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In 2008, China's mobile phone users received an average of 10.35 spam text messages per week, a decrease of 2.09 messages, or 16.8%, from 2007, as statistics released on January 6 by the 12321 complaint handling centre of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show.
The majority of the spam messages are sales promotions from real estate, retail and transportation and tourism companies.
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&$Zhang Yesui, Chinese Permanent Representative to the United Nations, attends the meeting on Gaza crisis held by Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$&$
China on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take swift action to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
China's UN Ambassador Zhang Yesui made the appeal at a high-level meet ...
On his salary, public servant Zhou Jiugeng couldn't afford the expensive cigarettes and a Vacheron Constantin watch he was seen with in an Internet photo in 2007.
Moral outrage from web surfers on Zhou's extravagance triggered an official investigation which finally ruined the district real estate administrator's career at the end of December, 2008.
For a populous country keeping up with the information age, the Internet has become a new way for people to express their opinions. ...
China sent its naval fleet on Dec. 26 2008 to join the international anti-piracy task force patrolling the waters off Somalia. The escort vessels had sailed from Sanya, a city in southern China's Hainan Province to Gulf of Aden, where they participated in the anti-piracy mission after the United Nations Security Council authorized nations to conduct land and air operations on pirate bases.
The first escort duty of the Chinese navy has attracted world attention. Whether it is difficult for th ...
Six passengers were killed and four others injured after a truck and a city bus collided head-on in north China's Hebei Province on Tuesday afternoon.
The accident happened at approximately 2:25 p.m. in Qian'an City at an intersection, a municipal traffic police department official said.
The No. 13 bus driver and a passenger died on the scene. Another person died on the way to the hospital and three more died later in the hospital. Another four passengers were receiving treatment ...
China's major portal Sohu.com on Tuesday responded to a watchdog's accusations of being slow in deleting online porn and erotic materials by asking media and users to boycott obscene contents.
Chen Luming, vice president of Sohu, said the move was meant to raise people's awareness in purifying the online environment and stop making portals the scapegoats for troublemakers who intentionally upload obscene contents.
"We call on all Internet communities, media and netizens not to pu ...
China's banking watchdog set up an office on Tuesday to help clearing up the country's commercial banks' backlogged cases of dead loans, in an effort to maintain economic stability amid global financial crisis.
At a seminar jointly held by the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and the Supreme People's Court, Cai E'sheng, CBRC vice chairman, said that the office's main function is to coordinate court order enforcement of financial cases and protect creditor's rights.
"The ...
China faces a threat of "abnormal" cross-border capital flow because of global financial tumult, the country's foreign exchange regulator said Tuesday.
Such capital movement, resulting from the world economic slowdown and financial crisis, will bring with it potential risks, said Hu Xiaolian, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
China has cut interest rates and seen its economy slowing down since the global financial crisis hit the country's exporters. Tha ...
The special representative of the Chinese government for Darfur Liu Guijin arrived in Khartoum on Tuesday on a four-day visit to Sudan.
Received by high-ranking Sudanese officials at the Khartoum International Airport, the Chinese special representative said the visit, the sixth since he was appointed to the post in May 2007, was aimed at "exchanging ideas and views with the Sudanese leadership on the Darfur issue."
"The Chinese government believes that the international communit ...
Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah met in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on Tuesday with Zhou Tiennong, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC).
China and Brunei are friendly neighbors and the relationship between the two countries has grown fully and rapidly since the two countries established diplomatic ties 18 years ago, Zhou said during the meeting.
Mutual trust in the field of politics between the two countries is deepening and bilateral coo ...
China's central bank said on Tuesday it plans to implement a pilot program of settling overseas trade with the Chinese currency instead of the U.S. dollar in 2009.
According to a press release posted on the website of the People's Bank of China, the central bank will expand financial cooperation with overseas economies and properly deal with the global financial crisis.
"We'll actively join international efforts to tackle the global financial crisis while safeguarding national in ...
Major commodities kept an upward trend on Tuesday, with metals continuing a strong rise. Corn, however, dipped after a week-long price increase following an unprecedented large-volume state purchase.
Corn contracts for May delivery closed 0.77 percent lower at 1,541 yuan (225.3 U.S. dollars) a ton in the Dalian Commodity Exchange. The price was still much higher than the international level.
Corn contracts for March delivery on the Chicago Board of Trade slipped one penny to 4.11 ...
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&$Photo taken from missile destroyer "Wuhan" of a Chinese naval fleet shows four Chinese ships sailing in the Gulf of Aden under the escort of the Chinese naval fleet, Jan. 6, 2009. The Chinese naval fleet arrived Tuesday in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia to carry out the first escort mission against pirates. Four Chinese ships, including one from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, were escor ...
Major indices tracking the performance of China-related companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed lower on Tuesday.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange dropped 32.24 points, or 0.37 percent, to close at 8,644.51.
The H-shares index, initiated in August 1994 and readjusted on Jan. 5, 2009, tracks the overall performance of 42 Chinese mainland state-owned enterprises listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The Hang Seng China ...
There were more than 50 million bloggers in China by the end of November 2008, a growth of some 6.38 percent from the end of November 2007, said Gao Lulin, deputy head of the Internet Society of China on Tuesday.
The number of bloggers, or blog authors, which are personal online journals intended for public consumption, was 47 million at the end of November 2007.
The increasing number of bloggers was because more and more Chinese want to express their own views about local and in ...
China's top envoy on the Middle East affairs has voiced a strong call for the involved parties in the ongoing conflict to exercise restraint, cease military action and armed conflict and create conditions for peaceful talks and political settlement.
In a press release Tuesday, Sun Bigan, China's special envoy to the Middle East Region, said "military actions could contribute nothing but break down the hard-won peace process in the region."
Sun made the remarks during respective m ...
There were 113,298 sale and purchase agreements for all types of building units registered in 2008 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Land Registry said on Tuesday.
The figure is down 22.2 percent on 2007 but up 14.3 percent on 2006.
The total consideration involved in these agreements was 413.11billion HK dollars (53.34 billion U.S. dollars), down 21.4 percent on 2007 but up 31.1 percent on 2006.
There were 162,912 assignments of building units lodged for registration in 2008, up 2 ...
Gold price in Hong Kong dropped 212 HK dollars to close at 7,756 HK dollars per tael on Tuesday, according to the Bank of China (Hong Kong).
The price is equivalent to 840.61 U.S. dollars a troy ounce, down 23.03 U.S. dollars at Tuesday's exchange rate of one U.S. dollar against 7.745 HK dollars.
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China's rural areas have the biggest potential in boosting domestic demand, said Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan during visits to the countryside concluded on Tuesday.
China should "especially place priority on tapping the rural market and developing the countryside" when spreading global financial crisis blunted the country's economic growth, said Wang.
He made the remarks when visiting towns, rural stores and farmers in central China's Henan Province on Monday and Tuesday.
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping urged officials with the Communist Party of China (CPC) to play more important roles when dealing with the international financial crisis.
Xi, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the remark during a conference Tuesday.
Xi asked officials to make public promises that they would better implement their duties to Party members and non-party people.
The official also urged Party of ...
China has beefed up the crackdown on illegal production or selling of fireworks in the run-up to the Spring Festival.
The Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday that in order to prevent explosions it had ordered local bureaux to step up the safety monitoring work and severely crack down on activities of producing or selling fireworks and fire cracks without authorization.
The local offices were ordered to cooperate with other authorities, find and punish illegal producers an ...
China on Tuesday said it expected the visit of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte.
"We understand the U.S. decision on cancellation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's scheduled tour to China, and expect Negroponte's visit," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a regular press conference in response to a question.
U.S. President George W. Bush told Chinese President Hu Jintao of the cancellation in a telephone conversation Sunday.
Bush said the ...
China Tuesday urged Japan not to distort the principled consensus on the East China Sea issue.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the remarks in response to a reporter's question on China's development of the Tianwaitian gas field in the East China Sea.
Under a China-Japan principled consensus on the East China Sea issue, reached in June, the two sides will, through joint exploration, select by mutual agreement areas for joint development in the block mentioned by the conse ...
A Chinese naval fleet arrived Tuesday in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia to carry out the first escort mission against pirates.
Four Chinese merchant ships, including one from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, were escorted by the fleet.
Rear-Admiral Du Jingchen, commander of the force, said the escort mission has started and "we would strictly observe UN resolutions and relevant international laws to fulfill our obligations."
Du said the task fo ...
Chinese train makers have rejected French counterpart Alstom's accusation of stealing Western technologies, saying that Alstom's call for boycott of Chinese train export is groundless, according Tuesday's Global Times.
Alstom chief executive Philippe Mellier told the Financial Times that trains exported by China used technologies stolen from West and that China has blocked biddings by foreign manufacturers.
"If Alstom really made the remark to media, the only explanation is that ...
A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Tuesday the Chinese side is ready to enhance exchanges with major political parties of India to further push forward country-to-country ties.
Liu Yunshan, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks in his meeting with a delegation from the National Democratic Alliance of India, led by Sri Bal Apte, vice president of the Indian People's Party.
Liu said it is a set policy of the CPC an ...
A photo exhibition will be held both in China and the United States to celebrate the 30th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) announced on Tuesday at a press conference.
The exhibition in China will kick off in Beijing from Jan. 12, and that in the U.S. will start in Los Angeles from Jan. 21 and both will last until the end of the year, said Li Xiaolin, vice president of the CPAFFC.
U.S. Preside ...
A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) met with a delegation from the National Democratic Alliance of India here Tuesday, vowing to promote relations between the two parties.
The CPC is willing to enhance friendly relations and cooperation with all political parties of India, including the Indian People's Party on the basis of equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, so as to promote the Sino-Indian relations, said Wang Jiarui, head ...
Taiwan stocks closed modestly higher on Tuesday with heavier turnover, according to media reports reaching here from Taipei.
The benchmark-weighted index opened at 4,719.54 and rose 28.95 points, or 0.61 percent, to close at 4,727.26 after trading between intra-day high 4,754.88 and intra-day low 4,679.43.
Turnover rose to 81.44 billion New Taiwan dollars (2.46 billion U.S. dollars) from Monday's 66.9 billion Taiwan dollars (2.03 billion U.S. dollars).
Advancing shares le ...
Hong Kong stocks fell 53.80 points, or 0.35 percent, to close at 15,509.51 on Tuesday.
Turnover increased to 53.92 billion HK dollars (6.96 billion U.S.dollars) from Monday's 49.42 billion HK dollars (6.38 billion U.S.dollars).
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China is considering introducing real estate investment trusts (REITs) to help increase financing channels for real estate developers, Qi Ji, vice minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development told a press conference Tuesday.
The move would help the country's real estate developers raise money by means other than commercial bank loans, which are now the primary source of funds, Qi said.
According to Qi, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, is wor ...
It should have been good year-end sales season for Huang Ping's IT products shop and similar shops in Zhongguancun, the technology hub in Beijing. But Huang didn't see surge in sales. Instead, sales slumped almost one-third compared to the previous year. She still felt lucky.
"At least my business kept going, some shops could not survive and have gone out of business," said Huang, pointing at an empty office outside the door.
As the global financial crisis impacts economies aroun ...
Ships from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan can request the escort services of the Chinese mainland's navy fleet in Somalian waters, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a regular press conference here Tuesday.
Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are all part of China. The Chinese government attached high importance to the safety of overseas Chinese, and the escort flotilla in Somalian waters will also protect ships from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Qin said.
The Chinese navy h ...
Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu said all efforts should be made to ensure stable rural and agricultural development and income increases for farmers.
Hui was speaking during his four-day visit to south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
"Agricultural and rural development is of vital importance to maintain a stable and relatively fast growth of the national economy this year," he told officials and farmers during his visit, which ended Tuesday.
Hui urged local aut ...
&$Israel's UN Ambassador Gabriella Shalev addresses the Security Council during the meeting on Gaza crisis at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$
&$Mahmoud Abbas (front, R), president of the Palestinian Authority, and David Miliband (front, L), British secretary of state, attend the meeting on Gaza crisis held by Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun) &$
&$United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, addresses the Security Council during the meeting on Gaza crisis at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$
&$Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the Security Council during the meeting on Gaza crisis at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$
&$United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on Gaza crisis at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009. (Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$
&$United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (R) meets with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, to discuss the crisis in Gaza at the United Nations in New York, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$
&$Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, attends the meeting on Gaza crisis held by the Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$
&$United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on Gaza crisis at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Jan. 6, 2009. (Xinhua/Hou Jun)&$