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Jia Qinglin , chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference , joins a panel discussion with deputies to the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress from southeast China's Taiwan Province in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2010.

In this file photo taken Thursday May 25, 2006, a Chinese model uses a mobile phone to control a robot made by Chinese computer maker Lenovo at a high-tech exhibition in Beijing, China.

Chinese appliance maker Haier says it has joined with General Electric in selling GE appliances to rural areas, the focus of subsidies intended to boost spending by hundreds of millions of farmers.

By Kang Juan Less than two years after China's first high-speed railway went into operation, the country is now planning to extend its rail network beyond its borders, a project that will involve 17 nations, a Ministry of Railways spokesman confirmed to the Global Times Thursday.

ELEVEN Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a zoo in China in the past three months.

Chinese paramilitaries have rounded up hundreds of Tibetans in advance of the anniversary of the fatal riots that took place in 2008.

The governments of Xi'an and Xianyang, two major cities in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have been fined a total of 500,000 yuan for polluting a tributary of the Yellow River, China's second longest waterway, the local environment watchdog said Thursday.

The South China Morning Post reported Thursday that Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, said some reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they hadn't been properly trained.

Further administrative curbs likely in property market, bank lending BEIJING - Real estate prices in February rose at the fastest pace in almost two years, adding urgency to the government's efforts to rein in speculation and increase the amount of affordable housing.

A press conference on the development of China's agriculture and rural economy is held on the sidelines of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress in Beijing, capital of China, March 10, 2010.

Beijing - China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported on Wednesday.

Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a shadow over the latest U.S. push for Mideast peace.

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress , delivers a work report of the Standing Committee of the NPC during the third plenary meeting of the Third Session of the 11th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2010.

A CNN article reports on the Chinese government's proposed ban on eating cats and dogs.

As the economy recovers, energy prices are rising and that is placing extra strain on families' budgets.

Li Yizhong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said yesterday that green vehicles are expensive because of the huge investment as the technology is still being developed.

Visitors look at the American-born panda Tai Shan at the Ya'an Bifeng Gorge Breeding Base in Sichuan province, China, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

Israel's move to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has threatened to sabotage newly agreed indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority before they can even begin.

In this Oct. 16, 2009 file photo, a bank clerk counts U.S. 100 dollar bills near bundles of Chinese renminbi notes at a bank in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province.

A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against the owner and a former mechanic.