We only have to turn the clock back to realize what is happening. The year was 19...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:49:19 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-19419 China's vow to be more open about its military reflects its growing confidence, but is unlikely to satisfy foreign demands for more transparency about the world's largest army, analysts said on Tuesday.

China said on Sunday that it would beg...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:46:42 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18769 BEIJING--Those involved in preparing for the Beijing Olympics have turned their attention to a technology capable of preventing rainfall.

On July 31, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau news conference was inundated with foreign journalists.

Zh...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18768 By Finlo Rohrer

China's growing love of dairy products is threatening to push UK prices up. But why are the Chinese drinking more milk and why does it affect the whole world?

It used to be said that when America sneezes, the world catches a ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18767 By Daniel Pimlott

Everyone knows about the Asian miracle in Asia. China and India's stratospheric growth are by now the world's worst kept secrets. Less famous is the Asian miracle that has taken place in the US.

Asian immigrants to the US...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18766 The North and South Korean governments announced jointly that their leaders will hold a summit in Pyongyang on Aug. 28. The summit was widely expected. It is a well-known fact that South Korean officials, from the former prime minister to a close ai...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18765 By William Pesek

Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- A central banker's job, it's often said, is to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going. These days, politicians are trying to keep the bar open.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18764 BEIJING--Most of the organic vegetables to be delivered to the athletes' village and press center during the Beijing Olympic Games and ensuing Paralympics will be grown in the village of Donglongwan, about 100 kilometers northwest of Beijing.

Or...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18763 BEIJING--"This is the world's largest Omega outlet. It shows how important the Chinese market is to our company's global strategy," said Kevin Rollenhagen, president of Omega China and Hong Kong, on Monday.

The remark was made to Olympic officia...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18762 By KEITH BRADSHER

SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9 �� At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to reco...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18761 By William Pesek

Of all the breathtaking factoids about China's rise, the most fantastic may concern the stock markets. They are now bigger than China's gross domestic product.

The combined value of shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzh...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18760 The opening of a railway line linking Tibet to China last year sparked fears that it could lead to the erosion of Tibet's unique culture and way of life. The BBC's Michael Bristow has travelled to the region and reports on the effects of the line on...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:07:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18672 The dollar has fallen to a record low against the euro and yet another 26-year slump against the pound.

With investors fearful that the ongoing downturn in the US housing market will start to slow the economy, the euro rose as high as $1.3741 on ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18671 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House announced Tuesday that an upcoming progress report will result in "the beginning of a new way" in Iraq, but President Bush said military commanders, not politicians, will show the way forward.

Six months afte...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18670 By William Pesek

July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Here's something many of us Japan observers never thought we would be saying: Bring back Koizumi.

Japan's prime minister from April 2001 to September 2006, Junichiro Koizumi was always a unique chara...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18669 Stephen Kinzer

Why attack Iran? War hawks in Washington are having trouble answering that question. Even their dire warnings about Iran's nuclear program have not been enough to alarm Americans already weary of Middle East conflicts.

Now th...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18668 By DAVID BARBOZA

BEIJING, July 12 �� Zheng Xiaoyu once ranked as one of the most powerful regulators in China. He rose from modest beginnings to help create and lead Beijing��s version of the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. <...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18667 Our country currently faces a number of tough issues: rebuilding social security, securing peace and safety for the nation and dealing with fiscal problems, just to name a few.

Campaigning for the House of Councillors election officially kicked ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18666 By Michael Bristow

Base camp on the Chinese side of Mount Everest has come to resemble a wild-west frontier town, according to the author of a forthcoming book.

And there are worries that Chinese plans to build a permanent road to the camp cou...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18665 By David Pilling

A few days after I had lunch with Akie Abe, the near-celebrity wife of Japan��s prime minister attended a private dinner with George and Laura Bush at the White House. The president, enthralled with Japan��s First Lady, gushed:...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18664 It has been dizzying watching stocks shoot up day after day. The KOSPI, Korea's benchmark index, which broke through the 1,500 mark on April 9, has gained more than 400 points during the past three months.

The market rally has been strong enoug...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18663 By H. D. S. Greenway

BOSTON: A chill went down the spine of the world when it was discovered that many of the bomb plotters who mercifully failed in the recent car bomb attempts in London and Glasgow were doctors. The basic tenet of the medical p...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18662 Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the UK will make "no apologies" for expelling four Russian diplomats.

The decision follows Moscow's refusal to hand over the former KGB agent accused of murdering Alexander Litvinenko in London last year.

...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18661 By Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush called on Monday for a Middle East peace conference bringing together Israel, the Palestinians and some Arab neighbors and led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Unde...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18660 By LARRY ROHTER

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 17 �� An Airbus 320 landing at the main airport in S?o Paulo, Brazil��s largest city, skidded off a runway early Tuesday night, continued across a busy highway during the evening rush hour, and crashed into an...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18659 By Ed Crooks in London

The US should adopt the toughest possible fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and join a global framework for managing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a Bush administration-commissioned study of the en...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:06 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18546 Playing 'Civilization IV' may be distracting, but medically, at least, it's not yet the same as drowning one's sorrows in Scotch.

By Eryn Brown

THE American Medical Assn. recently announced that it might recommend declaring video-game addict...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:40:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18545 By Sopon Onkgara

Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted and disgraced prime minister of Thailand, might have something either nasty or sinister up his sleeve again.

He will be busy meeting with newspaper columnists from Thailand who are golf...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:40:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18544 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has met the Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, for the first time since Mr Fayyad took office last month.

The meeting in Jerusalem is seen as a gesture of support for moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:40:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18543 BEIJING (Reuters) - The Great Wall's leap to the top of the new seven wonders of the world list has restored China's sense of national pride and eased frazzled nerves, state media said on Monday.

The seven winners were announced in Lisbon after ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:40:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18392 By Nathan Brown

The violent Hamas takeover of Gaza raises a troubling question: Did the experiment of using democracy to tame Islamists lead to unmitigated disaster?

A disaster is occurring in Palestine, to be sure. But before we rush to aban...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:43:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18391 By Robin Kwong and Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong and Anuj Gangahar in New York

Capital raised by new listings in China is set to exceed $52bn this year, twice the figure forecast in January, putting the mainland on track to become the world��s l...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:43:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18390 By Michael Hammerschlag

It's official. To be patriotic in Russia is to be a fan of Putin, specifically a Putin Youth. During the celebration on June 12th of Independence Day (Russia from the Soviet Union in 1990), "the only groups allowed onto ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:43:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18389 By Chris Hogg

Shinzo Abe was the "princeling", a man with good looks and an impeccable political pedigree - chosen to lead his party last autumn, many said, because he was the candidate most likely to win elections.

He became Japan's first...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:43:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18279 By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing

Ten international banks, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, have been punished by China��s foreign exchange regulator for breaching strict capital controls by helping to funnel huge amounts of foreign ex...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18278 The Palestinian Hamas movement has criticised the appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as an international Middle East peace envoy.

The Islamist militants, now in control of Gaza, said Mr Blair had not been honest or helpful while p...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18277 For most of the 400 prisoners at Guant��namo Bay, Cuba, the only chance to challenge their confinement as enemy combatants comes at their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. No one in the Bush administration ever claimed these proceedings were full-b...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18276 Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's glorious political career reflects many important phases in Japan's post-World War II political scene. He was a living witness to the postwar political history of this country.

On Thursday, Miyazawa died a...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18275 On Sunday it will be 10 years since Britain turned Hong Kong over to China, and contrary to what many feared back then, the territory has largely maintained the high degree of autonomy Beijing promised to respect under its formula of "one country, t...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18274 By Charles Scanlon

Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been back to North Korea's nuclear complex at Yongbyon for the first time in nearly five years.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appears ready to comply ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18273 By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing and Geoff Dyer in Shanghai

Foreign chambers of commerce and labour activists on Sunday welcomed an overhaul of China��s labour law, but said poor implementation of existing laws meant it was unlikely to improve wor...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18272 Richard Adams

Parking attendants are among the most maligned figures in the British workforce - ranking with estate agents and journalists in the depths of public esteem. But on Friday morning they towed away a Mercedes in central London that c...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18271 By Philip Bowring

Taiwan is moving towards elections that may determine if renewed vigour can be breathed into its economy and its democratic process. Both are currently dominated by inward-looking concerns and a pettiness which irritate its fri...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18270 By ALAN COWELL and RAYMOND BONNER

LONDON �� The British police investigating the attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow arrested three more suspects on Monday, bringing the number of people held so far in the case to eight, including m...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18269 US private equity group Blackstone is buying the global Hilton Hotels chain for $26bn (��13bn) in an all-cash deal.

Under the deal, Blackstone is paying $47.50 for each Hilton Hotels Corporation share, a 32% premium over their closing price on T...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18268 Even in a China that is more capitalist than ever, the instinctive official response to bad news is to suppress it with all the force available to the nominally communist state. Beijing needs to accept that in 2007 this kind of reaction is as futile...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:15:29 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18151 'Failure' of street protests may spur rethink of strategy

Exiled leader Thaksin Shinawatra must have felt knocked about over the past few days, as he has been bombarded with charges of corruption and abuse of power.

The list is long...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18150 By Jin Dae-woong

North Korea yesterday fired a short-range missile into the waters off its eastern coast, in a third test-firing in less than a month, Seoul officials said.

"North Korea fired an unknown type of missile with a range of 100 k...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18149 By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush vetoed legislation on Wednesday that would expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research, triggering an uphill battle to override him in the Democratic-led U.S. Congress...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18148 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Hamas of trying to establish its own state in Gaza.

Mr Abbas condemned Hamas as "murderous terrorists" and "coup plotters", over the group's takeover of Gaza last week.

He ruled out ta...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:04 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18069 Reports of slavery at a brick factory in Shanxi Province reveal a wider problem of child abuse in China, one the government often ignores.

By Howard W. French

SHANGHAI: When stories of hundreds of people being forced to work under sla...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:54:16 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-18068 By Mohammed Assadi

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Western powers said on Monday they would end a 15-month-old embargo on the Palestinians in a boost to President Mahmoud Abbas's government after he sacked Hamas Islamists who seized the Gaza Strip.

Ab...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:54:16 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17920 A variety of new laws aimed at forcing China to revalue the renminbi are before the US Congress. Up to now, such bills have come and gone, leaving little trace. But the latest plan from Democratic senators Max Baucus and Charles Schumer, and Republi...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:44:52 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17919 By Elizabeth Drew, ELIZABETH DREW writes regularly for the New York Review of Books and is the former Washington correspondent for the New Yorker. She is the author of "Richard M. Nixon," a new biography of the former p

TODAY MARKS the 35th a...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:44:52 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17851 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmake...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:41 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17850 Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah say they have agreed to the terms of a new truce to end days of fighting in Gaza that has left 80 people dead.

In a joint statement, leaders from both sides called for an end to fighting.

Deputy Pale...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:41 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17849 Education is key to ensuring Thai citizens are not complacent in the fight to end this ongoing atrocity

The annual "Trafficking in Persons Report" prepared by the US State Department and released yesterday is an invaluable resource for g...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:41 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17848 By STEVEN ERLANGER

JERUSALEM �� Hamas forces consolidated control over much of Gaza on Wednesday, taking command of the main north-south road and blowing up a Fatah headquarters in Khan Yunis, in the south.

In northern Gaza and Gaza City, Ha...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:41 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17847 WASHINGTON -- Chinese hackers are continually probing U.S. military networks, primarily for technical information, a top U.S. general said.

"... For the most part, what we're seeing is industrial espionage in large measure," said Air Force Lt. G...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:41 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17846 By Isabel Kershner and Steven Erlanger

JERUSALEM: The Palestinian territories seemed headed Thursday to a turbulent political divide. Masked Hamas gunmen took control of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian president dissolved the three-month-old ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:41 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17744 By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Republican politicians on Tuesday raised concerns about a US deal to help North Korea recover $25m in frozen funds, a step Pyongyang insists is necessary for implementation of a de-nuclearisation accord. <...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:52:27 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17743 By Philip Bowring

HONG KONG: Some of the reasons why the Chinese stock market continues to defy both gravity and the half-hearted efforts of the government to cool it are normal and obvious. But there is another reason that says a lot about a pa...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:52:27 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17704 The nation's suicide rate continues to make for grim reading. A report recently released by the National Police Agency said 32,155 people took their own lives last year, down 397 from the previous year but still topping the 30,000 mark for the ninth...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:36:57 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17703 By James P. Rubin

LONDON:

The idea of fighting a war on behalf of U.S. credibility hasn't been debated since the height of the Vietnam War. Yet that is precisely what some Iraq war supporters are now advocating.

They say the surge is the...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:36:57 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17666 BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Sixty-six people have been killed and more than a half-million displaced by flooding and landslides that followed heavy rainfall in south China's Guangdong Province, according to Xinhua, China's state-run news agency.

Tw...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:36:02 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17665 US President George W Bush is in Bulgaria for talks expected to focus on American plans to build a missile defence shield in Europe.

Bulgaria's government is concerned it may be left out of the plan, which would include facilities in Poland and t...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:36:02 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17546 If there is a point to gathering the leaders of eight of the world��s richest and most powerful nations each year, it is to thrash out policies for tackling the most pressing and contentious problems.

Three such issues confront the presidents an...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:18:48 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17545 In 1995, the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 1) was held in Berlin. The meeting was chaired by Angela Merkel, then Germany's environment minister. We remember how hard ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:18:48 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17544 The CIA operated secret prisons in Europe where terrorism suspects could be interrogated and were allegedly tortured, an official inquiry will conclude today.

Despite denials by their governments, senior Polish and Romanian security officials h...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:18:48 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17543 By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

ROSTOCK, Germany �� After months of angrily rejecting a White House plan for missile defense in Europe, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia surprised President Bush to day with an offer to build a joint system in the for...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:18:48 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17408 By Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong

Investment banks are celebrating their most lucrative start to the year yet in the Asia-Pacific region with buoyant takeover activity and equity issuance pushing up revenues.

The banks have pocketed an estimated...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:06:34 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17407 By Tarek Al-Issawi

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is alive and is still issuing instructions to his commanders in the field, a leading Taliban member said.

Bin Laden sent a condolence message to Haji Mansour Dadullah, who succeeded his late...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:06:34 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17341 A while ago I watched on TV the 50th anniversary show of Larry King, the man who is dubbed the "Muhammad Ali of the interview." His guest was "talk show queen" Oprah Winfrey. Two of the world's top interviewers filled the screen. Winfrey to me is mo...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:27:52 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17340 Tribunal's ban of corrupt executives must stand as an example for those who would follow in Thaksin's path

General Sonthi Boonyaratglin last week broached the idea of granting amnesty to 111 executive members of the now-defunct Thai Rak ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:27:52 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17162 Think how much better it would have been if President George W. Bush had simply named Robert Zoellick to lead the World Bank two years ago instead of putting the bank through the embarrassing Paul Wolfowitz ordeal.

Now that Zoellick - far more q...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:18:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-17161 By Lee Joo-hee

The two Koreas made last-ditch efforts yesterday to decide on what to put in a joint statement at the end of the ministerial meetings being held amid lackluster progress in multilateral nuclear talks.

The negotiation continued...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:18:39 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16991 There's a lot of praise these days for Wu Yi, the 69-year-old Chinese vice premier for international trade, and it's coming from both the Chinese-language press and America. At the second round of the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) in ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 30 May 2007 12:12:27 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16990 A former official's death sentence in a bribery case is a reflection of increasing pressure to keep unsafe products off the market.

By Mark Magnier, Times Staff Writer

By the standards of Chinese corruption cases, the $832,000 that ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 30 May 2007 12:12:27 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16963 By James Reynolds

When Niu Jian Fang and Jiao Na got married they knew China's rules - one couple, one child.

Beating the system

A woman can only give birth once.

So, four years ago, Jiao Na got pregnant and gave birth to a son, ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16962 Never mind how badly the war is going in Iraq. President Bush has been swaggering around like a victorious general because he cowed a wobbly coalition of Democrats into dropping their attempt to impose a time limit on his disastrous misadventure. <...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16961 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Sunday, pushing May to the brink of becoming the deadliest month for U.S. forces this year.

A total of 103 U.S. soldiers have been killed so far in May, on...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16960 David Ignatius

WASHINGTON -- As U.S. and Iranian diplomats prepare for a crucial meeting in Baghdad this Monday, what's on Tehran's mind? The normal reportorial techniques aren't much help, since the Iranians aren't talking publicly. But we c...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16959 By Jamil Anderlini in Hong Kong

In China, the role models presented by the state-controlled media tell you much about the momentous social changes of the past few decades.

In the golden years before the Cultural Revolution, the masses were...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16958 By Andrew E. Kramer

MOSCOW: The Russian government is pressing a bold strategy this spring to secure for Gazprom, the state natural gas company, a monopoly on exports of the fuel to Asia.

In the latest onslaught, Moscow is threatening one ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16957 The Bush administration��s never-ending push to turn federal agencies into favor-filled partisan clubhouses has just been confirmed in red-handed detail at the General Services Administration, the government��s main housekeeping agency. Investigator...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Tue, 29 May 2007 13:58:05 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16835 Indian Prime Minister Singh has urged business leaders to ensure that a share of the nation's economic prosperity helps India's poor. At a conference in New Delhi on Thursday, Mr. Singh unveiled a 10-point pl...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 28 May 2007 10:38:01 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16834 Chinese and Japanese officials have opened talks in Beijing on a long-standing dispute over drilling rights in the East China Sea. Before the start of Friday's meeting, Tokyo's head negotiator, said the Japanese...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 28 May 2007 10:37:16 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16833 The U.S. Senate has drastically revised a guest worker program that is a key provision of a controversial new immigration reform bill. Lawmakers approved an amendment Wednesday to cap the number of foreign l...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 28 May 2007 10:36:33 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16832 �ŰͿ�˹���޳Ƽ�������֮�󽡿���ת

Cuban President Fidel Castro says his health has improved after several operations that -- at first -- were not successful. In an editorial released by the Cuban government Wednesday, Mr. Castro said that h...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 28 May 2007 10:35:32 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16831 �й���ʼ����������ܺ�������

Chinese officials have begun an investigation into reports that toothpaste produced in China and exported to Panama and other Central American countries contains a potentially deadly chemical.

A statement po...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 28 May 2007 10:33:44 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16830 �й���Ȼ�ֺ�2006�����3000��������

A Chinese government report says floods, typhoons and drought killed more than three thousand people in the country last year. The state-run Xinhua news agency quotes the Ministry of Civil Affairs report th...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Mon, 28 May 2007 10:32:47 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16688 WASHINGTON - Fossilized foot marks left by a big meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.

Dinosaurs ruled the land from...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 25 May 2007 15:04:17 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16687 By William Pesek

May 25 -- Alan Greenspan and Li Ka-Shing may understand more than most what comedian Rodney Dangerfield meant when he said "I don't get no respect".

Here you have Greenspan, the man often called the greatest central banker w...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Fri, 25 May 2007 15:04:17 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16664 A lawyer to deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday handed a letter objecting to the move by the Assets Examination Commit-tee (AEC) to make public the investigation file in the Ratchadaphsek land case.

Lawyer Pichit Chuenban said th...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 24 May 2007 16:09:07 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16663 President Nicolas Sarkozy promised his countrymen a break with the past, and he has not wasted time.

The leaner, 15-member cabinet that Sarkozy introduced two days after he was sworn in last week is led by Prime Minister Fran?ois Fillon, who is...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Thu, 24 May 2007 16:09:07 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16550 The number of people who received workers accident compensation due to emotional disorders in fiscal 2006 marked a record high of 205, up 61 percent from the previous year, a survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has found.

Of them, ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 23 May 2007 16:45:56 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16549 By Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing

Top US and Chinese government officials meeting in Washington on Tuesday for the second round of strategic economic talks between the two countries will show that thei...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 23 May 2007 16:45:56 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16548 By Keith Bradsher

HONG KONG: A day after buying a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group, China sought Monday to offer assurances that it was looking only to improve its returns on overseas investments - not to take control of foreign compani...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 23 May 2007 16:45:56 GMT http://www.xinxi110.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-16547 By CARL HULSE

WASHINGTON, May 22 �� Congressional Democrats relented Tuesday on their insistence that a war spending measure set a date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq. Instead, they moved toward a deal with President Bush that ...]]> English News tianshanyunhai Wed, 23 May 2007 16:45:56 GMT