![Zhang Gaoping and Zhang Hui.[File photo]](http://insidechina.onehotspots.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/7427ea210acc130429f029-100x100.jpg)
Men compensated after 10 years in jail
A court in east China has decided to compensate two men after they were acquitted of rape charges that landed them in jail for 10 years, court sources said Monday.
Zhang Gaoping(L) and Zhang Hui.[File photo]
The Zhejiang Provincial [...]
US consumer sentiment highest in nearly 6 years
By Leah Schnurr ,ReutersMay 18, 2013, 12:00 am TWN
NEW YORK — U.S. consumer sentiment rebounded in early May to the highest level in nearly six years, an encouraging sign after recent data that has suggested economic growth is cooling.
A [...]
US consumer prices fall 0.4%, most in four years
By Christopher S. Rugaber ,APMay 17, 2013, 12:12 am TWN
WASHINGTON — A sharp fall in the cost of gas drove a measure of U.S. consumer prices down last month by the most since December 2008. Outside the drop in fuel costs, prices [...]
America Ferrera to graduate after 10 years
Former ‘Ugly Betty’ actress America Ferrera will finally graduate from university 10 years after she first enrolled on her international relations course.
Former ‘Ugly Betty’ actress America Ferrera will finally graduate [...]
Lynn Xiong pours out grievances from past seven years
The model-actress revealed her grievances during the seven years of her relationship with ex-boyfriend Aaron Kwok
Following her high-profile split with Aaron Kwok, Lynn Xiong finally opens up and talks about the grievances she suffered over [...]
Five years on, Sichuan quake survivors struggle for new life
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Survivors on Sunday mourned victims of the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan quake that struck southwest China’s Sichuan Province five years ago, while they are struggling to embrace a new life.
XINHUANEWS
Devastated city recovers 5 years after Wenchuan quake
CHENGDU, May 13 (Xinhua) — An industrial city that was hit hard by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is depending on the new energy industry to support its reconstruction.
The city of Deyang in southwest China’s Sichuan Province suffered [...]
Devastated city recovers 5 years after Wenchuan quake
An industrial city that was hit hard by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is depending on the new energy industry to support its reconstruction.
The city of Deyang in southwest China’s Sichuan Province suffered direct economic losses of 41.5 [...]
Panda care resurgent five years after quake
Forty-five giant pandas have been born in a center within the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan Province in the five years since a massive earthquake wreaked havoc on the area, sources have revealed.
Though the [...]
Greenhouse gas level highest in 2 million years
WASHINGTON, APMay 12, 2013, 12:02 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Worldwide levels of the greenhouse gas that plays the biggest role in global warming have reached their highest in almost 2 million years — an amount never before encountered [...]
Monitoring shows quake-hit zone restored after five years
BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) — The worst-hit areas in a devastating earthquake five years ago in southwest China have been restored, according to airborne remote sensing images from a Beijing institute on Saturday.
The images show that the [...]
Ferguson to leave Man Utd after 26 years in rein
LONDON, May 8 (Xinhua) — Alex Ferguson will retire as Manchester United manager at the end of the season, the Premier League champions announced Wednesday.
Ferguson, 71, guided United to 13 Premier League titles and two European Champions [...]
UCWeb to Spend RMB3 billion on Investment in Three Years
UCWeb, a leading Chinese mobile browser and service provider, today announced a RMB3 billion (about US$ 480 million) investment plan, called Project GEEK, for the next three years. It includes hiring one thousand people.
The latest rumor [...]
3,636 rare box turtles poached in 6 years at Feitsui Reservoir: ecologists
By Lauly Li ,The China PostMay 5, 2013, 12:03 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Domestic ecologists recently confirmed that over the last six years 3,636 endangered yellow-margined box turtles (食蛇龜) had been poached from their habitat [...]
US citizen gets 15 years’ hard labor in N. Korea
By Park Chan-Kyong, AFPMay 3, 2013, 12:06 am TWN
SEOUL — North Korea said Thursday it had sentenced a Korean-American tour operator to 15 years’ hard labor for “hostile acts,” stoking tensions with the United States which [...]
US urges N.Korea to free American jailed for 15 years
The United States on Thursday called for the “immediate release” of a Korean-American tour operator sentenced in North Korea to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the government.
“What we’re [...]
DPRK sentences U.S. citizen to 15 years of compulsory labor for “hostile acts”
PYONGYANG, May 2 (Xinhua) — A U.S. citizen was sentenced 15 years of compulsory labor by the Supreme Court of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday, the official KCNA news agency said Thursday.
Pae Jun Ho, [...]
Abe steps up nationalist campaign as Japan marks 61 years of sovereignty
By Mari Yamaguchi ,APApril 29, 2013, 12:03 am TWN
TOKYO — Japan for the first time Sunday officially marked the 61st anniversary of the day it regained sovereignty following its World War II defeat, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [...]
Abe steps up nationalist campaign as Japan marks 61 years of sovereignty
By Mari Yamaguchi ,APApril 29, 2013, 12:03 am TWN
TOKYO — Japan for the first time Sunday officially marked the 61st anniversary of the day it regained sovereignty following its World War II defeat, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [...]
Super rice project could be finished in 3 years
New super rice strains with an expected yield of 15 tons per hectare could be developed in three years, Chinese agricultural scientist Yuan Longping said on Friday.
A scientific research project, undertaken by Yuan, to develop the new super [...]
Recent Comments