Nigeria is making steady progress towards becoming a cashless society as the value of electronic payment in the country in 2006 stood at 360 billion naira (about 2. 81 billion U.S. dollars). There has been a very modest move from

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang confirmed here Saturday night that the seven Chinese kidnapped in Pakistan i capital of Islamabad were released around 8 p.m. Saturday ( Beijing Time). "They have arrived at the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad, with

are seen training horses at a racecourse in Shi Zuishan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region June 23, 2007. A team of 15 young mounted policewomen has been set up there to serve in patrol, military parade and equestrian events. (Xinhua

Chinese construction enterprises can tender for projects directly in Saudi Arab ia, according to an agreement signed by China and Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The memorandum of understanding on engineering project cooperation, signed by Vice Minister of Municipal and Rural

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner welcomed a last-minute European Union treaty deal reached early Saturday and said Europe has been back on its way. Europe has been "back on its way" after an agreement was reached at a summit in

The Islamic Hamas movement said that President Mahmoud Abbas ' security forces on Sunday detained 18 of its members in different West Bank areas. The movement said in a statement that militants belonging to Abbas security forces and Fatah movement

Baby elephant Migara, a gift of friendship from Sri Lanka to China in February this year, celebrated his sixth birthday at the Beijing Zoo Saturday. With a red ribbon on head, the male elephant received birthday wishes from both Chinese

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) on Saturday lashed out at the United States for deploying 20 F-16 fighter jets in South Korea. It is a very dangerous military provocation by massively reinforcing the air force in

Professor Robert Mundell, widely dubbed "father of the Euro", said in Beijing Saturday that constant pressure from the United States on China to appreciate its currency Renminbi can be interpreted as "a move to slow China's expansion". The 1999 Nobel

Gordon Brown, Britain's new Labor Party leader and prime minister in three days, announced a new constitutional settlement for country on Sunday afternoon after being crowned officially by the party at a special conference. The principles of his reforms are

Thousands of anti-junta demonstrators marched Saturday afternoon to the Army Headquarters in central Bangkok, which houses the military Council for National Security (CNS), calling the CNS to step down. The march, led by the group Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship (DAAD),

On June 5th, China.com published an article titled "Attention: Microsoft Stealing Chinese state secrets,": which immediately became a hot topic for discussion. Is Microsoft's operating system, reported by Norton through the "back door":, built with a secret surveillance program on

Seven dead birds discovered near two lakes in southern Germany tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, media reported Sunday. The dead birds were found in two Bavarian lakes, which were cordoned off after the find, the first cases

Head of Shin Bet ( Israel i Security Agency) Yuval Diskin warned at weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that Hamas is weighing the option of carrying out a terror attack in Israel despite the current calm in the Gaza Strip.

Ismail Haneya, Prime Minister of the unity government sacked by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last week, on Friday called on Fatah movement for an unconditional national dialogue. Haneya manifested his demand in a telephone conversation with Yemen i President Ali

Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, became leader of the ruling Labor Party on Sunday afternoon at a special Labor conference here in central Britain. He is also to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister after the latter left