TEHRAN, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian legislators picked Ali Larijani as the interim speaker of the new Majlis (parliament) on Sunday. Out of 281 votes, Larijani was elected with 173 votes in favor. The other candidate, Mohammad Reza Aref, who is a...
Despite temperatures of around 30-degrees on Sunday, hundreds turned out in southwest Beijing to take part in what's known as an ultra-marathon. More than twice the distance of a marathon, which is just over 42-kilometers, ultra-marathons are conside...
LONDON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Remain Campaign's battle bus in London Monday, with newly-elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan at his side. Cameron welcomed Labour Party mayor Khan to the rally. The two men hav...
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker that gave Apple a run for its money, is taking on the drone world with a $610 product that undercuts market leader DJI by almost 25 per cent. 曾对苹果(Apple)构成强劲挑战的中国智能手机制造商小米...
Chinas central bank set its daily currency fix at the lowest level in five years, tracking a weaker market price as the dollar rally took its toll on the renminbi. 中国央行将每日人民币汇率中间价定在五年来的最低水平，以追踪较...
Alibaba, the US-listed Chinese ecommerce group, is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for potential violations of US securities law. 在美国上市的中国电子商务集团阿里巴巴(Alibaba)由于可能违反美国证券...
In the southern United States, snakes can be vibrant and bright. In the North, they tend to be dark and drab. A dark coat may seem a bit depressing. It may, however, help northern snakes soak up heat from the sun more quickly than their southern kin,...
Silicon Valley likes to keep the media on a tight leash. Tech executives expect obedience, if not reverence, from reporters. They dole out information as grudgingly as possible. Sometimes they simply buy a chunk of a publication, a time-honored metho...
An IBM executive told a recent conference that when supercomputer Deep Blue was halfway through its 1997 chess match with Garry Kasparov, it made a random move, due to a software bug. Assuming the machine was smarter than it was, Kasparov later made...
As all good golfers know, less is often more. Might the same be true when it comes to financial reporting? The page count inflation of company reporting over the past two decades has been staggering. Back in the mid-1990s the typical report and accou...
Chinas construction equipment makers are ramping up the competition against global leaders such as Caterpillar, Komatsu and Deere and appear set to discount products to build market share, a new study has found. 一份新的研究报告显示，中国建...
Oil prices on both side of the Atlantic have pushed above $50 a barrel for the first time this year as investors weigh the impact of supply disruptions and US figures showing a decline in crude inventories. 大西洋两岸的石油价格今年以来首...
A continued strengthening in US economic data could clear the way for a second increase in short-term interest rates fairly soon, a senior Federal Reserve policymaker has said, as speculation intensifies about the outcome of this summers rate-setting...
The Chinese Insurance Regulatory Commission and Finance Ministry jointly issued a catastrophe home insurance plan last Monday. 中国保监会与财政部上周一联合印发了居民住宅巨灾保险制度实施方案。 According to the plan, 45...
China is mulling to lower the threshold for cities applying for urban rail transport construction, a move that analysts say may draw more than one trillion yuan investment while bolstering ailing economic growth. 我国正考虑下调建设城市轨道...
