Celebrating someone's birthday is a Champagne time - but engineering his or her rebirth certainly isn't.
China will not bow to pressure from the outside world on revaluing the renminbi and any changes in the nation's foreign exchange will be made on China's own terms, Chinese officials said.
Although an increasing number of high school seniors in China are choosing to study in foreign countries, most still have to take Gaokao, the national college entrance examination, before they can be admitted by a university. And of course, higher scores mean higher the chance to enter a better university. The fiercely competitive annual examination is widely regarded by Chinese as the make-or-break test for university admissions.
President Hu Jintao will pay a five-day visit to Central Asian nations and attend the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit June 9-12.
A Beijing court Tuesday morning sentenced Huang Guangyu, former chairman of Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings, to 14 years in prison
The clashes between the troops and red-shirt protesters have claimed 37 lives in Bangkok over the past four days. On Monday, Thai leaders rejected protesters' demands and the military defended its crackdown policy. At the same day, an anti-government red-shirt leader died of shooting wound in hospital. It seems that Thailand now is in a crucial state...[Timeline of Thailand's Crisis]