2010-05-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

KUWAIT CITY, May 20 (Xinhua) -- State-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) said Thursday it has signed a contract worth 48.35 million dinar (around 170 million U.S. dollars) with an Italian company for layi

2010-05-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Wall Street has failed to block the nation's financial regulation reform, as the Senate voted to finish debating the b

2010-05-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, May 20 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy reaffirmed Thursday that there was no discord between him and German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the current financial problems of eurozone

2010-05-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Britain's newly elected Prime Minister David Cameron said British interest was in line with a " stable" and "successful" eurozone on Thursday at the Elysee Palace after his

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- London's mayor looks set for collision course with the country's newly-elected coalition government, following disagreements on major policy items, according to London gov

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP said on Wednesday it hopes to start a technology known as "top kill" on Sunday or early next week to stop the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.T

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday night asked the people to be confident of the government, which is in the process to stabilize the country ' s polit

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that the United States and the international community await "a formal and authoritative message" from Iran to the Internat

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, May 19 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Thursday will present clear and definitive material evidence related to the mysterious sinking of its warship in March, President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday.

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

BISHKEK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyzstan's interim government on Wednesday announced that its leader Roza Otunbayeva will serve as president until the end of 2011.The term of the new president, who cam

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, May 20(Xinhuanet) -- In a setback for the Obama administration, Senate Republicans have succeeded in blocking a final Senate vote on a massive financial reform bill, according to media report

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Wednesday announced that it is recalling more notebook personal computer (PC) batteries that have the potential to overheat and pose a fir

2010-05-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, May 19 (Xinhua) -- German airline Lufthansa received its first Airbus A380 on Wednesday in Hamburg.Lufthansa, the biggest airline in the country, has ordered 15 A380 super jets, with four sche

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The British parliament reconvened on Tuesday for the first time after general election and John Bercow was re-elected as speaker of the House of Commons.Bercow said it would

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to receive a draft resolution on Iran.The draft resolution was agreed by the five permanent members of the

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the progress of the ratification of a new treaty on strategic arms reduction (ST

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The armored vehicles broke through the blockade of the red-shirt at Lumpini Park area in downtown Bangkok at about 8 a.m. Wednesday as the troops' dispersion operation kic

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, May 18 (Xinhua) -- New York Times Square botched car bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad made his first appearance in Manhattan Federal Court Tuesday afternoon on five felony crime charges.Shahza

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- British energy giant BP said Tuesday a tube siphoning oil from a ruptured undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico is now drawing 2,000 barrels of crude a day, almost double the

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) announced new measures Tuesday to prevent a repeat of the mysterious stock swoon experienced earlier this month when t

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

ADDIS ABABA, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The Economic Report on Africa 2010 said on Tuesday that unemployment rates remained at very high levels, hampering the ability of many African countries to reduce pover

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The consumer prices index in Britain increased at annual rate of 3.7 percent in April comparing with a rate of 3.4 percent in the previous month and hit a 17-month high in l

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve System in May will begin its 2010 Census of Finance Companies to paint a complete and continuing picture of the sector of the U.S. economy in th

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, May 18 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) finance ministers on Tuesday agreed on tough regulation on hedge funds despite differences among the 27 member states of the bloc.After a roundtable de

2010-05-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The United States reaffirmed on Tuesday that it is moving forward the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, in an effort to achieve the goal of Obama administrati