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China and Switzerland on Friday reached consensus on a bilateral free trade agreement, the first of its kind between China and a major Western economy.

Joanne Xu and Xu Shuai are pictured in the article about their plight first published in Southern Metropolis Daily.

China's graduating high school students are bracing themselves for the arduous "gaokao" college entrance exams, a test so grueling that it is notorious in the country for driving students to do anything to get an advantage .

Reconstruction in the earthquake-affected zone in southwest China's Sichuan Province should be conducted in a scientific, orderly and efficient manner, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli has stressed.

China's food safety problems are continuing to dominate headlines. Amid new claims of cadmium-tainted rice in Guangzhou , reports from northwestern Qinghai province are saying that over 500 students have fallen ill after consuming biscuits and milk provided by their school.

It took dozens of volunteers half a year searching old Chinese maps and villages, but finally the online-organised group helped Luo Gang find where he was kidnapped 23 years ago - and his birth family.

A NORTH Korean envoy has handed China's President Xi Jinping a letter from leader Kim Jong-Un in a sign Pyongyang may be backing away from confrontation with the international community.

A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions.

That kid got run over twice and those people just did nothing! We should denounce the People's Republic of China.

Zhang Guangcong, a policeman, grasps his eyes as he pulls a fourteen-year-old girl from the stinking river water.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations.

The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Mr.

Appeal China Sichuan Earthquake Assistance CHN131 Appeal Target: US$1,818,803 Balance Requested: US$1,685,008 Geneva, 24 May 2013 At 08:02 on 20 April 2013, Beijing time, a level 7 earthquake hit Lushan County of Yaan City, Sichuan Province.

Contact at the top level, featuring an intergovernmental consultation mechanism, has been a driving force in enhancing political trust and boosting cooperation between China and Germany.

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- World War II was raging in Europe and all over the Orient. In March 1944, my turn came to enter training for military service.

Li Keqiang Says China to Import $10 Trillion of Goods in 5 Years China will import a total of $10 trillion worth of goods and invest $500 billion overseas in the next five years, premier Li Keqiang wrote in an article published in Swiss newspaper the New Zurich Times.

Ctrip to Invest in Mobile Hotel Booking App Ctrip.com International Ltd , China's biggest online travel agency, told Bianews.com that it plans to invest in Kuai Jie Jiu Dian Guan Jia, a mobile app for hotel booking, and that the company will be spun off from its parent 133.cn, a flight booking site.

After a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck central China April 20, the ELCA sent $15,000 to the China Christian Council for emergency food, tents, quilts, medicine and more in the Sichuan province.

The H7N9 bird flu virus has not been detected in poultry farms, with positive samples mainly coming from live poultry markets, China's Ministry of Agriculture said Thursday.

AmRest HK Limited, a HK Company, recently celebrated the grand opening of its second La Tagliatella Italian restaurant in Shanghai, China.