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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed on Wednesday the announcement of a planned summit meeting later this month between the leaders of the Democratic People's R...

An Indian filmmaker is remaking “Casablanca,“ swapping the Rick's Cafe of the Oscar-winning classic for a restaurant in south India, and the World War Two backdrop for the ethnic conflict in Sri L...

Nicole KidmanOscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman is to star in a Hollywood remake of Colombian horror film “Al Final Del Espectro,“ it was reported Wednesday.The 40-year-old star of ...

A man passes a billboard in Shanghai. The Chinese advertising market is forecast to grow to 200 billion yuan in 2008 because of the boost from the Olympic Games, from 160 billion yuan last year. The c...

Wang Zhaowen, spokesman for the Bank of China, told Xinhua on Wednesday that news reports chronicling the bank's involvement in the US mortgage crisis contained statement which were both inaccurate an...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland saw its trade with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao continue to rise in the first half of the year, said sources with the Ministry of Commerce (MOC)on Tuesd...

MANILA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Philippine Department of Agriculture(DA) has temporarily banned all imports of domestic and wild birds along with poultry products from Virginia and Nebraska of the United S...

NEW YORK - U.S. consumers this year will spend more of their day surfing the Internet than reading newspapers or going to the movies or listening to recorded music, according a study released on Tuesd...

It’s official now. According to scientists, love really hurts.Researchers at Imperial College London have revealed that the range of physical effects caused by the ups and downs of romance can c...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said Wednesday that he would use his veto power if Democrats-controlled Congress would seek raising taxes or increasing federal spending. ...