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- Paralyzed Americans travel to Chinese doctor implanting fetal cells
August 31, 2004
BEIJING - (KRT) - A Chinese neurosurgeon has been besieged by desperate Americans willing to pay $25,000 for an implant of cells from aborted fetuses, a controversial and scientifically unproven procedure that the doctor claims has helped patients with spinal injuries or the nervous-system disease known as ALS but has alarmed Western researchers.
- Chinese athletes to gain from Olympic wins
Updated: 2004-08-31
How much is an Olympic gold medal worth? For China's newest sports stars, fresh from triumph in Athens and idolized by a sports-crazy public, gold medal means they can cash in like never before.
- Money can't buy happiness, as saying goes
Updated: 2004-08-31
Chinese incomes have increased tenfold over the past two decades, and with the new wealth have come better living standards and social progress.
- China launches science satellite
Updated: 2004-08-30
China launched a recoverable science experimental satellite into a preset orbit, atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket from a launch center in northwest China.
- Chinese web portals facing tighter supervision
Updated: 2004-08-22
Chinese Web portals are facing a crackdown by mobile operators, over irregularities in their IVR (interactive voice response) offerings.
- China faces elderly dilemma
Updated: 2004-08-21
China, the world's most populous country, is now crowned with another title: one of the world's most rapidly aging nations.
- Nine careers added to China's job list
Updated: 2004-08-20
Job hunters struggling in China's overcrowded job market may feel encouraged by a list of nine new occupations that have been written into the national occupation list.
- China issues "green cards" to foreigners
Updated: 2004-08-20
China has officially started to implement its own "Green Card" system, which allows foreigners to apply for permanent residence in China, the Ministry of Public Security said in Beijing Friday.
- Travellers warned about Dengue
Updated: 2004-08-20
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka have recently reported outbreaks of the disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
- China cracks down on "phone sex" services
Updated: 2004-08-18
China is carrying out a nationwide campaign to crack down on "phone sex" services, paralleling another sweeping operation against Internet pornography, Minister of Information Industry Wang Xudong said Tuesday.
- China's 'hairboy' aspires to be a rock star
Updated: 2004-08-18
He is an aspiring rock star, but Yu Zhenhuan's claim to fame for now is that he is the hairiest man in all of China.
- Deng steers China with exploring spirit
Updated: 2004-08-17
As the architect of China's reform and opening-up policy, late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping contributed greatly to the country's steady performance over the past 25 years.
- European travel giant Gullivers enters China
August 15, 2004
Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA), the largest independent supplier of global travel products, confirmed Friday it launched its China subsidiary in Beijing Wednesday, becoming the first European travel agency licensed to operate in the country.
- Agreement increases U.S.-China flights
August 15, 2004
The nation's airlines are hailing an agreement signed last month that could lead to a fivefold increase in the number of flights between the United States and China.
- High-tech assists Chinese athletes
Updated: 2004-08-14
The expected hot weather will work against all the athletes in this summer's Athens Olympic Games and the Chinese will be no exception.
- China to launch 1st moon probe in 2 years
August 12, 2004
China will launch its first moon probe satellite in two years' time, the Beijing Morning Post has reported.
- US officer indicted for beating Chinese woman
August 12, 2004
A US Homeland Security officer accused of throwing a Chinese tourist against a wall and spraying her with pepper spray was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury.
- China strives to build a "green" Internet
August 12, 2004
China will improve its long-term mechanism to combat Internet pornography, according to a senior official of the Ministry of Information Industry Thursday.
- Ritz-Carlton to expand in China
August 10, 2004
Ritz-Carlton, one of the world's top luxury hotel companies, is turning its developing focus to Asia, especially China, the world's fast growing market.
- Gov't to use US$240m on medical equipment
August 10, 2004
More than 400 Chinese and overseas businesses gathered in Beijing Monday to compete for a share of a procurement bill worth more than 2 billion yuan (US$240 million) -- the amount the Chinese Government has allocated to buy medical equipment this year.
- Consensus on border reached with Viet Nam
Updated: 2004-08-10
Diplomats from China and its neighbour Viet Nam held talks on Sunday, agreeing to take no drastic or military action in dealing with boundary disputes.
- Adult sex toy expo touches sensitive area
Updated: 2004-08-08
Although he has held many expos before, both big and small, Liang Helin, a business manager of China International Exhibition Centre Group Corp, appeared nervous about the coming expo of "adult products" which is scheduled to run from August 6-8.
- US man fakes own decapitation in video
Updated: 2004-08-08
An aspiring politician and video game designer who faked his own beheading by Iraqi militants awoke Saturday to learn that television stations around the world were showing his homemade video of the gruesome hoax.
- 76 Chinese rescued from deadly England tide
Updated: 2004-08-08
British emergency services rescued 136 shellfish diggers, including 76 Chinese citizens, who had been trapped by rising tidal waters in the same part of northwestern England where 21 Chinese migrants were drowned in February, coastguards said.
- New Guangzhou airport now operational
Updated: 2004-08-06
The new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport began operating Thursday as scheduled.
- Shanghai expo touches sensitive area
Updated: 2004-08-06
Although he has held many expos before, both big and small, Liang Helin, a business manager of China International Exhibition Centre Group Corp, appeared nervous about the coming expo of "adult products" which opened on August 6 and will end on August 8.
- Unsafe injections kill 390,000 prematurely
Updated: 2004-08-06
About 390,000 Chinese have died prematurely from unsafe injections, said a think tank of China's Ministry of Health Thursday.
- Three obstacles hinder e-commerce in China
Updated: 2004-08-05
China's e-commerce development is hindered by three problems -- online payment, existing taxation and logistics service, a report by the Ministry of Commerce says.
- China lodges complaint with Japan over map error
Updated: 2004-08-05
Chinese Foreign Ministry has lodged a complaint with the Japanese embassy to China over a Japanese Football Association mistake concerning Taiwan, sources said Thursday.
- Australian travel group opens JV in Beijing
2004-08-05
Flight Centre Limited, the largest travel agency group in Australia, opened a joint venture in Beijing yesterday.
- Net Giants on Buying Spree in China Internet Market
August 5, 2004 12:41 AM ET
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A recent buying binge by some of the world's top Internet firms is rapidly changing China's online landscape, driving local dot-coms to seek partners or risk being left behind.
- China to US: Honor promises on Taiwan
Updated: 2004-08-04 10:17
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday said China hopes the United States to honor its promise on the Taiwan issue and the US congress to correctly understand and cautiously handle the Taiwan issue.
- Measures go online to protect surfers
Updated August 4, 2004
Publishers, producers and retailers are about to pay the price for infringing the copyright of computer games and harming adolescents with unhealthy games.
- China World Trade Corporation Completes Acquisition of Interest in Leading Chinese Travel Company
Updated August 2, 2004
China World Trade Corporation (OTCBB:CWTD) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of a 51% equity interest in the New Generation Group (the operating arm of Guangdong Huahao Group), a leading Chinese travel company, for a total consideration of approximately $10 million.
- July 2004
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