Restart Six-Party Talks, says Wang

Easing of tensions on peninsula presents 'a good opportunity'

Brazilian president postpones US state visit over spying

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postponed a long-planned state visit to the United States on Tuesday, the most serious diplomatic fallout yet from Edward Snowden's leak of Washington's spying secrets.

Please leave your guns at home, Starbucks asks US customers

Coffee chain Starbucks Corp has asked customers in the United States to leave their guns at home, after being dragged into an increasingly fractious debate over gun rights in the wake of multiple mass shootings.

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Solution to growth of new-energy firms blowing in the wind

Seven years after China's Renewable Energy Law took effect in January 2006, renewable energy companies are making huge contributions to the reduction of air pollution.

Changeover conundrum

Opened in 1999, Huaneng Beijing Thermal Power Plant has four coal-fired generation units, which have a combined capacity of 845 megawatts. It provides 10 percent of the electricity consumed in Beijing annually and about 33 percent of the heat supplied to the city's central heating pipe network.

The slow death of 'King Coal'

Seeking to reduce air pollution, Beijing municipal's government has decided to cut coal consumption to 15 million metric tons by 2015, from 23.3 million tons in 2012, and to less than 10 million tons by 2017.

Getting rid of the fossils

China's total energy consumption, measured in tons of coal, was 3.62 billion metric tons in 2012, rising from 1.7 billion tons in 2003. Meanwhile, non-fossil energy accounted for 9.6 percent of total primary energy consumption and will grow to 15 percent by 2020, according to the National Energy Administration.

Beijing plans gas-fired future to solve problem

China will reduce its consumption of coal and gradually increase the use of natural gas during the next few years, according to the Airborne Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (2013-17), which was released by the State Council on Thursday.

Xinjiang scores on the national stage at last

When Erjet, the goalkeeper for the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's under-20 soccer team, buried his face in the grass and wept, the crowd in Shenyang Tiexi Stadium gave him an ovation fit for a hero.

Participation is seen as key to success

Improving public participation in sports is more important to the youth development of China's "big three" ball games than medals, according to coaches and experts.

Happily ever after until the divorce

'Sometimes, I believe everything comes with an expiration date and no relationship can be immortal" is a lyric from a love song by Faye Wong, the Chinese pop diva, who announced the end of her second marriage on Friday.