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Legend Buys 49% Stake Held by Time Warner
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| Legend Group Ltd, China's largest computer maker, said Wednesday that it has bought a 49 percent stake held by Time Warner, formerly AOL Time Warner Inc, in their Internet joint venture. The purchase means the company has ended its partnership with the world's leading media firm. |
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Anti-SARS Measures Stepped Up for Peak Travel
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| Restless efforts are being made in China to minimize the effect brought by the newly confirmed SARS case in Guangzhou for a safe and sound Spring Festival, which officially begins on January 22. |
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HK Outlines Strategy for Economic Revival, Governance Improvement
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| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa delivered his Policy Address for 2004 on Jan. 7, in which he highlighted how Hong Kong can seize new opportunities to build on the current economic recovery, meet the challenges of globalization and improve governance. |
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Shenzhen to Become China's First City Without Rural Areas
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| Recently, 152,000 farmers in Shenzhen's two disctricts bid farewell to rural lives after formally joining in the social security system covering the whole city. |
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Shrimp Producers to Fight US Anti-dumping Suit
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| More than 20 Chinese shrimp producers have united to form an alliance to fight anti-dumping charges in the United States. The US Southern Shrimp Alliance claimed six countries including China had dumped shrimp on the US market at below cost prices and filed a suit against them Wednesday. |
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Migrants May Register for Equal Rights
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| The government will reform its household registration system soon, enabling migrants residing in small and medium-sized cities to become local residents. The move is to help China's huge number of farmers-turned-workers settle down in urban areas. |
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China Still a Safe Place to Travel: WHO
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| The World Health Organization (WHO) said in Beijing Monday that China is still a safe place to travel even though the suspected case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong was finally confirmed as diagnosed one. "One SARS case in China is not an immediate public-health threat and there was no evidence of a spread of infection from the SARS patient to date," said WHO representative in China Henk Bekedam. |
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Curing Capital's Congestion by 2008
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| Traffic in Beijing is expected to improve so much that by 2008, it will take less than half an hour for Olympic athletes to travel from the Olympic Village to every venue in the city, vowed Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Communications Commission. |
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'Opening Up' for News, Too
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| The State Council Information Office (SCIO) will make fresh moves this year to set up a three-tier government news-release system, according to Minister Zhao Qizheng. The three-tier system will feature spokespersons for the State Council, all central government ministries and provincial-level governments. |
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US Mars Rover Lands Safely
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| The exploration of Mars entered a new phase as Spirit, the first of US twin rovers, landed on the Red Planet later Saturday. The rover can work as a robotic field geologist and can see sharper images, explore farther and examine rocks better than anything that's ever landed on Mars. |
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