Sharapova sets up Li final Sky Sports | Maria Sharapova will face China's Li Na in the final of the Rome Masters following a 6-3 6-4 triumph over Germany's Angelique Kerber. | The Russian required 89 minutes to despatch Kerber, whose move into the WTA top-10 on Monday will complete a line-up for 10 different nationalities at the summit ...
Wheat, gold make stunning runs in nervous markets The Times Of India Tweet | NEW YORK: Wheat charged higher on Friday to post its biggest weekly gain in 16 years and gold continued its recovery from four-month lows as commodity markets saw selective buying amid lingering worries about the euro zone. | Prices of crude oil and copper -- two of the biggest industrial co...
Top 10 attractions in China's Sichuan Xinhua | BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Looking at a tourist map of Sichuan, you may find a lot of places to your liking. Don't know which one to choose? Then we give you our top 10 Sichuan attractions for your reference. | Yading | Yading(Source: www....
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Liu Xiang stays modest ahead of Olympics France24 | AFP - Chinese athletics superstar Liu Xiang is playing down expectations for his performance at the London Olympics despite setting a season's best time in the 110m hurdles on Saturday. | Liu became China's first ever Olympic track champion at Athe...
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic ...
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Chinese herbal extract may help curb binge drinking Newstrack India | Washington, May 18 (ANI): An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking. | This i...
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term Denver Post | BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the high...
China shadow looming, Taiwan's Ma set for 2nd term The Guardian | TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou is set to begin his second presidential term caught between China's desire to exert greater influence over his democratic island and...
Mexico makes arrests over drug violence Al Jazeera | The Mexican army has arrested suspects over the slaughter of 49 people who were decapitated, mutilated and left in plastic bags on the side of a highway. | Among those arrested was Daniel Elizondo, known as "El Loco" ("the crazy man") and believed ...
Tunnel blast kills 20 at Chinese construction site Dayton Daily News | BEIJING — A blast in a tunnel has killed 20 workers at a highway construction site in central China. | The explosion Saturday in Hunan province also injured one person, said two officials from the provincial work safety bureau. They would onl...
Chinese dissident Chen arrives in US Sydney Morning Herald | US:Chinese dissident Chen arrives in US | US Chen | NEWARK, New Jersey, May 19 Agencies - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has arrived in the United States on a flight from Beijing, a month after escaping house arrest in China. Advertisement...
China poses no threat to India: Pallam Raju The Hindu China posed no threat to India despite border dispute but the country was equipping itself well and having a strong deterrence posture so that no adversary took it for granted, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr M.M. Pallam Raju, said today. | “I think it is not a threat. We have a very healthy economic partnership with China, which is our...
World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. | The fall in European shares followed a sharp downturn in Asia where markets were also rattled by weak U.S. manufacturing figures. | The nervousness about Spain's banks co...