China's foreign trade volume contracted by 13.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to $904 billion, heightening concerns over the nation's economic growth.
Less than three weeks before the Milan Expo opens on May 1, the site of the showpiece event is still a mass of trucks raising dust and workers in hard hats racing to finish building after delays, corruption and cost overruns.
As former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton embarks on her second presidential bid, observers believe she will adopt a hard-line stance toward China, at least during the campaign.
I once mused aloud to my father, a World War II veteran, that his war appeared to have been fought in black and white. I was joking about the newsreels from the days before the rise of color film. He stopped me with a quiet, sobering reply: "Yes it was black and white-good and evil."
Item from April 14, 1999, in China Daily: Workers place cement slabs on the bed of the Tongzi Moat around the Forbidden City in Beijing. The moat has been given a thorough cleanup in the last few months. The bricks are designed to improve water-holding ability and curb subsidence.
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has launched her second campaign for president, becoming the first major Democrat to formally declare her candidacy.
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As China seeks more say for developing countries in the setting and shaping of international game rules, it will establish an exchange and research program with the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization.
Retired short-track speed skater Yang Yang, China's most decorated athlete, found time to give skating tips to another Olympic legend on Monday morning in Shanghai as they joined hands to promote a program supporting China's Special Olympics athletes.
Jiang Jiemin, former head of China National Petroleum Corp, the nation's top energy group, went on trial on Monday at the Hubei Provincial Hanjiang Intermediate People's Court.
A decision to restrict visits by residents of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, to Hong Kong will affect regular business and family trips, some Shenzhen residents have said.
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