China stocks plunge 8% in panic sellingBy Dong Zhixin (chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-06-04 10:42Chinese stocks plunged more than eight percent on Monday as jittery investors dumped shares in worries about further potential governmental moves to dampen the market following a stamp tax hike(印花 ...

Smoking deaths to double without action - WHO(Agencies/chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-05-31 08:36BEIJING - Cigarette-related deaths in China will more than double by 2020 unless the government introduces comprehensive measures to curtail smoking, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday....

(Xinhua)Updated: 2007-05-20 19:20BEIJING, -- Beijing will cut its annual coal production by two thirds in the coming four years to 3 million tons, down from 9 million tons in 2005, the local government said.As a first step, the city will close down 16 small coal mines in the outer districts of ...

China raises interest rates, reserve requirementsBy Rong Xiandong (chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-05-18 19:52China will raise the one-year deposit and loan interest rates by 0.27 and 0.18 percentage points, respectively, to 3.06 and 6.57 percent as of May 19, the central bank of China announced...

(Agencies)Updated: 2007-05-17 09:35Washington -- Prime Minister Tony Blair began his last trip here as British leader Wednesday, armed with a parting shot to global opinion that US isolation would make a restive world far more dangerous.US President George W. Bush greeted his closest foreign a ...

(AP)Updated: 2007-05-13 09:01BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi troops searched house-to-house and combed fields with their bare hands Saturday after American troops and their Iraqi interpreter came under attack in the notorious "triangle of death" south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing.The ...

By Li Fangchao (China Daily)Updated: 2007-05-12 07:08The supply of low-cost labor, widely considered to be fueling China's sizzling economy, could start drying up as early as 2010, a report warns.One of the biggest reasons for the potential shortage is that the rural labor force may not be as ...

(chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-05-03 10:34U.S. Treasury Secretary(财政部长) Henry Paulson pinned hopes on upcoming visit to Washington by Vice-Premier Wu Yi to achieve agreements on trade and economic integration, billing the top Chinese woman trouble-shooter as a "force of nature".As a re ...