英国政府力推电动汽车

By announcing a 57-million US dollar extension of its current programme, the UK is signaling that it wants to make electric cars a mainstream option for car buyers. The money will go towards four areas, with proposals like building street lights that

极简手机 未来新潮流

Joe Hollier, a 25-year-old former skater turned technology entrepreneur, describes the moment of transcendental calm when he gave up his smartphone. Mr Hollier had started going light, leaving behind his high tech pocket companion and disconnecting f

中国反对美国海军巡逻南海

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it opposed action by other countries under the pretext of freedom of navigation that undermined its sovereignty after a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group began patrols in the contested South China Sea. 北京（

欧盟减少使用胶袋

欧盟减少使用胶袋 BRUSSELS, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) on Tuesday moved a step closer to its aim of an 80 percent reduction in the use of lightweight plastic bags in Europe. The European Parliament passed an European Commissi

英国自古与欧洲道不同不相谋

If you walk down Piccadilly in London you will see one European flag on the Maltese High Commission whereas on the continent it seems to be everywhere: at prime ministerial press conferences, on public buildings and on car number plates. 沿着伦敦皮

调查显示 毕业生入行偏好逐渐转变

Preferences of Chinese college graduates for employment have been changing in recent years as the country undergoes transformations in its economic and industrial structure, a recent survey found. 近日一份调查发现，随着我国经济产业结构

5岁女儿筹款带绝症爸爸游玩迪士尼

Damian Myles, 42, has been given just months to live, and fundraisers have dug deep to grant his daughter Ruby her wish of taking him to Disneyland Paris. 英国绍斯波特市42岁的戴米恩迈尔斯身患癌症，生命只剩下不到几个月的时

北京地铁调价方案出炉

The authorities in Beijing have decided to open a public hearing later this month for the subway price adjustment. Authorities have discussed plans to implement a metered option for public transportation. This means Beijing will end the era of flat r

中国首条无人驾驶地铁燕房线开启动车调试

China's first fully-automatic subway, Yanfang Line linking Hebei's Yanjiao and Fangshan district in Beijing, will go on trial in December and is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2017. 中国的第一条全自动无人驾驶地铁线--连

深圳地铁11号线设商务舱 与普通舱对比鲜明

A trial run of a service designed to offer more comfortable subway travel has instead sparked massive controversies in the southern Chinese metropolis Shenzhen, with some blaming it for creating an artificial divide among passengers. 为了给乘客提

北京首条无人驾驶地铁线路燕房线于日前'试跑'

The Yanfang line, Beijing's first driverless subway line connecting the city's southwest suburbs to its central urban district started its first pilot run last Wednesday morning. 上周三早上，连接西南郊区和中心市区的燕房线--北京第

苹果公司业绩下滑冲击众多在华供应商

Apple Inc's major Chinese suppliers saw their revenues hit hard in the first quarter, in the wake of the technology giant's latest quarterly earnings which showed a 13% drop in revenue. 美国科技巨头苹果公司最新季度营收下跌13%之后，

US, European Stocks Plunge, Borrowing Costs Rise

Major U.S. and European stock exchanges plunged Wednesday and Italy's borrowing costs jumped, as the long shadow of the continent's debt crisis consumed the Greek and Italian governments. Key stock markets in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt all

Russia launches joint Mars probe

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe and China's Yinghuo-1 satellite were launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 00:16 am Moscow time Wednesday (2016 GMT Tuesday). The main aim of

UCI disbands independent commission

BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced its disbanding of the Independent Commission citing lack of coorperation from fellow anti-doping angencies. UCI president Pat McQuaid said in a statement Tuesday that th

NASA Announces Next Generation Spacecraft

NASA has unveiled plans for its next-generation, post-Shuttle spacecraft to carry humans into earth orbit and beyond. The state-of-the-art, four-astronaut capsule, called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or MPCV, builds on earlier designs for the Orion

中国学生梦寐以求的公司 阿里巴巴上榜

Alibaba, Bank of China and Huawei -- these are the dream employers for Chinese students, according to a new survey。 据一份新调查显示，阿里巴巴[]、中国银行和华为，是中国学生梦寐以求的公司。 The survey of more than

What's Wrong with Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse?

BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Rumors have been running rampant that Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse, one of the hottest Chinese celebrity couples, are nearing a divorce. Local newspapers and Websites have been carrying such headlines as Nicholas Tse

9/11 Suspects Could Face Death Penalty

The cases of the five suspected al-Qaida militants believed to have planned the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States have been formally referred to a military tribunal. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid She

One in five Americans has hearing loss: study

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe that it may make communication difficult, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins University researchers and published Monday in the A