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The rare US praise of China’s efforts to combat climate change suggests the US may be taking a positive approach to the matter, experts said yesterday. US special envoy on climate change Todd St... Read More

A second group of Chinese navy escort ships will set sail for the Gulf of Aden Thursday to replace a flotilla sent earlier to guard against pirates. 2nd navy fleet to sail for Somali waters “Hai... Read More

Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Ltd., under its corporate social responsibility program, funded Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) a 3 million U.S. dollars wireless communicat... Read More

China has always worked together with the international community to safeguard global economic and financial stability ever since the outbreak of global financial crisis. As a very responsible big nat... Read More

Sinopec Corp, the country’s largest oil refiner, is considering building four refined oil stockpile bases, the company’s president said on Monday. The company may also take charge of const... Read More

The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has signed an agreement to buy carbon credits from Shenhua Group, China’s largest coal miner, under the clean development mechanism (CDM), a statement on the St... Read More

In the old days, pollution specialists for Taizhou’s Environmental Protection Bureau monitored effluent and emission sources by physically traveling across this Zhejiang Province city, from one site... Read More

East Asia does not have a unified multilateral security regime like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and it will unlikely see such a system in the near future. The existing sec... Read More

In a warm-up for the G20 summit this week in London, China’s top financial officials called for reform of global financial monitoring system, the establishment of a super-sovereign reserve curre... Read More

Chinese cities and towns nationwide have already constructed a total of 2.85 billion square meters of energy-saving buildings, accounting for 16.1 percent of existing construction space. According to ... Read More

Indonesia may carry out the first delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Tangguh project in Papua to China’s Fujian province in June, Indonesia’s oil watchdog BP Migas said here Mond... Read More

A senior UN official said that while there are many problems with the management of global water resources, they are not insurmountable and China can act as a role model in the field. Olcay Unver, coo... Read More

Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd. (Chalco), reported a 99.9 percent plunge in full-year net profit to 9.2 million yuan (US$1.35 million) in 2008, due to product price fluctuations on the internationa... Read More