UNITED NATIONS, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Top UN officials on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of more than 90 civilians in Syria, and stressed that those responsible for the deadly attack must be held accountable. Observers from the UN Supervision Mis …

  NANNING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Trains on a major railway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region began running again late on Friday afternoon, after they were disrupted by torrential rain earlier in the day. Services resumed at about 5 p.m., rai …

CHANGSHA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- A dam burst Friday evening in the central province of Hunan but no casualties had been reported as scores of villagers downstream had been relocated, according to the provincial authorities on Saturday. The Badoucun reservoi …

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Department of State on Friday reassured the U.S. universities in collaboration with Confucius Institutes that it will help fix the visa mess-up for Chinese language teachers in need and make sure nobody is require …

  TIANJIN, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Gaoli was reelected secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Saturday. Zhang, born in November 1946 replica ray ban sunglasses, was elected to the post at the first plenary …

  The United States on Friday declined to name China a currency manipulator but said it would "press for policy changes that yield greater exchange rate flexibility" in the yuan. The Chinese currency remains "significantly undervalued" and "further appr …

BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Environmental Protection has required 74 cities to apply a more comprehensive air quality monitoring standard and publish daily reports on PM2.5, a hazardous airborne pollutant, by the end of 2012. Cities in t …

By Li Hongmei, Specially for Sina English Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Wednesday warned against settling disputes by armed force as China sent nearly 100 vessels to Huangyan Island, raising tensions with the Philippines in the dispu …

BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Greenland Sea at 6:47 a.m. Friday (Beijing Time) cheap ray bans, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was monitored at …

China on Thursday congratulated Margaret Chan for her successful reelection as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei passed on the message at a regular press conference and said China appreciated …