英闻天下——427 Syria's Opposition Elects PM of Interim Gov't

Syria's opposition coalition has elected Ghassan Hitto to head an interim government to administer the areas that rebel forces have seized from the government. Hitto, an American-educated IT manager and Islamic activist, received 35 votes from 48 bal

英闻天下——426 Xi: BRICS Cooperation Benefits World Economy

Chinese President Xi Jinping says cooperation among BRICS countries is conducive to a more balanced world economy and the improvement of global economic governance. He made the remarks in an interview ahead of the fifth BRICS summit scheduled for lat

英闻天下——425 Fitch Puts Cypriot Banks on Negative Watch

Global ratings agency Fitch has put Cypriot banks on negative watch over the pending vote about the controversial levy on the country's bank depositors. The Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank have all been included in that rating.

英闻天下——423 UN Post-2015 Goals to Focus on Sustainability

The current UN under-secretary general for Economic and Social affairs has revealed the UN is working on a new set of development plans once the current window for the Millennium Development Goals is reached in 2015. CRI's Hong Kong correspondent Xu

英闻天下——422 Team Clears Mines on Falkland Islands

A group of demining specialists from Zimbabwe are working to remove landmines from the Falkland Islands almost 31-years after the conflict with Argentina. 20-thousand landmines were left behind after Britain and Argentina fought a war over the island

英闻天下——421 Netanyahu Talks Peace with Palestinians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his new government is ready to make a historic compromise by meeting with Palestinians for peace talks. Netanyahu says he hopes to renew peace talks, after little progress has been made during his past f

英闻天下——405 NPC Deputies Improving China's Legal System

Lawmakers at this year's session of the National People's Congress have submitted about 400 motions. CRI's Zhang Ru takes a closer look on how their motions and suggestions will contribute to China's legal system. NPC deputy Pang Lijuan is an expert

英闻天下——412 Long Road ahead for New Energy Cars

Worsening air pollution in major Chinese cities has overshadowed the annual session of China's national lawmakers. Pollution control once again became one of the heated topics for panel discussion among the deputies of the National People's Congress

英闻天下——411 Syrians Mark Second Anniversary of Unrest

Syrians are marking the second anniversary of the start of the civil war in the country. The two-year-long conflict has cost almost 70-thousand lives and reportedly forced a million to flee the country. The anniversary comes at the time when arming t

英闻天下——410 Alternative Energy to Improve China's Air Quality

China's energy production relies heavily on coal-fired power stations. As the world's highest emitter of greenhouse gasses, China consumed more than 400 million tones of coal last year. As many parts of China have been shrouded in a gray haze over th

英闻天下——409 Boeing: Dreamliner to Fly Again in Weeks

Aircraft maker Boeing says commercial flights of the grounded 787 Dreamliner jets could resume within weeks. We are going to be dependent upon, as we move through the certification process, to determine when we actually get back in the air in terms o

英闻天下——408 UN: Disaster Losses Hit $138 Billion in 2012

The United Nations say global losses from natural disasters in the past year hit 138-billion US dollars. It is reported one hundred million people were affected in over three hundred natural disasters in 2012. Hurricane Sandy, cold snaps in Europe, a

英闻天下——407 Syrians Mark Second Anniversary of Unrest

Syrians are marking the second anniversary of the start of the civil war in the country. The two-year-long conflict has cost almost 70-thousand lives and reportedly forced a million to flee the country. The anniversary comes at the time when arming t

英闻天下——406 Infrastructure Construction under Way in Sansha

China's deep-sea economy is set to take a huge step forward as basic infrastructure construction gets under way in Sansha, the country's youngest city at its southernmost point. He Fei has the details. Located on Yongxing Island in the South China Se

英闻天下——404 High Expectations for New Premier Li Keqiang

Li Keqiang has been endorsed as Chinese premier at the ongoing parliamentary session with nearly three-thousand deputies to the National people's Congress voting to approve his nomination. Li was nominated by newly elected President Xi Jinping Xi Jin

英闻天下——403 Xi Jinping Elected Chinese President

Xi Jinping has been elected the Chinese president at the country's ongoing parliamentary session. Now I announce that Xi Jinping has been elected president of the People's Republic of China. Xi Jinping has also been elected as the chairman of the cou

英闻天下——402 NPC Adopts Cabinet Reshuffle Plan

The National People's Congress - that's the Chinese parliament, has adopted a cabinet reshuffle plan at a plenary meeting in Beijing to improve overall efficiency. The endorsement of the plan will bring down the number of ministries under the State C

英闻天下——401 Audio of Bradley Manning's Statement Leaked

The Freedom of the Press Foundation has posted the 68-minute recording of Bradley Manning's voice on its website. The audio excerpt from his testimony features Manning discussing his motivations behind releasing the cables and logs to WikiLeaks. I be

英闻天下——400 Calls for Solutions to Address Income Gap

The growing income gap has been acknowledged of having the tendency to trigger social unrest and hamper economic restructuring at the current meeting of China's top legislature. Chi Fulin, president of China Institute of Development and Reform, says

英闻天下——399 Chinese Microblogs, Effective Means of Anticorruption

China's growing number of microbloggers who expose power-abusing officials are becoming a force to be reckoned with. Public voices are getting louder in the age of the microblog. Independent journalist Ji Xuguang is credited with bringing down Lei Zh