WASHINGTON -- The Chinese Embassy is encouraging Americans and others to send cash and supplies to victims of this week's powerful earthquake. But the embassy says it doesn't currently need any U.S. disaster relief teams. Embassy spokesman Wang Baodong said Friday that China has accepted disaster...
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Forex: The currency market mostly tracked rising oil prices during the Asian session, but moves were limited in quiet conditions and an empty economic calendar. The USD continues to consolidate its recent gains, but it seems...
Primary and middle school students in some areas affected by the May 12 earthquake in China's southwestern Sichuan Province marked the start of their new semester on Wednesday. Thousands of pupils in Beichuan and Anxian, the...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province hopes to build its first nuclear power plant within as little as five years, but has chosen a site it says is geologically sound, state media said on Wednesday.
Hong Kong - Relief supplies intended for the victims of May's devastating Sichuan earthquake were left sitting at Hong Kong's port in a bureaucratic wrangle with Chinese authorities, a media report said Wednesday. The aid,...