ablevision Systems Corp. is close to buying the Long Island newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million (€420.49 million), a person with knowledge of the situation said Sunday, according to AP. The deal, which could be announced as soon
Hundreds of journalists, columnists and interested citizens gathered over the weekend to focus attention on protecting press freedom in Lebanon and to condemn the burning of the Future Movement's media conglomerate offices by opposition gunmen during Friday clashes between feuding
SHANGHAI: A company to build large passenger aircraft was unveiled yesterday, a key step forward in the country's ambitious project to produce homemade jumbo jets.Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (CACC) will be responsible f ...
The president of the newly-established Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (CACC) said its guiding principle of becoming an independent, competitive civil aircraft manufacturer will not affect the company's openness to internationa ...
Domestic grain prices have remained stable amid hikes in international prices, official figures have showed.Wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade surged more than 140 percent in March, while rice prices jumped more than 80 percent. ...
The Chinese community in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon is taking part in the cyclone relief work along with the Myanmar people with three major local Chinese associations having successively donated through the authorities concerned to s ...
The debate on the criterion of truth paved the way for China's reform and opening-up drive, Chinese scholars said in commemoration of the 1978 debate. The debate, made possible by the support of Deng Xiaoping and other senior leader ...
China should unswervingly adhere to self- innovation in research and development of large aircraft, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. China's first ever jumbo passenger aircraft company was officially inaugurated in Shanghai on Sunda ...
The authorities have phased out the use of methyl bromide as a fumigant for grain storage in a bid to protect the ozone layer, an official from the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said over the weekend.Methyl bromide is an
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Sunday China condemned the attacks by a Darfur rebel group on Sudanese capital Khartoum. Qin said in a press release that China condemned the attacks which led to casualties of civ ...
Editor's note: More than 100 Chinese artists sent a joint letter to counterparts worldwide inviting them to Beijing for a celebration of arts and sports during the Olympic Games in August. Below is a translation of the full text:Let's M
A research center on World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism was set up in Shanghai on Sunday, the first of its kind in the country. The China-WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism Center (CWTODSMC) will offer suggest ...
Sales growth of external hard drives slowed in China in the first quarter, as a result of the traditional low sales season. Sales of external hard drives hit 506,900 units in the first three months, up 28.9 percent year on
China, with a large economic size, would not face recession after the Olympic Games, the World Bank's new chief economist Justin Yifu Lin said on Sunday. Some Olympics hosts experienced post-Olympic decline because investment dropp ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda signed the China-Japan Joint Statement on Advancing the Strategic Relationship of Mutual Benefit last Wednesday during Hu's state visit to Japan. This is the fourth politi ...
A new smoking ban introduced in Beijing since May 1 that covers public places including hotels and parks has cut the number of fires in the city sparked by cigarette butts by more than half, fire authorities have said.In the
Seven people died and another five were injured when a residential house in southwest China's Yunnan Province caught fire early on Sunday. Police said they suspected arson, but declined to give details. Fire broke out in a h ...
A police wagon ran down seven pedestrians on a highway in central China's Hubei Province on Saturday night, killing three of them, the local government said. The four injured are being treated at the People's Hospital in Tongcheng C ...
Chinese companies' foreign direct investment expanded 353 percent in the first quarter compared with the same 2007 period as domestic firms sought out a more open global market. The investment hit 19.34 billion U.S. dollars in the f ...
Beijing is using the carrot of huge rewards to enlist citizens to report Olympic logo infringement cases in the run-up to the Games. A person who steps forward with information will be rewarded with five percent of what lawbreakers ...
