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The police authorities in Chinese mainland and Taiwan had jointly cracked a phone fraud ring and seized 24 suspects on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, police authorities in Taiwan said Friday. The group was raided by Taiwan police in

Hong Kong is the first choice of many Chinese mainland residents when they travel abroad, according to the Beijing office of Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) Friday, quoting survey results. More than 90 percent of over 8,000 netizens on the

China is planning to build a library honoring the country's "father of space technology" Qian Xuesen, who died on Oct. 31 at the age of 98. The library, which will be built at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where Qian once

China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Friday said the non-public sector of economy should play a bigger role in countering the global financial crisis and maintaining a steady and relatively fast economic development. Jia, chairman of the National Committee

A prolonged drought since September has affected 909,000 people in east China's Jiangxi Province, said a spokesman with the provincial flood control and drought relief office on Friday. The drought has cut off normal water supply in some rural areas.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived here Friday to start an official visit to Egypt. During his stay in Egypt, Wen will also attend the opening ceremony of the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation to be held

The United States President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to China was of great importance to the development of China-U.S. relations in the new era, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said here Friday. "As his first trip to China since taking

A team of Chinese doctors have been giving free medical treatments for the patients who suffered cataracts and mouth diseases in Hamju, South Hamgyong province of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), from Monday to Friday, according to the

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) consolidates and deepens relations and cooperation between the African countries and China, said African diplomats ahead of a ministerial meeting of the forum. The Africa-China relations are deepened in economic, cultural and political fields,

Li Yuanchao, head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met here Friday with Brent Scowcroft, former presidential national security advisor of the United States. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

Students from the Confucius Institute at the University of Lome on Thursday went to the Chinese Embassy in Togo to visit the photo exhibition on achievements since the Beijing summit on Sino-African cooperation. Chinese Ambassador Yang Min encouraged the students

Boosted by increasing confidence in the future, Macao residents' Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) rose to 66.7, the highest score ever registered in 10 years, the Macao Daily Times reported Friday. The newspaper quoted the latest Macao Quality of Life report

Air conditioners, refrigerators and compact fluorescent lamps for sale in Hong Kong will have to carry energy labels with information on their energy efficiency performance starting from Monday. The initial phase of the Mandatory Energy Efficiency Labeling Scheme will be

Southwest China's Guizhou Province is hoping to reduce fluorosis incidence in two years by replacing old-fashioned stoves that give off fluorin-rich smokes. The provincial government's two-year plan on the promotion of public health, published here Friday, said the government would

China was stepping up protection and sustainable development of its islands and oceanic resources, said Zhang Hongsheng, deputy director of the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), Friday. Measures had been taken to protect China's islands with new laws and natural reserves,

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Friday branded the United States imposition of anti-dumping dutiesv on Chinese oil well pipes as protectionist and vowed to take measures to protect its own domestic interests. The United States denied China's market economy status

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force commander Xu Qiliang on Friday called for peaceful and harmonious use of the space and air by the world's air forces. Xu made the remarks in a keynote speech during an international