As summer approaches and you get ready to slather on the sunscreen, don't forget that your eyes need shielding too. As well as damaging skin, excessive exposure to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays can also harm the lens and cornea of the eyes. Beyond the health factor, there's also a glamour bonus (...)
Authorities say 40 miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in southwestern China.
Provincial officials say 28 miners were killed in a blast Saturday afternoon at a coal mine in Sichuan province. They say 108 people were working underground at the time.
Less than 24 hours earlier, (...)
Benchmark U.S. crude-oil futures held steady Thursday, sticking with the $96 level after a smaller-than-expected increase in U.S. crude supplies helped earlier to push prices to their highest level in more than month.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 1 cent at $96.63 a barrel in electronic trade (...)
Ford Motor Co. F +0.71% and its joint ventures in China sold 75,331 vehicles in the country in April, up 37% from a year earlier, thanks to strong demand for its Focus and newly launched Kuga models, the U.S. car maker said Wednesday.
Sales of Ford-brand passenger cars at Changan Ford Automobile (...)
China has sentenced a former provincial deputy governor to life in prison for accepting almost $2 million in bribes, the most senior official to be punished since the country's new leadership made tackling corruption its top priority.
Huang Sheng, former deputy governor of the eastern province of (...)
The latest Chinese film to grace the big screen worldwide is “Caught in the Web,” a film about the unending desire for faster and quirkier information through the growing technological advances of recent years. It also looks at how a simply video on a bus can turn into a nationwide phenomenon that (...)
The official release of Django Unchained in China is back on again.
Quentin Tarantino's blaxploitation western was pulled from cinemas just minutes into its first screenings earlier this month. It was suggested that the Chinese censors had balked at the film's scenes of full-frontal nudity, but (...)
Bank of China Ltd. said Thursday first-quarter net profit rose 8.2%, thanks to healthy growth in net-interest income.
Net profit for the three months ended March 31 was 39.82 billion yuan (US$6.42 billion), up from CNY36.80 billion a year earlier, said the country's largest foreign-exchange (...)
BANGKOK: The massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province, which is the home of endangered giant pandas, has shaken the cuddly animals so badly that they are refusing to come down from the trees they had climbed out of fear.
Officials in the area were quoted by state-run CCTV as saying that most (...)
Rescuers struggled to reach a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 203 with more than 11,000 injured.
The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya'an in the (...)
BANGKOK: More than 150 people were killed and 5,700 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China on Saturday, destroying thousands of homes and triggering landslides.
The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan plateau just after 8am, (...)
A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.
The earthquake occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 (...)
Benchmark U.S. crude-oil futures rose in electronic trade Friday, but the market will likely end with weekly losses on demand and global growth concerns.
May crude oil rose 75 cents, or 0.9%, to $88.48 a barrel during Asian trading hours, adding to their 1.2% gain on Thursday.
Oil prices were on (...)
European stock markets were on track for a third straight day of losses on Tuesday, as concerns about global growth remained in the spotlight after recent weaker-than-expected data in both China and the U.S. Later in the day, attention turns to Germany's ZEW economic sentiment indicator to gauge (...)
European stock markets showed mixed moves at the open on Monday, as mining firms dropped after a disappointing Chinese growth reading, while heavyweight drug firms were on the rise. The Stoxx Europe 600 index gained 0.1% to 292.53, but was swinging between small gains and losses.
Data from China (...)
Eleven people have been killed and 50 others injured in a fire in central China that spread to a hotel.
The official Xinhua News Agency says the fire broke out just after 6:30 a.m. Sunday in Xiangyang city in Hubei province and wasn't extinguished until almost 9 a.m.
Two Xiangyang firefighters said (...)
Global sales of PCs fell 14% in the first three months of the year, the biggest fall since research firm IDC started tracking the industry in 1994.
IDC said 76.3 million units were shipped, a figure that underlines the appeal of tablets and smartphones as alternatives to PCs.
The firm said (...)
European stock markets posted broad-based gains at the open on Tuesday, boosted by better-than-expected earnings from bellwether Alcoa Inc. and inflation data from China. Consumer prices in China in March rose a softer-than-expected 2.1%, fueling hopes that the country will continue its monetary (...)
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei announced plans on Monday to release a heavy-metal album that he said would "express his opinion" just as he does with his art.
The burly and bearded Ai said 81 days in secretive detention in 2011, which sparked an international outcry, triggered his foray into (...)
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China has dissolved its powerful railways ministry in a raft of measures aimed at boosting government efficiency and tackling corruption.
The railways ministry, which has been criticised for fraud and wasting funds, now comes under the transport ministry.
The family planning commission, which (...)
The future of African elephants remains uncertain as illegal ivory trade continues to grow, according to a United Nations report released today, which calls for enhanced law enforcement to protect the majestic creatures and their environment.
The report, “Elephants in the Dust – The African (...)
“I take every chance to share my campaign and the difficulties elephants are facing," says Celia Ho, a 14-year-old student from Hong Kong who launched a campaign to stop ivory consumption after reading Bryan Christy's “Blood Ivory" article in National Geographic. Her young voice represents a new (...)
بعد غزو الصين لنا بشكل كبير في حياتنا اليومية وتحول علاقتنا بجملة " Made In China " كعلاقة الحب بعد الزواج لا أخفي عليكم أنني أحببتها بعد أن أصبحت أراها أمامي في كل شئ أستخدمه في كل شئ أشتريه في كل شئ أرتديه ما عدا شئ واحد بالطبع وهي ملابسي الداخلية لأن ماركتي المفضلة استطاعت أن تكتشف أن " القطن (...)
بعد غزو الصين لنا بشكل كبير فى حياتنا اليومية وتحول علاقتنا بجملة «Made In China» لعلاقة الحب بعد الزواج لا أخفى عليكم أننى أحببتها بعد أن أصبحت أراها أمامى فى كل شىء أستخدمه.. فى كل شىء أشتريه فى كل شىء ارتديه.. ما عدا شيئا واحد بالطبع وهو ملابسى الداخلية لأن ماركتى المفضلة استطاعت أن تكتشف أن (...)