日期：2009-06-26 On buttons, posters and websites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE. Desi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 A severe drought continued to hit several regions in the country yesterday, leaving at least 3.7 million people short of water and endangering crop yields of at least seven major grain-producing provinces, the authorities said yesterday. The dry spe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 A debate was raging across the nation yesterday after a senior official demanded China Central Television (CCTV) change its 30-year-old logo because it breaks regulations. Wang Dengfeng, director of the spoken and written Chinese language applicatio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 She does not know how long the shopping frenzy will last, but Liu Feifei certainly enjoyed yesterday - when she sold two days' stock in just one morning. Ferrero Rocher sales agent Liu told China Daily that on a normal day no more than 50 boxes of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 Three policemen were injured when a mob attacked a rural police station in Anhui province on Sunday, an officer said yesterday. A man surnamed Song allegedly directed 30 relatives to block the gate of Baiqiao police station in He county, Chaohu city... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 Four papers on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) were retracted by international journals last year because of plagiarism and fake research, it was reported yesterday. Each paper had the same lead author, He Haibo, associate professor with Zhejiang... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 The Foreign Ministry yesterday confirmed both sides were working closely on a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to China, amid expectations of a buildup to a new level in bilateral ties. Maintaining high-level visits between China and t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 SHANGHAI: The city's recent plan to further escalate the role of its Lujiazui financial and trade zone is good news for financial talents from home and abroad, but a prudent approach and adequate screening is especially necessary, warned an economis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-26 China voiced strong dissatisfaction yesterday over an incident during Premier Wen Jiabao's speech at Cambridge University on Monday, labeling the interruption despicable. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Wen's speech, entitled See China in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 A government survey revealed that 20 million migrant workers recently lost their jobs, posing the risk of social instability, a senior official said yesterday. Some 15.3 percent of China's 130 million migrant workers became jobless, according to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Premier Wen Jiabao sounded a note of optimism yesterday in London and pointed to signs of economic recovery in China as indicating there is light at the end of the tunnel regarding the ongoing global financial crisis. In some places people are disap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 For Chinese children with cleft lips, their ship - or in this case, train - has finally come in. A US-based charity called Smile Train has pledged to banish the congenital condition from the mainland and has begun by providing free surgery to 160,00... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps issued an apology on Sunday after a British newspaper published a photograph purportedly showing him smoking marijuana. But that might not be enough for some sports officials and fans who claim he has t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 The woman who gave birth to octuplets last week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. Angela Suleman said she was not sup... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Family members of some of the Chinese tourists killed or injured in a bus accident in Arizona on Friday are expected to leave for the United States tomorrow armed with a lawyer and a doctor. They will be accompanied by members of local government an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Seventeen people were killed and 22 were injured on Saturday in a fire at a bar in Changle, Fujian province, the local government said at a press conference yesterday. The blaze broke out shortly before midnight when a group of seven people lit fire... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in the British capital on Saturday for an official visit aimed at enhancing bilateral financial cooperation. Recent years have seen (an) enhanced China-Britain comprehensive strategic partnership and fruitful cooperation i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Capital punishment for two, a suspended death penalty for one, life imprisonment for three, 15-year jail terms for two and varying sentences for the 13 other accused. Those were the verdicts passed by five courts yesterday in the melamine contaminat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Police in Yiyang, Hunan province, discovered 400,000 yuan in fake banknotes on a coach on Tuesday during a routine highway patrol, Beijing News reported yesterday. A cache of forged 100-yuan notes was found inside a cardboard box on a coach travelin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-25 Heavy snow brought on by the coldest temperatures so far this year caused chaos for thousands of travelers in North China yesterday. More than 30 flights were delayed at Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province. The ai... 阅读全文>>