英闻天下——340 Huawei, ZTE Launch New Products at WMC

Huawei has unveiled its newest smartphone at this year's World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The Ascend P2 boasts a connection speed of 150 megabytes per second, which is said to be the fastest on the market. The company sold 32 million smartp

英闻天下——341 19 Killed, 20 Injured in India Fire

Officials in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata are saying the death toll from the fire that burnt down an illegal 6 storey market building with just 1 exit point could still rise. At least 19 people are said to have died so far in the early morning

英闻天下——352 China to Push Forward Gov't Reform to Decentralize Administration

The communique issued following the plenary session says the latest round of government reform is designed to try to build a simpler and decentralized administration. The communique says the CPC Central Committee is committed to improving the cleanne

英闻天下——351 Boeing, Battery Maker at Odds over 787 Fix

After proposing a permanent fix for its Dreamliner 787 to the Federal Aviation Association last Friday, Boeing has met with its Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa on how to get the Dreamliners back in the air. Boeing's said to be proposing a stronger co

英闻天下——349 China Refutes Japan's Hyping on Radar Targeting

The Chinese government is accusing Japan of falsely saying Chinese warships targeted fire-control radars at their vessels in the East China Sea. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying says moves like these are unhelpful. The Japanese side has bee

英闻天下——348 US Gov't Spending Cuts Loom This Friday

From tomorrow the U.S-government is going to be forced to begin slashing some 85-billion dollars from its federal budget, if a deal to avoid the sequestration can't be found. US-President Barack Obama has been making a series of public appearances, w

英闻天下——347 Journey to Mars

American Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito has unveiled plans to send a man and a woman around Mars in January 2018. The couple will embark on the 500-day journey which zooms past Mars and swings back to Earth as part of a historic Mission for Am

英闻天下——346 China to Improve Wellbeing for the Elderly

A report on the elderly here in China is suggesting the government should do more to help improve the wellbeing of the country's rapidly growing aging population. The China Research Center on Aging has stressed the need to increase government spendin

英闻天下——345 US Senate Considers Banning Assault Weapons

The United States Senate is considering a ban on military-style assault weapons. The proposal comes in the wake the Newtown, Connecticut shooting where 20 children and 6 adults were killed. Gun-control efforts currently face an uphill battle against

英闻天下——344 South Africa Rape Triggers Outrage

The gruesome gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl in South Africa has triggered unprecedented uproar against long-existing sexual violence in the country. It has been reported 17-year-old Anene Booysen was badly mutilated and left for dead near Cap

英闻天下——343 France Calls for UN to Send a Force in Mali

France has called on the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to take over the French military mission. French ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud made the request during a Security Council meeting. We are asking to the Secretary-General to make

英闻天下——350 Property Tax, Land Tipped to Curb Home Prices

The State Council's recent adjustment policies on the Chinese property market, dubbed 'The 5 new regulations' is said to have fueled the land supply and trial property tax expansion to a new level. Analysts say they're expecting detailed measures and

英闻天下——330 A Second "Tomb Flattening Movement" in Henan?

The local government in Central China's Zhoukou city forcibly flattened over two million rural tombs over the last year in order to increase arable land. By the end of this Spring Festival, more than half of those flattened tombs were restored by loc

英闻天下——336 Latvian Student in Lanzhou

The place to meet Jana Danica is at the Lanzhou University library. Jana has been studying Chinese for 6 and half years, and earned a bachelor's degree in sinology. For the last 2 and half years she's been working on an environmental law program taug

英闻天下——335 Political Session Media Center Starts Operation

The media center of China's upcoming two political sessions has now gone into operation. The first Sessions of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, or the CPPCC and the 12th National People's Congress, or the NPC are set to op

英闻天下——334 CNOOC Closes Acquisition of Canada's Nexen

Chinese oil giant CNOOC have officially wrapped up the 15 billion US dollar takeover of Canadian oil and gas firm Nexen. This comes more than 7-months after the takeover was first announced. Nexen shareholders will receive 27.5 dollars per share in c

英闻天下——333 Minister Interprets China's Healthcare Reform

China's Health Minister, Chen Zhu, has been praising the country's medical reform in the past years, but also says there are more challenges and objectives to be met in the following years. CRI's Alex Blucher brings more details. A nurse takes care o

英闻天下——332 Is Early Warning Earthquake System Effective?

China is frequently hit by earthquake. Now it's planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system within five years to reduce casualties and economic losses. An official from the administration said while the system would not be a

英闻天下——331 China's Unbalanced Sex Ratio and its Ripple Effect

China's sex ratio is quite worrying nowadays. According to census data, China's sex ratio at birth was 108 males to every 100 females in the early 1980s, only slightly above the natural rate of 103 to 107. In 2000 the ratio was 116.9 males to 100 fem

英闻天下——337 Lanzhou Guzi

Dating back as far as the early Qing Dynasty, Lanzhou Guzi, the local ballad of Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China's Gansu province, has been passed on from mouth to mouth for about 400 years. Going through ups and downs, this art form has survi