Top leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in the heart of Beijing Saturday morning to mark the National Day. Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang participated in the ceremony and paid their respect to those who sacrificed for...
Senior negotiators from Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) ended their first round of talks in Istanbul, Turkey./World News The first round of talks ended in “positive atmosphere” and the next round is scheduled to be resumed later toady. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National...
Somali pirates have seized a South Korean ship in the Arabian Sea, two months after an oil supertanker belonging to the same firm was freed after seven months in captivity, the government and local media said. A Foreign Ministry statement issued late on Saturday said the cabinet had met to discuss how to deal with the hijacking of the 11,500-tonne...
A rare Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour bus driver in northern China while the man’s horrified passengers watched, Chinese media reported. The tiger pounced on driver Jin Shijun and dragged him into the forest after he got out to check on his bus, which was stuck in the snow at the world’s largest Siberian tiger breeding...
China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang has said his country is willing to buy about 6 billion euros ($7.9 billion) of Spanish public debt, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Thursday, citing government sources. The sources told El Pais Li had said at a meeting that China is willing to buy as much Spanish public debt as Greek and Portuguese...