European employers' chiefs on Thursday urged eurozone leaders, heading to China on Sunday to discuss exchange rates, to call for a revaluation of ...
China announced its first targets for limiting carbon emissions on Thursday, joining the United States in revealing the stance it will take at ...
File - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Wang Zifei, is seen at lower center, while listening to President Barack Obama answer questions during his town hall meeting at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China. Wang has become China's ...
FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2009 file photo, a worker labors at a steel mill in a village of Jiangyin city, Jiangsu Province, China. China's stimulus has fueled massive overexpansion in industrial capacity taht could drive a surge in low-priced exports ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month to demonstrate his nation's willingness to work with the global community, the government said Thursday. "Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the 15th conference of signatories to the United ...
A court in northern China sentenced five church leaders to up to seven years in prison after they tried to stop their place of worship being torn down, their lawyer said Thursday. The five were sentenced by a court in Linfen city, ...
President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit to offer the first US plan to cut carbon emissions, officials said, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed. The Obama administration offered to curb US emissions by 17 percent ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend global talks in Copenhagen that aim to forge the basis of a new climate change treaty, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, calling the trip a show of cooperativeness. Foreign Ministry spokesman ...
OBAMA IN CHINA Long on theater, short on specifics. Thus go most visits of U.S. Presidents to China, and Barack Obama's first trip proved no exception. Even as Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Nov. 17 offered a lengthy Joint Statement ...
State magazine reports on black jails, raising hopes of government acknowledgment of problem It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them ...
Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday he was assured that U.S. influence on Pakistan would help prod Islamabad to crack down on militants who target India. Singh said his talks with President Barack Obama on Tuesday produced ...
