日期：2009-06-23 Tsinghua University's de facto school of diving champions is not under threat of being disbanded and consigned to the annals of history, head coach Yu Fen said yesterday. Yu, who has sent about a dozen college divers to the national camp since her a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 China is all set to send a naval fleet on a mission to fight pirates in Somali waters, a military source told China Daily yesterday. There will be a significant peacekeeping operation (in Somalia), the source said, but did not reveal the scale of th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Direct links between the mainland and Taiwan may cut into Hong Kong's earnings for now, but the city could benefit from a cross-Straits business boom in the long run, economists said yesterday. Planes and ships crossing the Straits earlier had to pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The daily direct cross-Straits transport links that began yesterday would further facilitate exchanges and cut trade costs, experts on both sides said yesterday. The mainland and Taiwan started direct air, shipping and postal services yesterday to s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Construction of major projects in a 50-billion-yuan energy cluster, one of the largest coal chemical bases in Asia, started yesterday in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. The 3,500-sq-km cluster, known as Ningdong Energy-Chemical Base, in which tot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The Afghan journalists kept their shoes on. A day after an Iraqi reporter hurled a pair of shoes at US President George W. Bush, the American leader yesterday again held a news conference before a group of reporters from a country that the US invade... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) formed a tripartite partnership on Saturday to tackle the global financial crisis, Premier Wen Jiabao said after a historic three-way meeting in Fukuoka, Japan. We (China, Japan and ROK) are important eco... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Always concerned about staying in touch with her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II has invited Britain's royal family to follow her example and tighten the purse strings during the financial downturn. The 82-year-old monarch has warned her grandsons Prin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 China's economic stimulus package is constructive and its economy may grow faster next year than the World Bank forecast of 7.5 percent, bank president Robert Zoellick said yesterday. The initial action China has taken in terms of fiscal expansion a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 A new era in cross-Straits relations begins today with the launch of daily direct air, shipping and postal services. The end of a nearly six-decade ban on direct links imposed by Taipei is widely expected to strengthen growing economic ties and bene... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Chinese military strategists and international relations experts are debating whether China should dispatch its navy to the troubled waters off Somalia. The debate was first kicked off by Major-General Jin Yinan of the National Defense University, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Corruption cases have been on the increase in the past eight years despite stepped-up efforts to combat it, a research paper said. More senior officials have been involved with bribes getting bigger. Wang Rongli, a 42-year-old lawyer in Shenzhen, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Restaurants are usually the first to feel the chill of recession as Beijing's high-end eateries that depend on group reservations and banquets for business will tell you. The number of diners has dropped by two-thirds from Monday to Thursday and by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The global financial turmoil will top the agenda when leaders of China, Japan and South Korea meet this weekend, a senior Chinese official and experts said yesterday. Premier Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minist... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 HONG KONG: Health workers began culling thousands of chickens at a market here yesterday, a day after authorities raised the bird flu alert level to serious following an outbreak at a farm. The outbreak near the border with the mainland was the regi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp is reviewing its China operations amid a global layoff plan that will see 16,000 people lose jobs. Sony China said it will actively cooperate with the initiative by its headquarters in Japan, the largest workforc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Riot police clashed with demonstrators outside the Greek parliament yesterday as a general strike paralyzed the country, shutting down schools, hospitals and international flights and raising pressure on the government reeling from four days of riot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Government officials in Henan who fail to implement policies to control the disproportionate sex ratio at birth will be ineligible for promotion and could be demoted, a spokesman for the provincial population and family planning commission said yest... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Three chickens found dead on Monday have tested positive for bird flu, prompting authorities to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, a senior official said yesterday. We feel that Hong Kong is facing a new threat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 After beginning a campaign to improve the environment and enhance the wellbeing of its residents in 2005, Haikou today ranks among the most livable cities in the nation, according to local government. Haikou, the provincial capital of Hainan provinc... 阅读全文>>