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Maglev extension given green light

By Zha Minjie | 2010-3-14

THE extension plan for Shanghai's magnetic levitation train, the Maglev, is back on track. The Ministry of Railways chief planner, Zheng Jian, sai...

China set to bid for US train links

CHINA plans to bid for contracts to build US high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a gover...

Russian rail works not on agenda

Probe focuses on death of 11 tigers

Paddy's Day mood in full voice

At last, to the airport by Metro

PASSENGERS will be able to get to Hongqiao International Airport's new terminal via Metro Line 2 from Tuesday. But those with flights from the old ter...

All eyes on the girls at city exhibition

THERE was a rush for front row seats when the Seventh China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition opened at the Shanghai Interna...

We're not lovin' it

ABOUT 29 percent of Chinese women are not satisfied with their sex lives, according to a survey of 10,836 women released as the sex expo opened in Sha...

Bus travelers to be added to security list

Lover to pay after fall from 4th floor

2 pulled from landslide, but only one survives

A 17-YEAR-old girl -- pulled alive with her older brother early yesterday morning from a landslide where they had been buried for 54 hours -- died in ...

6 injured when stage collapses

FOUR media reporters and two members of the audience attending the production launch of a new movie in Yu County in Shanxi Province's Yangquan City w...

Diary leads to charge

AN official in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was arrested yesterday after his incriminating diary was posted online and drew extensiv...

Landslide survivor in stable condition

China hits back at US human rights

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1997, Chongqing became China's fourth municipality after Shanghai, Beijing and Tianji...

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China targets production growth at 11%

CHINA is targeting 11 percent growth in industrial production this year, and much of that should come from less energy-consuming and higher-tech secto...

US action worsens trade row

TRADE disputes between the United States and China continued to worsen as the US announced yesterday that it would impose an anti-dumping tariff of up...

Toyota slapped with California lawsuit

SOUTHERN California prosecutors filed the first US consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp yesterday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud"...

GM recalls 2,065 Chevy SUVs in China

CIC overseas investments see double-digit yields

Surprise fall in US trade gap in January

US consumers raise spending

Li, Henin packed off early in Indian Wells

BRITISH qualifier Elena Baltacha "fought her heart out" to record the biggest win of her career when she upset seventh seed Li Na of China at the BNP ...

Herbst and Riesch take slalom titles

REINFRIED Herbst won the World Cup slalom title yesterday to give Austria's men some consolation after a disappointing season. Herbst's ninth pla...

Ennis claims pentathlon crown

BRITISH world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis posted the fourth-best pentathlon score of all-time when she won the event with 4,937 points at the wo...

Vettel snatches pole for Bahrain opener

Baltacha upsets Li, Dulko stuns Henin

Tally room sets to work

Toyota gets first consumer lawsuit

SOUTHERN California prosecutors filed the first US consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud"...

Artist threat 3 released

THREE Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three other men and an Americ...

Obama gives notice of big education push

Suicide bomber kills 11 in Swat reprisal attack

Travel | Film and TV | Events | Health

Festival celebrates fields of gold

THE Fengxian Rape Flower Festival will be held from March 29 to April 12 and visitors can enjoy scenery, folk performances and home cooking. Fengxian ...

Building Nanqiao New City

NANQIAO New City will be an economic hub on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay and in 15 years' time it will be a green, clean engine of growth and home ...

Protecting Old Town charms

FENGXIAN Old Town near Hangzhou Bay will be preserved, restored and cleaned up and many non-traditional buildings will be removed in a recently approv...

Cheering test-tube quake baby

Astonishing the world anew

In her own style

Metal sculpture shows Buddhism influence

Chinese perspectives | Foreign perspectives

How the 'Nordic Tiger' lost bite and might

LAST Saturday, Icelandic voters flatly rejected a government deal to repay British and Dutch depositors the equivalent of US$5.3 billion lost in the d...

America's obsession with speculation

ONE of the major changes in Chinese attitudes in the past 30 years is that speculation has been elevated from a criminal offense to a mass movement. ...

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Balancing Net freedoms with public interest

Divorce rates rise, can mediators help?