日期：2009-06-19 The head of the firm that operated the bus that ran off a cliff on Saturday in Bazhong, Sichuan province, killing 51 people, was sacked yesterday. Xian Guangzong, Party secretary of Bazhong Transport (Group) Co Ltd, was told to resign at a conferenc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 More than 460,000 people in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces have been forced to evacuate due to Typhoon Sinlaku, which earlier battered Taiwan, leaving four people dead and seven others missing. Sinlaku, the 13th tropical storm of the year in China, h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Parents in four areas of England will be able to check under a pilot scheme launched yesterday, whether new partners or other people with significant access to their children are sex offenders. The initiative allows police and probation services to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 When Wall Street woke up yesterday, two more of its fancied firms had fallen. Investors reeled under the triple whammy of the insolvency of Lehman Brothers, the shock sale of Merrill Lynch, and the disclosure that AIG, the world's largest insurance... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 A Guangdong man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for defrauding eight middle-aged women of 4 million yuan ($585,000) in one of the biggest fraud cases of the year. The Southern Metropolis Daily reported Thursday that Ye Rihai of Xuwen county... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Sanlu Group has recalled about 700 tons of its baby milk, after an infant diagnosed with kidney stones who was fed the food, died in Gansu province yesterday. One of the country's largest dairy products' makers said its baby milk had been contaminat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Relatives of victims killed at the World Trade Center have commemorated the seventh anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks. Moments of silence were observed to mark the times that two hijacked jetliners crashed into the twin towers and the moments the b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has brushed aside a survey that showed him losing support among white women voters to John McCain since the Republican standard-bearer named Sarah Palin as his running mate. A Washington Post/ABC News s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Bringing forward the launch date of China's third manned spacecraft by one month will maximize conditions for the country's highly anticipated inaugural spacewalk, experts have said. The Shenzhou VII spacecraft was first scheduled for take off from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Hopes of survival of the hundreds of people buried in Monday's landslide in Shanxi province is almost zero, the country's top safety administrator said yesterday, as the death toll in the disaster rose to 128. State Administration of Work Safety Min... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 A suggestion that the weeklong National Day holiday be scrapped has sparked heated debate. Cai Jiming, a professor with Tsinghua University, told the Guangzhou-based Yangcheng Evening News on Monday that when conditions get better the holiday should... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles could be aimed at the US missile defense shield in Europe, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces said Wednesday. I cannot rule out that, in case the top military-political leadership makes suc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Products with more than three layers of packaging or those that occupy less than 45 percent of package space will be banned if a draft regulation is passed as law. Such products can neither be produced nor sold in the country, says the draft, put up... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Suicide is the leading cause of death for Chinese people aged 15 to 34, and the fifth biggest killer - after cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and accidental death - among all age groups, a report by the Chinese Association for Men... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Thailand's Constitutional Court yesterday ordered Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign, accusing him of breaking the law by hosting cooking shows on TV while in office. The defendant has violated Article 267 of the constitution, and his positio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 A man who was detained for five days for scalping a railway ticket and subsequently lost his job has been vindicated and awarded compensation by a court in Zhengzhou, Henan province. In a verdict given at the end of last month, but made public yeste... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 The Guangdong provincial government is working on a system to provide relief aid within 24 hours to people hit by natural disasters. The relief storage system is expected to be in place within three years. An official of the Guangdong emergency mana... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Enhanced mutual understanding and trust is needed for the world to have a more objective view and knowledge of China, Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, said yesterday. To achieve this, he said the channel for mutual commun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Corrupt officials who flee the country are more likely to be convicted overseas as the government seeks closer judicial cooperation with more nations, procuratorial officials and legal experts said on Monday. Tong Jianming, spokesman for the Supreme... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 About 3 million Britons are being cheated of 3.5 billion pounds ($6.16 billion) a year by fraudsters who solicit money by letter, e-mail, text and telephone, the UK Office of Fair Trading, said yesterday. Fewer than one in 20 victims report their ex... 阅读全文>>