2008-09-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday urged Congress to swiftly pass the Bush administration's 700 billion U.S. dollar plan to bail out the financial

2008-09-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in remarks at the high-level meeting on Africa's development needs on Monday, urged donor countries to implement their 2005 pled

2008-09-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices soared over 20 percent Monday, the biggest ever one-day gain on record, on short squeeze and concerns about the outlook of the U.S. dollar. Light, sweet

2008-09-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki announced his resignation on Sunday. The resignation will be effective from a date to be decided by South Africa's parliamen

2008-09-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that he would outline Iran's nuclear activities in the UN General Assembly meeting during his visit to New York, the official

2008-09-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Ehud Olmert on Sunday evening submitted his resignation letter to President Shimon Peres, formally stepping down from the premiership. The outgoing prime

2008-09-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a blast outside Marriott of Pakistan's capital Islamabad has risen to 40, local TV channel quoted police sources as saying on Saturday. The blast als

2008-09-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Depressed by the global economic recession and Wall Street turmoil, the price of crude oil plummeted heavily this week. Market analysts said the drop would bolster China

2008-09-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Bush administration is planning to buy 700 billion dollars of bad debt from financial institutions in efforts to deal with the financial crisis. The plan, part of

2008-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said Friday his administration is taking "unprecedented action" to deal with the ailing financial markets. "America's

2008-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that his country will do everything possible to restore friendly relations with Georgia, Russian news agencies reported.

2008-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that the government must now take "further, decisive action" to buy from financial organizations the "

2008-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was regaining his lead in national polls released on Thursday over his Republican rival John McCain, as the country'

2008-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Sept. 19 -- Financial regulators have asked China's financial institutions to submit detailed records of their investments in the U. S. and European financial assets to ascertain the full ex

2008-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Major central banks across the world on Thursday acted promptly to infuse thousands of millions of U.S. dollars into the financial market to rescue the battered sector an

2008-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the leaders of Georgia's breakaway regions -- South Ossetia and Abkhazia -- signed treaties of friendship, cooperation and mutual as

2008-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Sept. 18 -- U.S. flash memory maker SanDisk Corp rejected a 5.9-billion-U.S. dollar-bid by top memory chip-maker, Samsung Electronics Co, but would not rule out a deal at a better price. B

2008-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street plummeted again Wednesday with Dow Jones losing 450 points, as investors became more worried that the financial crisis would continue to deteriorate. U.S

2008-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

TBILISI, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Tuesday that the alliance will continue to expand and the road to membership is "wide open" for Georgia. The NATO secr

2008-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street ended higher after an extremely volatile session on Tuesday as the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates unchanged boosted the market's co

2008-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Sept. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will lend an 85 billion-U.S. dollar-bridge-loan for American International Group I

2008-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. state of Texas was struggling to provide relief to its residents who have been badly hit by the Hurricane Ike on Monday, as the storm moved to Canada. Acc

2008-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday that he has never considered to use taxpayer money to bail out Lehman Brothers, which was choked by the credit crisis

2008-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- New York stocks made landslide losses on Monday with Dow Jones shedding more than 500 points, as the U.S. financial turmoil battered investors' confidence in the health

2008-09-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has raised a total of 66 million U.S. dollars in August, when he was officially nominated at the party's national co