日期：2009-06-19 Four months after the disastrous Sichuan earthquake, only one of 88 orphaned children eligible for adoption has found a new home, announced Sichuan officials. Zhang Anyun, a 10-year-old pupil with the Hanwang Central Primary School in Mianzhu, was a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 The Bush administration seized control Sunday of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, aiming to stabilize the housing market turmoil that is threatening the economy. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is betting that providing fresh ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Trade between China and Pacific island countries is expected to reach $2 billion by the end of this year, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said Sunday. The two sides aim to increase trade to $3 billion by 2010, Chen told the ministerial conference o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 China, Japan and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) will sign an agreement to establish an information sharing mechanism on nuclear safety in Tokyo today. Representatives from the nuclear regulatory bodies of the three countries have ag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Syria and Israel have postponed a crucial round of indirect peace talks due to the resignation of the chief Israeli negotiator, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday. But Turkey, which is acting as mediator, said they should resume later t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-19 Poor design, substandard materials and other defects could have caused many school buildings to collapse in the May 12 earthquake, an official said yesterday. A rush to build schools in recent years might have led to the construction flaws, Ma Zongj... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 China has submitted a report on last year's defense expenditure to the United Nations to make its military spending more transparent and to build greater trust with other countries. This is China's second report to the UN since it joined the world b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The Chinese government may raise the poverty line to enable more people to get State benefits, officials and experts announced yesterday. The State Council, or the country's cabinet, will discuss the proposal by the end of the year, Renmin Universit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The country is racing against time to rebuild homes and set up temporary shelters for many of the 1.2 million people displaced by the Panzhihua earthquake. A senior civil affairs official said yesterday that reconstruction could begin only in the mi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The Thai government yesterday declared a state of emergency in Bangkok to restore order after a person was killed and 43 injured in overnight clashes between opponents and supporters of the government. The military has now been empowered to restore... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The coastal city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province plans to give employment priority to retired athletic champions of domestic and international competitions. The city recently announced its employment plan for retired athletes. Thats because others... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 Heritage conservation is well under way in the Three Gorges dam area in preparation for the rise of the water level from 156 m to 175 m. Measures will be taken amid the moving of towns and buildings, and garbage removal, to conserve delicate artifac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 Japan's rapidly aging society is forecast to lead to shortfalls in young people, workers and tax revenues. But theres also another shortage: crematoria. The number of people dying annually in Japan rose to 1.1 million in 2007, with nearly all of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The United States has questioned China's pork subsidies in a letter posted on the website of the World Trade Organization (WTO), reflecting new tension between the two trading giants. The letter, which appeared on the site last week, argues that por... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian said yesterday he had done nothing wrong after a prosecutor questioned him for more than four hours about a bribery case involving his family. The family is suspected of depositing at least T$1 billion ($31.7 m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The development of China's railway network will include the construction of 548 railway stations within the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10), a senior official from the Ministry of Railways, said yesterday. Twenty-eight new stations have already... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted two former principals of China's largest bank, of embezzlement and money laundering on Friday in the biggest case of its kind since 1949. Xu Chaofan and Xu Guojun, who have been resident in the United States for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 Hurricane Gustav sent strong winds and lashing rains into New Orleans early yesterday, but the storm lost some of its power and was expected to move ashore to the west, sparing the city its full force. Gustav weakened to a Category 2 hurricane short... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in Sichuan province announced that 11-year-old panda Lun Lun gave birth to a cub in Zoo Atlanta in the United States at 10:11 am Beijing time yesterday. It was her second birth since the base and the US... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 More than 400,000 Beijingers have joined an online discussion about whether to keep traffic restrictions introduced for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Nearly half of those taking part wanted to see the restrictions - an alternating odd-even licen... 阅读全文>>