Despite meetings this week in Beijing between senior American and Chinese officials, China is repeating its call to the United States to fix strained relations between the two countries.
China describes Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg’s two-day fence-mending visit to Beijing as candid and in depth.
But, if there has been an improvement in ties [...]
Health officials are considering a new strategy that they say could effectively kill off HIV/AIDS within 40 years.
The proposal is spearheaded by Professor Brian Williams of the South African Center for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis (SECEMA). It calls for blanket HIV testing for most of the world’s population, and those found HIV positive would [...]
An American woman serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering her banker husband has won a retrial.
Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal ruled Thursday that the murder trial of Nancy Kissel was flawed and ordered that she be held in custody while undergoing a new trial.
Kissel’s lawyers had argued that prosecutors used improper [...]
China is urging the US government to cancel plans for President Barack Obama to meet next week with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu issued a statement Friday, urging the United States to, in his words, “immediately withdraw” plans for a meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama.
Ma [...]
As basic welfare and special care for netizen in China, some sensitive news stories on Chinese Internet portals are not open for comments. The list below comes from 163.com . All these entries were posted in 2009, some of them may have been deleted:
The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour is on its way to the International Space Station.
NASA launched the shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center on the Atlantic coast in Florida early Monday. A Sunday morning launch had been called off because of poor weather at the launch site.
The six astronauts aboard the shuttle arescheduled to deliver [...]
India’s economy is expected to grow by 7.2 per cent this year. The latest forecast indicates that economic recovery is on track in Asia’s third largest economy.
Government estimates released Monday indicate strong growth in the industrial and services sector is helping the economy rebound after slowing in the wake of the global financial crisis.
The forecast [...]
“1235 airlines,
80,000-kilometer railway,
3,730,000-kilometer road,
and enormous number of rivers,
like blood vessels spread,
dedicated to the peak of public transport in the Spring Festival travel season,
year by year.
150,000,000 Chinese people left their family,
to cities, big cities, the capital city,
for better jobs, better schools and hospitals,
now they are on their way home.
Seeing the whistling trains come close,
please salute,
to one [...]
Duke and the city of Kunshan have partnered to build a campus scheduled to be completed in 2011.
Via news.duke.edu
The planned campus in Kunshan
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University has forged new cooperative partnerships in China which will significantly increase the university’s presence in that country and create new opportunities for education, research and public service.
The partnership [...]
Google threatened to end its operations in China after it discovered that the e-mail accounts of human rights activists had been breached.
The company said it had detected a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China.” Google says further investigation revealed that “a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the [...]
