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Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with heroes of the Chinese Air Force on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of China Air Force in Beijing, China, Nov.

The northern and eastern parts of China are to be shrouded in thick fog Saturday morning, the National Meteorological Center said Friday, warning of increasing safety risk on road and in airports.

China on Saturday shrugged off international pressure to appreciate its currency, saying developed countries should focus on the quality of their own economic policy-making. Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren, speaking after finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 nations met in Scotland, said countries with global reserve ...

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ___ LONDON - Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported a quarterly loss of 1.8 billion pounds despite an improvement in underlying profits and said lending to small- and medium-sized companies increased 5 percent.

There have been no reports of casualties and building collapses after a moderate earthquake hit Xigaze Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Sunday morning, local government sources said.

Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs - " 2,000 of them in China.A The baby - " Washington -- doesn't cry or whine or spit in the consortium's face.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday met Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa and expressed China's willingness to further its cooperation with the Arab countries by enriching the contents of the China-Arab friendly cooperation.

Senior public security officials from China and Russia met here Friday, vowing to enhance cooperation and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability.

Foreign air force chiefs attending a Beijing forum Friday called for more cooperation and dialogue in maintaining airspace security.

China Minmetals Corporation, the country's largest state-owned metals trader, had said it was conducting research on a London Mining iron ore project in Sierra Leone and has not signed any cooperation deal for the same, China Daily reported on Saturday.

Chinese semiconductor company Actions Semiconductor Co. said Thursday it has promoted Niccolo Chen to be its new CEO.

A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported.

President Hu Jintao greets Jiang Ying, widow of Qian Xuesen, known as the country's "father of space technology," at a ceremony at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing yesterday.

The robust trade and growing economic cooperation between China and Africa have created a "win-win" situation for both sides, which are complementary in a wide range of aspects.

Buyers pass a exhibiting stand of clothes during the 106th China Export and Import Trade Fair, or Canton Fair, in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov.

China's foreign ministry insisted on Thursday that the country's intentions in space were peaceful, after comments from top air force brass preparing to celebrate a 60th anniversary worried analysts in the United States.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee on Thursday.

Senator Charles E. Schumer , the New York Democrat, is calling on the Obama administration to block the use of stimulus funds for a utility-scale wind farm in West Texas that would make use of turbines manufactured largely in China.

Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so.

Eight-percent growth was no longer a problem for China's economy this year, but the real challenge was to push forward structural adjustments, a senior economist said Thursday.