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Winter gives us the opportunity to stay inside and look outside, as we’re not called outdoors to enjoy the warmth and sunshine. Snuggle up in the sofa, put a blanket over you, have a cup of hot cocoa, and enjoy the observations on this precious season…
　　Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and [...]

Mention “made in China”, and what pops up in your mind? The picture may soon change as China is taking action worldwide to getting more consumers to reach for “Made in China” products.
A 30-second commercial rolled out on November 23, 2009 on CNN in the United States, CNN in Asia and CNN Headline News. With [...]

China is aiming to cut its reliance on manufacturing and boost its services trade to facilitate domestic economic restructuring going into the post-crisis world market.
Trade in goods, which mainly generates from labor-intensive manufacturing industries and accounts for about 90 percent of the country’s total trade, has caused an imbalance in trade structure and hurt [...]

China said a recent resolution on the Iran nuclear issue was aimed at early resumption of dialogue and negotiation, and urged the international community to work for this aim.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the remarks as commenting on the resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Nov. 27, which called [...]

A growing number of Americans deem China as the world’s top economic power, revealed a recent opinion poll which also found Americans are adopting isolationist viewpoints in U.S. foreign affairs.
The poll, done by the Pew Research Center, said that Americans are turning away from the world, showing a tendency toward isolationism that has risen [...]

Six people were missing but two were rescued after a floatplane crashed off Canada’s west coast Sunday afternoon.
The crash happened at 4:10 p.m. local time (0010 GMT, Monday) off Saturna Island, a small island between Vancouver Island and the mainland of the western province of British Columbia (BC), when the plane was heading for [...]

The political crisis in Honduras has continued for more than five months since President Manuel Zelaya was ousted on June 28 and forced to flee to Costa Rica in a coup led by Congress leader Roberto Micheletti.
Under the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord reached on Oct. 29, the two sides agreed to form a unity government [...]

Google is to allow its Gears offline utility to languish as it attempts to move the Web forward into HTML 5.0, Google executives said Monday.
According to Linus Upson, the engineering director at Google, Gears’ time has come and gone. The technology will be supported for compatibility’s sake, but not improved upon.
“Yes, we are [...]

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Wednesday warned of unprecedented deterioration looming in refugee camps after the UN Palestinian refugees agency announced severe shortfall in budget.
If the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reduced its services, “this dangerous situation would mean a humanitarian catastrophe inside the Palestinian refugee camps,” said Zakareya al-Agha, refugees’ commissioner of [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday called on business leaders at a jobs forum he hosted at the White House to generate more jobs to tackle the rising unemployment.
“I heard a great deal of challenges this afternoon about — or a great deal this afternoon about the challenges that we’re all facing, for businesses large [...]