BEIJING (Reuters) - China executed two men who abducted and sold children, some of whom still cannot find their parents, the official news ...
The Commonwealth is trying to shape the direction of upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen by inviting top outside leaders to a weekend summit ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, said Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 operating system launch last month has been positive for year-end PC sales, though the gains were within expectations. Acer's CEO said it was keeping its quarterly ...
China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth by 2020, building momentum for Copenhagen China promised Thursday to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Six world powers are demanding Iran immediately mothball a uranium enrichment site it hid for years in a resolution to be voted on by U.N. nuclear agency governors, calling it a message to Tehran to change its ways. A ...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it is investigating reports of mutations in the swine flu virus, after half-a-dozen countries recorded cases in which the virus was transforming. "The question is whether these mutations again suggest that there is a fundamental ...
European employers' chiefs on Thursday urged eurozone leaders, heading to China on Sunday to discuss exchange rates, to call for a revaluation of the yuan by Beijing. In a letter to European Central Bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet made public on Thursday, Juergen ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate envoy said on Thursday emissions absorbed by carbon "sinks" will not be covered by the country's carbon intensity target, which will be calculated using energy consumption and "production processes." Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the powerful ...
US and Chinese proposals for tackling greenhouse gases were hailed Thursday while confirmation their leaders will attend next month's climate summit boosted hopes for a global-warming accord. Beijing unveiled its first targets for tackling its emissions and announced that Premier Wen Jiabao ...
China announced its first targets for limiting carbon emissions on Thursday, joining the United States in revealing the stance it will take at next month's high-stakes climate summit. China will cut the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic ...
China unveiled on Thursday what it called an ambitious plan to boost energy efficiency and curb its carbon footprint in the most detailed indication yet of its stance heading into a world climate summit. The world's most populous country will cut the ...
Group says Chinese stimulus-fueled overinvestment could drive up exports, strain trade ties China's stimulus spending has fueled massive overexpansion in industrial capacity that could drive a surge in low-priced exports amid weak global demand, possibly igniting a protectionist backlash abroad, a European ...
