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Macao's six gaming concessionaires and sub-concessionaires Wednesday sat face-to-face for the first time to discuss gaming market regulations in a special meeting initiated by ...

The People's Bank of China, the central bank, said Wednesday the financial market remained stable in the first four months with bond issuance up 43.7 percent year-on-year. ...

Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan reached 43.91 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of this year, up 21.7 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of C...

Trade between the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) reached 62.98 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of 2008, up 9.3 percent year-...

Trade between China's mainland and the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) reached 630 million U.S. dollars in the first quarter of 2008, a 2-percent rise year-on-year, ...

BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao announced here on Wednesday the central government will allocate 70 billion yuan (10.14 billion U.S. dollars) this year for a reconst...

MANAMA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The third ministerial meeting of China-Arab Cooperation Forum ended Wednesday evening and adopted a communique, an action plan for 2008 to 2010 and two c...

CHENGDU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang ordered on Tuesday the production and supply of more tents and makeshift houses to shelter millions of homeless quake vi...

MILAN - AC Milan will not allow World Player of the Year Kaka to play as an over-age player for Brazil at August's Beijing Olympics, the Serie A club said on Sunday. Inter...

BEIJING - Olympic champion Xing Huina will not defend her women's 10,000 metres title on home soil at the Beijing Olympics in August because of a leg injury, the Chinese Athlet...

The Chinese government is grappling with the next urgent task in the aftermath of last week's 8.0-magnitude deadly earthquake -- how to shelter up to 5 million residents in Sic...

Monday morning in Beijing was different. State networks broadcasted news bulletins with black backgrounds, while KTV parlors and nightclubs closed for the night before midnight. Ev...

CHENGDU -- A total of eight pandas selected to entertain tourists at the Olympic Games period, are expected to leave for Beijing on May 24 as scheduled, despite the quake hitting t...

Local residents mourn the dead in the killer earthquake at the Hongshan Square, Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province on May 17, 2008. [Xinhua] BEIJING -- Flags are to ...

CHENGDU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang ordered on Tuesday the production and supply of more tents and makeshift houses to shelter millions of homeless quake vi...

BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- China will procure and deliver more tents and awnings to quake-affected provinces this month and in June. This was announced at the 11th meeting...

BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Finance said Monday it had allocated 2.5 billion yuan (357 million U.S. dollars) in temporary allowances to support quake victims. ...

BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- China's top anti-graft official said here on Tuesday that newly built schools in quake-stricken areas must be of high quality and more quake-resista...

HEFEI, East China, May 18 (Xinhua) -- As England's Ali Carter beat Marco Fu of Chinese Hong Kong 5-3 in the final of the 2008 Huangshan Cup Snooker All-star Game, mainland ace ...

By Sportswriter Zhang Rongfeng JINGGANGSHAN MOUNTAINS, Jiangxi Province, May 15 (Xinhua) – As the Olympic flame shed lights Thursday on Jianggangshan Mountains, the relay...

BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Organizers of the Beijing Olympic Games said Tuesday that a minute's silence will be observed during future stops of the torch relay to mourn the vi...

By Ma Xiangfei BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) on Tuesday expressed condolences to the earthquake victims in Sichu...

TIANJIN, China, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Huang Yubin, the head coach of the Chinese gymnastics national team, expressed his satisfaction over the draw for the men's gymnastics team c...

WUXI, China, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese women's basketball team outplayed visiting Poland 91-72 in Wuxi, Southeast China, on Thursday, winning seven of the eight games played s...

CHANGCHUN, Northeast China, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Ding Ning, one of China's youngest table tennis stars, said she hoped to win an Olympic gold medal, most likely after the 2008 Ga...

BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- China's women hockey team will be on a tough way to struggle for medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympic women's hockey tournament since it has been p...

"What else can I do?" has been the question on everyone's mind since the deadly quake hit Sichuan Province. The 7-day search-and- rescue efforts have put more strain...

A man trapped in a mine following a powerful earthquake that jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province a week ago was saved alive on Monday. Rescuers said they heard a feeb...

SHAOXING, China, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Xu Yuhua, China's chess champion torchbearer, said Saturday that she was proud of being one of the torch bearers in Shaoxing leg in South Ch...

SHAOXING, China, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Miquel Ribalta, a foreign torch bearer of Shaoxing leg in south China's Zhejiang province, said Saturday that he was excited to be a torch b...