日期：2009-06-20 Following on from the Internet shopping phenomenon, people in the South China city of Guangzhou are now trading their ideas online. Increasing numbers of professionals are flocking to witkey websites, which allow users to exchange services and infor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 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 July 1, another forensic psychiatric assessment at his second trial yesterday. Presiding judge Xu Wei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 Global stock markets rebounded strongly yesterday after last week's historic sell-off as governments from Europe to Australia to the US intensified efforts to ease a financial crisis that threatened to throw the world into recession. The benchmark S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 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 in Beijing yesterday. The target was set at the close of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 17th Communi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the world's financial system was near a meltdown, amid France promising that a meeting of European leaders in Paris would detail measures to keep a market panic from triggering the most severe gl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or the DPRK) said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed it from a list of states that Washington says sponsor terrorism. The DPRK's Foreign Mini... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 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 sequencing the genome, we have laid the genetic and biological foundation to gain a deeper understandin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for works characterized by poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy and focused on the environment, especially the desert. Le Clezio, 68, is the first French writer t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program yesterday to address the increasingly worrying effects of climate change in the Himalayas. The rapid melting of snow and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 An emergency round of interest rate cuts and governments' support for ailing banks won only muted market support, as most bourses worldwide continued their downward spiral yesterday. There was little sign that Wednesday's rate cuts had unlocked mone... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 China must use graphic picture warnings and expand health messages on cigarette packs to alert more people to the dangers of smoking, according to health experts. The country is scheduled to introduce new cigarette pack designs next year with bigger... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 The authorities yesterday set standards for melamine levels in milk and associated food products to allay fears following a contaminated milk powder scandal. The limits were set at 1 mg per kg for infant formula, and 2.5 mg per kg for other dairy pr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 Following other economies, China cut the benchmark deposit and lending rates by 0.27 of a percentage point yesterday to anchor its economy amid a worsening global financial crisis. The reserve requirement ratio, or proportion of money commercial ban... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 Top leaders yesterday paid tribute to heroes of the devastating Sichuan earthquake, calling for the quake relief spirit to be kept alive. President Hu Jintao urged the nation to carry on the spirit of unity, courage and people-first thinking that ch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 Despite a business world currently gripped by fear and panic, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business is initiating an ambitious global expansion plan mainly targeting China. Shanghai is high on the US university's expansion list, which is much l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 The Beijing municipal authorities have raised pump prices by up to 4 percent to cover the cost of cleaner fuel. Since yesterday, gasoline prices in Beijing have gone up by 200 yuan ($29.18) per ton, or more than 2 percent, with the increase dependin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations is no longer effective and should be replaced by a steering group that includes emerging economic powers like China, India and Brazil, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Monday. In a speech ahead of mee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 Police in Liuzhen town in Beijing's Changping district have been assigned to patrol farmlands for sand thieves who have destroyed massive patches of cropland and threatened villagers' lives, the local government said. Farmers said the thieves have b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 A list of China's 10 oldest people was announced for the first time by the China Gerontology Association on Monday, ahead of Seniors Day yesterday. The 121-year-old Sadiq Sawut from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region topped the list as the oldest... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-20 China, South Korea, Japan and ASEAN countries may speed up the creation of an $80 billion fund to safeguard regional financial stability, a move that reflects increasing concern about US and global financial prospects, analysts said. South Korea's D... 阅读全文>>