grow, it's more likely than not he would have lost it. When the then director of planning of Hong Kong first visited Shenzhen, in 1979, as an expert to train city planners, it was a fishing vill... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday for abandoning his mother in a public square over a year ago, the Zhabei district people's court said. Wang Kouma, 54, was found guilty of leaving his 83-year-old mother, Teng Jindi, at People's S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 A large number of the country's Internet users are not satisfied with government websites and want them to be more interactive and helpful, according to an online survey. The survey, jointly conducted by China Youth Daily and news portal Sina.com, r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 The retail price of gasoline has been cut by 0.91 yuan (13 US cents) per liter, and diesel by 1.08 yuan, as of midnight, the country's top economic planner announced Thursday. But the National Development and Reform Commission did not say how the re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 About 340 million people exercised regularly last year, with 250 million of them spending an average of 593 yuan ($88) on sport or sport-related activities. A State General Administration of Sport survey released yesterday said a record 28.2 percent... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 China signed a series of cooperation agreements with Angola yesterday, outlining its collaboration with the west African country and one of its largest sources of crude oil. President Hu Jintao and his Angolan counterpart Jose Eduardo dos Santos, of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 Today's celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening up should have been euphoric for the country and the world - for the benefits to both are all too apparent. Instead, amid the global economic gloom, they will be muted.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 Time magazine Wednesday named US President-elect Barack Obama its 2008 Person of the Year. For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 Media industry leaders in Asia have established a 460 million yuan ($67.2 million) fund to combat the global downturn for the next five years. Initiated by Hong Kong's Salon Films Group and unveiled during the recent Asia Media Festival (AMF) in Sin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-24 Yang Nan was like a cat on a hot tin roof a few months ago because he could not get the money to expand his business. The Beijing-based businessman needed 400,000 yuan as deposit to open the third restaurant in his chain that sells Xinjiang food. Bu... 阅读全文>>