Higher age for retiring urged
2013-04-09 00:03:14
China should adjust its family planning policy and raise the retirement age to address the issue of its aging population, the former national social security fund chairman said on Sunday.
China can 'learn from US on shale gas'
2013-04-08 23:41:59
The success of the shale gas "revolution" in the United States can be copied in other countries, including China, but the difficulties will determine how soon that can be achieved.
China vexed by soaring trade frictions
2013-04-08 23:02:54
Rising alongside the foreign trade volume, trade remedy probes are vexing China, saddling the world's second-largest economy with the work of easing a "growing pain".
British former PM Thatcher dies
2013-04-08 20:44:30
British former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her spokesman announced Monday.
China vows further cooperation with IMF
2013-04-08 18:39:13
Chinese President Xi Jinping said countries need to enhance coordination on macroeconomic policies while focusing on development issues.
Xi warns against chaos in region
China to sustain relatively high economic growth
China's market environment 'fair'
H7N9 fatalities rise to 7 in China
2013-04-08 18:32:44
A 64-year-old man in Shanghai became the seventh Chinese who have died from the H7N9 avian flu. Two new cases have been confirmed in Jiangsu province.
Boy, 4, recovers from H7N9
China starts H7N9 vaccine development
No epidemic link among H7N9 infections
Microsoft to launch 1st mainland innovation center
2013-04-08 15:12:14
Microsoft is expected to establish an innovation center in South China's Hainan province, the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland.
Hyundai-Kia to recall record 2m cars in S. Korea, US
2013-04-08 14:58:06
Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors planned to recall more than 2 million vehicles in South Korea and the United States for stop-lamp defects.
President Xi: China's market environment 'fair'
2013-04-08 14:25:15
China's market environment is fair and there is no finishing line to improve market economy, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2013.
China to sustain relatively high economic growth
President wants more deals with Australia
China's economic growth benefits world
DPRK preparing for 4th nuke test
2013-04-08 13:45:32
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) might be preparing for its fourth nuclear test, the Republic of Korea's unification minister said Monday.US delays missile test to avoid tensions
Panelists say housing market won't crash
2013-04-08 11:41:38
A meltdown in China's housing market is unlikely because government policies will keep rising prices in check, a Columbia University business conference was told.
Helicopter with 13 aboard crashes in Peru
2013-04-08 11:25:48
A helicopter with nine employees of French oil company Perenco and four crew members aboard -- all Peruvians -- crashed in a remote jungle in Peru's northeastern province of Loreto Sunday, and no surviviors have been found, Perenco said in a statement.