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Search continues as death toll rises to 11 after ferry sinks in central China - Xinhua
A female witness who declined to give her name said the bodies of 10 students were pulled out of the water. Another student was sent to a nearby hospital but later died after treatment failed. Rescue and search work are still going on along the river, ...
Eight law-enforcement members killed by armed groups in Syria - Xinhua
The source said some members of the armed group were killed in the shooting. The group has booby-trapped the Hamidieah area, the source said, adding engineering experts were called to dismantle the explosives. Earlier Wednesday, about 11 ...
Costly student uniform sparks outrage - Xinhua
"The kindergarten has broken the rules by asking its students to purchase so many items," said the official, who refused to be named. He promised to launch an investigation. Xiehe is the first preschool in this southern metropolis to ask parents to buy ...
China celebrates 66th anniversary of victory in the war against Japanese ... - Xinhua
"It reminded me of the flames of war, and my fellows who died and were buried here," said the old man, who refused to give his name. Saturday marks the 66th anniversary of the victory against Japanese aggression. A memorial garden in the city of Hulin ...
Japan's ruling party leader must piece together fractured party, court opposition - Xinhua
To run on a platform that does not propose that makes for a good campaign but does not serve the economy or the country well," said a tax expert from Nomura Holdings, Inc., speaking on condition of anonymity. "A combination of a shrinking savings rate ...
Philippine president to ink 6 agreements during his China visit - Xinhua
24 (Xinhua) -- At least six agreements will be signed between the Philippines and China during President Benigno S. Aquino III's five-day state visit to the latter from August 30 to September 3, 2011, a senior government official said Wednesday. ...
Israel decides no "large-scale" operation to stop rockets - Xinhua
However, other government sources, speaking off the record, are unsure whether Israel's restraint will bring about the desired result. "Hamas is trying to draw Israel into fighting in the Strip, so as to weaken its power in the international arena in ...
British Council attacked in Kabul, 7 killed, 5 injured - Xinhua
Earlier another official on the condition of anonymity said six people including two police and four suicide bombers had been killed. He also added that one Afghan police and four foreigners were injured in the blasts and gun shots. ...
China's carrier sails into new era - Xinhua
Tugboats steered the vessel out of the shipyard at about 6 am Wednesday, a source close to the trial run told the Global Times. A number of service ships accompanied the carrier on her maiden voyage. The carrier took to sea without a naval code as it ...
China inflation in mild, controllable range: NDRC official - Xinhua
9 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer prices are currently within a mild and controllable range after measures to fight inflation have demonstrated some initial effect, a senior government official said Tuesday. Zhou Wangjun, vice director of the National ...
Obama attends ceremony honoring SEALs killed in Afghanistan - Xinhua
He then walked around 100 yards to the second C-17, boarded it with his military aide, and spent time on board paying his respects, according to a White House official who spoke on background. The planes carried back remains of 30 US servicemembers, ...
Syria denies military entrance, bombardment in northeastern province: official - Xinhua
Not even one tank entered Deir al-Zour, the source said, adding that some army units are dismantling and removing barricades and barriers erected by armed groups at the city entrances. The army did not enter any city unless people asked for its ...
Woman tours the country to end discrimination against hepatitis B carriers - Xinhua
A member of "weeding" group who refused to give her name said that self-denial and a sense of inferiority are more harmful to HBV carriers than any discrimination they might face. "Many carriers live their life in isolation. The government and various ...
S&P may downgrade US credit rating: official - Xinhua
5 (Xinhua) -- International ratings agency Standard & Poor's planned to downgrade US triple-A credit rating but is now reconsidering, a senior administration official said. NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Wall Street closed mixed on Friday amid ...
Japan's ex-FM heads to disputed Russian-held island - Xinhua
... Maehara left Japanese shores to visit Etorofu Island, one of the four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, to study local business infrastructure as part of his research of Russia's policies, sources close to Maehara said Friday. ...
Army not enter Hama, as armed men launch attacks on it: paper - Xinhua
The armed groups went out of control, a source said, adding that they are roaming the city streets and firing live ammunitions and Molotov against governmental and police headquarters. In a related development, Syria's state-run television aired late ...
20 million year old ape skull discovered in northeastern Uganda: gov't - Xinhua
2 (Xinhua) -- A 20 million year old ape skull has been discovered in northeastern Uganda by French and Ugandan scientists, a senior government official said here on Tuesday. Fred Opolot, the executive director of the Uganda Media Center, a government ...
Olympic champ Wang Meng injured after brawl with team manager - Xinhua
According to an anonymous source from China's State Sport General Administration, officials of the sport's governing body have departed Wednesday from Beijing to Qingdao to probe into the incident. Earlier in June, Wang Meng had put herself in another ...
Top suspect in China's biggest smuggling case repatriated from Canada - Xinhua
A source who declined to be named told Xinhua that police had escorted Lai onto a civilian flight before the plane departed from Vancouver International Airport for China in the afternoon. The repatriation, executed a day after a Canadian federal court ...
New Pentagon chief Panetta pays surprise visit to Afghanistan - Xinhua
KABUL, July 9 (Xinhua) -- New Pentagon chief Leon Panetta paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan, an offical who declined to give his name told Xinhua on Saturday. Panetta is in Bagram military airbase, about 50 km north of Kabul, and is going to have a ...
Yao Team planning to announce Yao's retirement - Xinhua
BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Yao Team is planning to announce Yao's retirement soon, a source close to Yao told Xinhua Saturday. In an email sent to Xinhua, Yao Team said Yao Ming is to hold news conference on July 20 about his "personal future ...
British PM visits Afghanistan - Xinhua
"Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Afghanistan on Monday for an official visit," the official told Xinhua but declined to give his name. However, he added that Prime Minister Cameron and President Hamid Karzai would hold a joint press conference ...
Hotel attacked in Afghan capital, Taliban claims responsibility - Xinhua
The dreadful attack, according to an eye witness who declined to be identified, happened at around 10:00 pm local time when some armed men targeted the Intercontinental Hotel with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. "At least two rockets fired by ...
3 killed, 25 wounded in Iraq's violence - Xinhua
Lieutenant Colonel Bashar Adnan, chief of the police station, was among the wounded, the source said. The town is located in what the US military named the Sunni Triangle which once was a hotbed of Iraqi insurgency against US troops and Iraqi security ...
Instability and poverty drive Afghanistan into drug base - Xinhua
There are the influential people with Land Cruiser vehicles come to village and buy it," the man told Xinhua but refused to give his name. A report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) in September 2010 described the ...