Chinese students in US - 150 years ago

2011-04-01 11:27:49

Leibovitz, who now teaches science communication at NY University, could not believe that the Chinese were studying in Yale as early as the 19th century.

Asian studies exhibition alive and well

2011-04-01 11:27:49

Peter Leimbigler, a Canadian Chinese and a language linguist, showed off his unique software known as "KEY" at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) that works intuitively for Chinese language learners.

US educators praise e-governance in China

2011-04-01 11:27:49

Public expression and interaction with the government regarding public policy has increased in recent years, experts said

Fewer US women dying of lung cancer -study

2011-04-01 09:58:34

Lung cancer death rates among women in the United States fell for the first time in four decades, trailing a similar decline in men that started a decade ago

Russian billionaire buys $100m Silicon Valley home

2011-04-01 09:48:11

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, bought the lavish, 25,500-square-foot (2,369-square-meter) mansion in Los Altos Hills, California.

WTO:US aid to Boeing is illegal

2011-04-01 09:45:13

Boeing Co. received at least $5.3 billion in prohibited US subsidies to develop and build new planes.

Obese man cut out of US home, dies

2011-04-01 09:40:28

Media reports say a morbidly obese man who hadn't moved from his recliner in two years and had to be cut out of his home when he fell ill has died.

Severe weather hits Florida

2011-04-01 07:47:56

Severe weather moves in over the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 31, 2011.

Japan seeks French, US expertise in nuke crisis

2011-04-01 06:54:33

Japan is increasingly turning to other countries for help as it struggles to stabilize its tsunami-stricken nuclear plant and stop radiation leaks...

What are US criteria for involvement in Libya?

2011-03-31 12:39:29

Some observers ask why the United States has not taken issue with Syria or the Ivory Coast, for example.

FBI probes possible bullet hole in US Air plane

2011-03-31 11:25:25

The FBI is investigating what might be a bullet hole, discovered in the side of a US Airways Group Inc plane this week, the airline said on Wednesday.

Is China forging a modern Eastern self?

2011-03-31 10:39:29

For more than a century, the world has defined modernity as quintessentially Western.