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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will open three new subway lines for trial operation by Sunday to ease traffic and cope with the passenger surge during the Olympic Games. ...

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China is trying its best to facilitate foreign media's coverage of the Olympics, said Beijing Olympic Games' spokesman Guo Weimin here on Thurs...

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- For Adriaa, a South African tourist, a few sips of tea in a bar featuring Chinese horticulture and framed windows meant more than just an evening's...

By Xinhua Writers Lou Chen and Zhang Duo BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- About a century ago, China's last emperor Puyi removed wooden door sills in his palace for a ...

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Many Chinese people have turned away from CDs and now choose digital music like cyber music and Personalized Ring Back Tone instead, a survey report re...

HONG KONG, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The composite interest rate in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region rose to 0.85 percent at the end of June, from 0.75 percent at the end of M...

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The Boeing Company on Thursday signed an agreement to sell 15 777-300ER and 30 next-generation 737-800 jetliners to Air China. ...

HONG KONG, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's banking system is robust and no fundamental deficiencies in the regulatory and supervisory framework or processes have been identifie...

UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, commander of the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping force in Sudan, on Thursday welcomed the arrival of the 172 Chinese enginee...

KHARTOUM, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese engineers arrived in west Sudan's Darfur region Thursday, completing the deployment of a Chinese engineering unit in the war-tor...

By Ma Jie BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- With the Beijing Games just around the corner, China's Olympic football squad is yet to finalize the roster to play at its doorst...

By Sportswriter Qi Zijian BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese weightlifters, who scooped five gold medals apiece in Sydney and Athens, are gearing up for a better show in ...

By Sportswriter Wang Jingyu BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Despite a disappointing fifth finish in the 2008 World Grand Prix Finals, hosts China were determined to defend the...

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- A Beijing municipal government-run website was launched Wednesday to help worldwide athletes, referees, officials, journalists and tourists easily find...

MADRID, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) announced on Wednesday that they will be holding the meeting of their Board of Directors on Thursday morning to fix ...

neighborhood BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- About 400 salespeople from 56 shops in Beijing's largest Muslim neighborhood have received training on simple conversation in Arabic, ...

BEIJING, July 17 -- No matter what the weather does, the skies will be clear over Shanghai as it hosts football matches as part of the Beijing Olympic Games. The city gover...

By Cai Yongjun and Chen Mengyang SHENYANG, Northeast China, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Liu Hongtu, whose father Liu Changchun was China's first Olympian, opened a Beijing Olymp...

SHENYANG, Northeast China, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic torch finished its tour in Shenyang at 10:18 a.m. on Thursday. The Olympic torch relay in Shenyang is the first l...

BEIJING, July 17 -- Public swimming pools have been urged to strengthen security checks this summer, according to the Shanghai Social Sports Administrative Center yesterday. ...

BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- If bad weather threatens the August 8 opening of Beijing's Olympic Games, then meteorologists may change the weather, according to a Chinese meteor...

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official visited security checkpoints in Beijing and neighboring Hebei province on Monday, stressing both "strictness" and ...

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Banners, such as those saying "Go China," will not be allowed in Olympic venues. While such posters have been frequently seen during the Olympi...

TOKYO, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese people are looking forward to the Beijing Olympics and wish the games a great success, Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono ...

WELLINGTON, July 16 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's overseas investment watchdog on Wednesday approved a Chinese conglomerate'sbid to buy New Zealand electricity company Vector&#...

FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom, July 15 (Xinhua) -- One of China's leading aircraft manufacturers signed a framework contract with Airbus on Tuesday to jointly produce aircraft co...

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- A Taiwan official was reported on Tuesday as saying the island was set to host a maximum of 5,000 Chinese mainland tourists each day next year, an incr...

BEIJING, July 16 -- The chance of rain during the opening ceremony is slimmer than reported earlier, but thunderstorms, high temperatures and muggy skies still pose a threat to the...

BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Hu Jintao, chairman of the Central Military Commission of China, on Tuesday raised the rank of three People's Liberation Army (PLA) senior officers...

LONDON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- China's trade and investment in Africa benefit not only Africans, but the European and the United States as well, a British researcher has said. ...