French president Francois Hollande paid a surprised visit to Afghanistan on Friday.
A supermarket in Shenyang for the first time sell more than 20 kinds of fresh vegetables, for less than one yuan half a kilogram.
South Korean taekwondo competitors going for gold at the London Olympics know the price of failure will be extreme. Such is Koreans' pride in their national sport that coming home without a gold medal would be tantamount to treason.
When Australian rower Duncan Free was lying on a Gold Coast road with a shattered femur after being hit by a car less than a year ago, it looked like his dreams of competing in a fifth Olympics were over.
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Foiled at the last in Beijing, Romanian fencer Ana-Maria Branza believes the experience will stand her in good stead to step up from silver to gold at this year's Olympic Games in London.
The Chinese nouveau riche complain that people who "hate the rich" are stupid and unreasonable, but they should look at their own behavior.
The values of Hong Kong's total exports and imports of goods both recorded year-on-year increases in April, the city's Census and Statistics Department said on Thursday.
The National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office on Thursday announced a new intellectual property rights campaign.
China's poorest residents live on $1 a day, below the World Bank poverty standard of $1.25 last year. Now the global poverty line is $2.00 a day.
Property prices will dip this year but a tumble is unlikely, a report by the China Academy of Social Sciences said on Thursday.
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