2008-05-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Xinhua) -- As polls closed in the Democratic primary in Indiana, early results showed Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York ahead of rival Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. With 5 perce

2008-05-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Crude futures topped 120 U.S. dollars a barrel for the first time Monday on supply concerns. Light, sweet crude for June delivery rocketed to 120.36 dollars on the New York

2008-05-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A new USA Today/Gallup poll out Monday found U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York leads her rival Senator Barack Obama of Illinois by 7 percent nationwide ahead of Tu

2008-05-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

MADRID, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Finance ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as China, Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday on the minimum scale of a regional foreign res

2008-05-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer stands next to his wife Silda Wall Spitzer as he announces his resignation at his office in New York, March 12, 2008. A book about former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's

2008-05-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- There are almost as many Republicans who want to see Hillary Rodham Clinton become Democratic presidential nominee as those who prefer Barack Obama, according to a poll r

2008-05-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The non-performing loans (NPL) ratio of Chinese commercial banks fell to its lowest-ever level of 6.2 percent in 2007, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission (

2008-05-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to cut a key interest rate by one quarter percentage point to 2.0 percent to prevent the economy from slipping into recessio

2008-04-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- UN agencies and the World Bank pledged on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social unrest

2008-04-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's lead in the national poll has shrunk to zero after his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, won the Pennsylvania prima

2008-04-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Sunday emphasized the need to strengthen relations between the two countries, Iran's M

2008-04-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 27 -- Google Inc believes regulators would not bar a potential deal with Yahoo Inc because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, claim sources fam

2008-04-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares ended the week on a lower note, closing down 0.7 percent on Friday after seesaw trade, just a day after the market soared on share-trading tax cuts. Th

2008-04-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush met with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas here Thursday, with the two leaders expressing confidence that Israel and the Palestinians ca

2008-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is on track to collect 10 million U.S. dollars of donations in the 24 hours after she won the April 22 Democratic presidential primar

2008-04-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW ORLEANS, The United States, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada defended the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the conclusion of an an

2008-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton saw her rating rebound on the eve of Tuesday's pivotal primary in Pennsylvania, according to polls releas

2008-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

BUENOS AIRES, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo, candidate of the opposition Patriotic Alliance for Change, has won Sunday's Paraguayan presidential elections, preliminary ele

2008-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 20 -- The Bank of England will this week announce plans to swap 50 billion pounds (99.8 billion U.S. dollars) of government bonds for United Kingdom bank mortgages in an effort to break

2008-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares continued dropping on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index diving nearly 4 percent to almost half of its highest level. The index, which

2008-04-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 18 -- Merrill Lynch & Co posted its third straight quarterly loss and will cut about 3,000 jobs after at least $6.5 billion of writedowns and a 40 percent drop in investment-banking

2008-04-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Crude oil for May delivery on Wednesday closed at nearly 115 dollars a barrel, the third straight day of records, on supply concerns on the New York Mercantile Exchange

2008-04-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, April 16 -- Nike Inc's chief executive officer Mark Parker knows how demanding Olympic athletes can be. If his company could provide equipment that takes a single gram of weight off thei

2008-04-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Army forces freed the kidnapped British journalist in the city of Basra, a military spokesman said on Monday. "I confirm that the British journalist Richar

2008-04-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met on Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem for the second time in one week, ahead of Abbas' upcoming visit