China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Sunday it will extend the auto replacement subsidy from May 31 to December 31.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping left Beijing Monday morning for official visits to Bangladesh, Laos, New Zealand and Australia.
China strongly opposes a declaration issued by the European Union on a Chinese human rights case, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang here Sunday.
The mainland reached a basic consensus with Taiwan on Sunday over the main plank of a landmark trade pact, after experts from both sides finished the third round of negotiations in Beijing.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan held a telephone conversation Sunday, marking the official activation of the China-Japan prime ministerial hotline.
China and Kazakhstan have signed contracts on civil nuclear energy and a second natural gas pipeline as Chinese President Hu Jintao completed his second visit to the Central Asian neighbor within six months.
Faster-than-expected export growth in May is unlikely to prompt the government to have a major rethink of its current policies on trade and the currency.
Robert Koren scored a late goal Sunday to give Slovenia a 1-0 win over 10-man Algeria and first place in Group C of the World Cup.
From big banks' exotic trades to the credit cards in people's wallets, a few contentious issues could upend a delicate political equilibrium as US lawmakers try to blend House and Senate bills into a single rewrite of banking regulations.
A total of 27 primary school students fell ill Sunday morning after inhaling toxic gas in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said local authorities.
Two police officers were killed and another one injured in an attack in Russia's North Caucasian republic of Dagestan on Sunday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
At least 15 Pakistani students were held hostage by extremists in Kyrgyzstan as one of them was reportedly killed, local media quoted the Foreign Office of Pakistan as saying on Sunday.