2010-01-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Jan. 22 -- China remains a developing country with a large number of poor people and low per capita GDP, the statistics chief said Thursday while releasing economic growth figures for last ye

2010-01-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices tumbled to one-month low below 75 U.S. dollars on Friday as the energy market shared a sluggish sentiment with stocks which plunged for a third day.U.S. stocks

2010-01-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- American Airlines, the world's second-biggest carrier, said Friday it will lay off 175 pilots in the first half of this year due to capacity cuts and fewer retirements.Ei

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on Thursday welcomed the establishment of a humanitarian corridor between the Dominican Republic and the Republic o

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill allowing donations for Haitian earthquake victims to be deducted from taxpayers' 2009 returns.The legislation, which was alre

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- British Foreign Minister David Miliband said on Thursday that next week's conference on Afghanistan in London aims to upgrade the "civilian side of the mission."Miliba

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon called on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday to release a U.S. man arrested in December for illegal ent

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton vowed Thursday they will keep pressuring Iran on its nuclear program, s

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

PYONGYANG, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has repeated its demand of concluding a peace treaty with the United States to replace the Armistice Agreement, which e

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street plummeted on Thursday, erasing the Dow Jones Industrial Average's gain for the year, after President Barack Obama proposed to limit the size and scope of lar

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The world economic recovery will speed up, the dollar will strengthen and equities and profits improve, according to a panel of leading experts on Wednesday.Despite furth

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Google Inc. on Thursday posted a double-digit increase of sales in the most recent quarter, which however was not as strong as some analysts had expected.The company

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Consumer confidence in both the European Union (EU) and the euro zone improved in January, a survey by the European Commission showed on Thursday.Official figures showed

2010-01-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government will investigate charges against import of oil well drill pipe from Chinese companies, said the Commerce Department on Thursday.The case, which was

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

WARSAW, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Practical, not political reasons were taken into consideration when selecting Morag, a small town in north-eastern Poland about 100 km from the Russian border, as the base

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) - At least 23 people died and 20 more were injured on Wednesday during a riot in the prison of Durango state, north of Mexico, the Mexican General Prosecutor's Office of

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- As search and rescue operations shift gears to immediate assistance for the survivors, the UN Development Program (UNDP) announced on Wednesday that it will employ

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The positions of Washington and Moscow on the Iranian nuclear issue "have never been so near," said U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle here on Wednesday.Beyrle told the

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Several Palestinian political leaders in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday called for holding the general presidential and legislative elections in all the Palestinian territories

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

DAMASCUS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Wednesday with visiting U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell on bilateral relations, prospects of the Mideast pea

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street tumbled Wednesday, with major averages ending more than 1 percent lower, after a series of bank reports showed the troubled sector was still struggling with c

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government urged the Congress on Wednesday to pass an increase in the federal debt limit, according to a statement released by the White House."The administrat

2010-01-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

HONG KONG, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The world economy is recovering faster and stronger than expected and a double dip recession is unlikely to happen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the Inte

2010-01-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's top priority in his second year in office is to create jobs and revitalize the economy, the White House said on Tuesday."The top priority

2010-01-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) - U.S. State Department on Tuesday designated al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) as a foreign terrorist group, offering legitimacy for the administration in taking f