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Czech Prime Minister receives Bejing Olympic medalists
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek received Czech athletes who won medals at the Beijing Olympic Games and gave them symbolical brooches and buttons with the Czech lion, the Czech news agency CTK said on...
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Roundup: China table tennis team wins 4 Paralympic golds
Chinese won four out of five table tennis gold medals at the Beijing Paralympic Games on Wednesday. The Paralympic table tennis tournament is divided into 10 classes depending on various disabilities....
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Rugby team glad to have 'coach mom'
When China's wheelchair rugby team faces its first opponent - the US - tomorrow, no one will be watching more closely than "coach mom" Wen Yan. "Unlike coaching able-bodied athletes, working with us...
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Olympic table tennis champion Zhang leads Chinese team to China Open
Newly crowned dual Olympic champion Zhang Yining is to lead a star-studded Chinese team to compete in the China Open table tennis tournament that starts on Thursday. Zhang, team and singles gold...
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Field records all refreshed in Bird's Nest at Paralympics
The National Stadium experienced one of the busiest sessions of the Beijing Paralympic Games on Wednesday with 17 gold medals come out all in the evening. China had been the most gold medalist as three...
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Optimal conditions set for spacewalk
Bringing forward the launch date of China's third manned spacecraft by one month will maximize conditions for the country's highly anticipated inaugural spacewalk, experts have said. The Shenzhou VII...
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Chinese hybrid rice introduced to more than 40 countries and regions
Over 40 countries and regions have introduced hybrid rice from China, Ma Shuping, a senior official of Ministry of Agriculture revealed on Sept 10. Some countries in Southeast Asia have seen sharp...
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Over half of Airbus aircraft use made-in-China parts
Marc Bertiaux, vice president of Airbus China Corporations in charge of cooperation with China, revealed that more than half of Airbus aircraft use made-in-China parts. He also said that Airbus had a...
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Xiamen to be the first wireless network-covered city
Recently Xiamen Municipal and China Mobile's Fujian branch signed a cooperation memorandum named "wireless city", marking the beginning of construction of wireless network in Xiamen, which is based on...
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First test-tube monkeys given birth in China
Chinese scientists have given birth to the country's first test-tube monkeys, which is believed to be the first step to engineer gene-modified monkeys. Dr. Sun Qiang of the East China Normal University...
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U.S. physicists discover new particle
Physicists at U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega b baryon, the lab's leading scientist Qian Jianming told...
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Chinese researchers successfully clone pigs with swine fever-resistant gene
Three cloned piglets with a generesistant to swine fever virus , a fatal disease for the livestock, have been born in northeast China's Jilin Province, Chinese researchers said. The piglets, weighing...
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China readies sea search, rescue for launch of Shenzhou-7 spacecraft
The sea search and rescue teams have prepared for the launch of Shenzhou-7 spacecraft, vice minister of transport Xu Zuyuan said after a drill concluded on Wednesday. The drill, carried out in the...
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Hathaway spends a week in shock after ex arrested
Anne Hathaway "spent a week in shock" after her then-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was arrested. The "Get Smart" actress - who had been dating the Italian businessman for four years, but ended the...
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I want more sleep, Brad Pitt moans
Hollywood star Brad Pitt is "longing for" sleep following the birth of his and Angelina Jolie's twins in July. The "Burn After Reading" star - whose babies Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are his...
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"Dark Knight" plans re-release for Oscar push
Batman wants an Oscar. To be precise, Warner Bros. wants a statuette -- or 10 -- for "The Dark Knight." So the studio plans to re-release its blockbuster Batman sequel in January, the height of Academy...
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Public health incidents claim 34 lives in August
Emergent public health incidents killed 34 people on the Chinese mainland in August with 82 incidents recorded and 1,551 people involved, the country's Ministry of Health said on Thursday. Emergent...
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Boss' gender can affect workers' stress
Bosses in general can be a pain in the ... well, you know, but a new study finds that your boss' gender can affect just how much pain he or she seems to inflict. Researchers at the University of...
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Baby dies of kidney stones in NW China, fake milk powder suspected
One baby has died of kidney stones in northwest China's Gansu Province, said health officials Thursday. It is not clear if this infant drank milk formula being investigated for causing at least 14...
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More babies across China suffer from kidney stones, fake milk powder suspected
An unknown number of infants in at least seven provinces and regions across China have suffered from kidney stones while doctors and parents suspected it could bea result of drinking milk powder of the...
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Chinese language center draws crowds
People from other parts of the world always are fascinated by China's 5,000 year old cultural tradition. At the Paralympics Village in Beijing, the Chinese Language Center has proven one of the...
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Zhang Yimou, Gong Li, Jackie Chan fail to make shortlist for Chinese audience...
Chinese film veterans Zhang Yimou, Gong Li and Jackie Chan failed to make the shortlist for film awards given by the audience at an annual domestic film festival which opened in China's northeast...
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Dong music and buildings artistic wonders
You cannot leave a village of the Dong minority without being impressed with their songs and buildings. Many of their songs are a reflection of their lives - about nature, labor, love and friendship....
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President Hu addressed three top concerns in field tour
In the run-up to the opening of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee to be convened next month in Beijing, and in the days from Sep.8 to 10, China's President Hu Jintao made his...
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HK shares end at 18-month low following regional markets
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang SengIndex plunged 3.06 percent to a near 18-month low below a key support level Thursday, following Asian stock markets. The Hang Seng Index fell 611.06 points or 3.06...
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