2010-12-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The number of U.S. banks gone into bankruptcy this year reached the highest level since 1992, according to media report on Wednesday.Washington Post reported that 157 U.S

2010-12-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), China's foreign exchange regulator, said Wednesday that 16 banks have been found to have committed irregularities in

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran is now a nuclear country implying that Iran has achieved nuclear know-how for energy purposes.The United States

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANAA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Tuesday that it has facilitated video-teleconference calls between detainees at the U.S.-run military jail i

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Commuters in New York City faced more headaches on Tuesday as subways, buses and commuter trains continued to experience heavy delays due to Sunday's blizzard.Manhattan

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- An official from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Tuesday declined to comment on whether Netanyahu has de facto decided to adopt his foreign minist

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

MINSK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday appointed Mikhail Myasnikovich as the country's new prime minister.In a government reshuffle that came after a presiden

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

ABIDJAN, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo warned on Tuesday to cut ties with any government that recognizes ambassadors named by his rival presidential claimant Al

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street closed mixed on Tuesday as worse-than-expected U.S. home prices and consumer confidence limited the gains led by energy stocks, despite the Dow Jones industri

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Japan's core consumer price index fell 0.5 percent from a year earlier in November, according to data released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Tue

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Several U.S. airlines said Tuesday that they are raising airfares on domestic routes as air travel is boosted by the Christmas-New Year holiday season and the industry is

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Japan's unemployment rate remained unchanged in November at a seasonally adjusted 5.1 percent, according to data released by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministr

2010-12-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Japan's industrial production in November grew a seasonally adjusted 1.0 percent from the previous month, marking the first rise in six months, the Ministry of Economy, Tra

2010-12-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

RAMALLAH, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- A senior Fatah official on Monday urged Islamic Hamas movement to speed up its reconciliation efforts with Fatah in order to prevent Gaza from another Israeli offensive."

2010-12-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

BANGKOK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Monday resubmitted a petition, asking the Criminal Court to withdraw the bail granted earlier for the anti-governm

2010-12-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Transportation in the New York metropolitan region was troubled on Monday as the deep-piled snow blanked the city and gusting winds kicked up formidable snowdrifts.The bl

2010-12-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Monday expressed concerns over Russia's convictions of its two former business tycoons, namely Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.U.S. State

2010-12-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Sludge was flowing into the Kankakee River from the site of an explosion that destroyed a building earlier Monday at a water treatment plant in Kankakee, about 60 miles so

2010-12-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Nine people have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in Britain and with terrorism offences, the West Midlands police announced on Monday.Such move followed a

2010-12-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- South Korean military will continue its marine gunnery exercises in 23 sites around the country in the last week of this year.Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administra

2010-12-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Sunday reported two more foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks as the high contagious appears to be spreading faster in the country.According to Seoul's Min

2010-12-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- New York City airports canceled more than 1,000 flights on Sunday as a snow blizzard made its way through the east coast.Major airlines grounded hundreds of flights in Ne

2010-12-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

ABIDJAN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The party of Cote d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara called on citizens to go on strike till Laurent Gbagbo's stepping down, media reports said Sunday.Cote d'Ivoire's oppos

2010-12-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

RAMALLAH, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian leadership is unaware of new U.S. ideas replacing previous understandings that all concerned parties had agreed on over the borders of future Palestinian

2010-12-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United States and Israel are responsible for obstructing Gaza Strip's reconstruction process after Israel's Cast Lead Operation against the enclave that ended in Januar