雅虎公司将更名Altaba CEO梅耶尔离开董事会

Yahoo Inc said that it would rename itself Altaba Inc and Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer would step down from the board after the closing of its deal with Verizon Communications Inc. 雅虎公司近日表示将更名为Altaba公司，在雅虎与

Moderate drink keeps disease away

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Middle-aged white women drinking alcohol moderately are more likely to stay healthy than nondrinkers, according to a new study from Harvard. The study has followed about 14,000 mostly white women since 1976. As a resul

Hertha Berlin promoted into German first division

BERLIN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Hertha Berlin climb into German Bundesliga, the first division, three days before the end of season 2010/2011 thanks to the winner from striker Adrian Ramos over Duisburg on Monday. Berlin staged a faultless but unspectac

575 bln yuan of central budget goes to social security

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The expenditure in China's central budget on social insurance and job security totaled 575.37 billion yuan (91.62 billion U.S. dollars) in 2012, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Friday. The central government also

Expanded social participation helps battle drug addiction

NANNING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Lu Huizhen, director of Shizishan community in Pingxiang of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has another role that makes her feel a sense of achievement -- leading a team of women to persuade drug users

Greece's Finance Minister Resigns to Lead Socialist Party

Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has resigned, one day after being elected to lead the Socialist party PASOK in the run-up to elections. Venizelos announced his resignation Monday after meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias. Ven

China reaffirms it will stick to socialist path

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Wu Bangguo reaffirmed on Friday that China would unwaveringly keep on the socialist path of political development with Chinese characteristics. We need to thoroughly understand the intrinsic nature

Google introduces new social networking service

SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Google on Tuesday rolled out a new social networking service named Google+, a long awaited move of the Internet search giant to crack the industry's social trend dominated by Facebook. Unlike Facebook, Google said t

Wall Street rallies on positive earnings, home sales

NEW YORK, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street rallied on Thursday on better-than-expected earnings and data on home sales with all major indexes jumping more than 2 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped the 9,000 mark for the first time since

Solar eclipse attracts Chinese gazers,but weather may shadow

CHONGQING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- A total solar eclipse was viewed at 9:15 a.m. in many places along the upper stream of China's longest river of the Yangtze. The moon shadow fully blocked the sun, and gazers could clearly enjoy the aura of solar corona

Djokovic Hopes Run Continues at French Open

The second Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2011, the French Open, begins Sunday in Paris. Much of the attention will be on Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who is a remarkable 37-0 this year and is looking to dethrone defending champion(冠军) and five-tim

Putin Announces Run For President in 2012

Russia's President and Prime Minister have unveiled a plan to switch jobs next year. Ending months of intense speculation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin agreed Saturday that he would run for a third term as President next March. Putin previously serv

Chicken pox forces San Jose out of Spanish Olympic football squad

MADRID, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Athletic Club Bilbao defender, Mikel San Jose has been forced to withdraw from the Spanish football squad for the 2012 Olympic Games because of an attack of chicken pox. The central defender has to leave the Spain training

中国留美学生面临的挑战

The class is entitled Ethics and Public Policy in a Globalized World. It starts with a video projection of a song from the 1972 musical movie Cabaret. Yubing Shi looks amused... but also a little puzzled. The song finishes. The professor explains tha

铁饭碗时代一去不返

The archetypal worker in an advanced economy used to be a man on a production line or a salaryman in a city office a secure, yet repressed, cog in a machine. A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many/I had not thought death had undone so many, wrote

中国资本涌入欧洲尖端技术产业引发担忧

HONG KONG After a customer canceled a large order at the last minute, shares in Aixtron, a German high-tech company, sank fast. 香港一个客户在最后时刻取消一笔大订单后，德国高科技公司爱思强(Aixtron)的股价迅速下滑。

西方大学的三学期制 适合我们吗

You may have already heard about the trimester system in Western universities. 你或许听说过西方大学的三学期学制。 For example, in the UK, an academic year is usually divided into three semesters, each made up of 10 weeks the autumn s

年轻足球运动员梦想赢得世界杯

China now ranks 84th on the world's football list consisting of 209 countries, below teams like Jordan, Montenegro and Gabon. The most urgent goal for football schools around China is to shake off the country's lowly place and move up on the ladder.

我国科学家在根治HIV等感染上获突破

Chinese scientists have defined a subset of a type of virus-specific cells that could pave the way for new ways to treat chronic diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer, Xinhua News Agency reported last Saturday. 据新华社上周六报道，中国科学家

捷克总理提出辞职

PRAGUE, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Czech cabinet led by Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok on Tuesday submitted its resignation to President Milos Zeman after it failed to win a vote of confidence in parliament last Wednesday. Zeman accepted the resignation and