Hong Kong Disneyland has, for the first time since it opened over a decade ago, has been forced to lay off employees. Around 100 back-office staffers, said to be mostly restaurant and hotel management, as well as security, have reportedly been handed...
China's consumer prices grew 2.3% in March from one year earlier, the same as in February, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics Monday. The consumer price index (CPI) shrank 0.4% in March from February. 国家统计局周一发...
Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors took their last shot at Michael Jordan and history and they swished it -- for 73. 史蒂芬库里和他的金州勇士队终于翻越了迈克尔乔丹和历史，他们今天刷新了纪录，73胜。 Down...
Speaking about how he'll feel during his last game, Kobe Bryant says he is happy with everything. Tough to say. We'll see Wednesday. So far I've been pretty cool about everything. I'm very thankful about everything and very happy about everything. It...
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday called for countries to prepare fiscal policies and work together to counter worsening global fiscal positions. Fiscal positions have worsened significantly since the...
What makes a good UN secretary general, a secretary or a general? That is the age-old question. Some diplomats and observers, including Britain's UN ambassador Matthew Rycroft, believe the world body needs someone with the qualities of a military com...
After several years of low prices, the price of pork rose this year to a new historical peak. 经历了数年的价格低迷后，今年猪肉价格上涨，达到一个新的历史高峰。 Reviewing the fluctuating pork prices in China, there is an...
In 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded, only 117,000 students were attending colleges or universities. But the number soared to 37 million in 2015 - the world's largest student population. 1949年中华人民共和国成立的时候，...
WASHINGTON, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday lowered its forecast for global growth in 2016 to 3.2 percent, saying that the global economy grows at a sluggish pace that leaves the world economy more exposed to ris...
The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, has projected economic outlook for 2016 and 2017 at 3.2% and 3.5 % respectively. Maurice Obstfeld is the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department of IMF. Global growth continues but at an increa...
It is the first time China has revealed a specific timetable for the country's football industry development. Published by the country's top economic planner on Monday, the plan will be carried out in three stages, aiming to make China a first-class...
I was fortunate to witness the birth of the world wide web up close. Initially, there were only pages of text connected by hyperlinks, but no people. So I formed one of the first internet start-ups, Ubique, with the mission of adding people to the we...
Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer By Tom Lean Bloomsbury/Sigma ￡16.99 《电子梦：20世纪80年代英国人如何迷上计算机》(Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer)，汤姆?利恩...
Volvo is aiming to put up to 100 self-driving cars on the roads in China in the hope that testing them on the countrys notoriously congested, hazardous roads will enable the carmaker to pull ahead in the race to develop autonomous vehicle technologie...
David Cameron last night bowed to a week of political pressure and disclosed that he had made money from an offshore fund. 英国首相戴维?卡梅伦(David Cameron)昨晚迫于持续一周的政治压力，公开披露自己从一只离岸基金中赚...
