We simply love our 'chai' The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetWe simply love our 'chai' (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) | Even as talks are on to make tea as India's national drink, the humble 'chai' has come a long way | There have been talks to make tea as India's National Drink. Tea for years holds a special place in Indian househ...
HK stocks end 0.31 pct lower Xinhua | HONG KONG, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks fell 58.90 points, or 0.31 percent, to close at 19,200.93 on Thursday. | The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 19,452.30 and 19,139.73. Turnover totaled 60.26 billion HK dollars (about 7.76 billion U.S. dollars), falling from Wednesday's 65.78 ...
Officers hold slogan placards for urban management China Daily Urban management officers (called Chengguan in Chinese) hold placards in front of street vendors, who occupy a lane in a road, trying to persuade the vendors and their customers to move away from a street in Wuhan city, capital of Central China's Hub...
Chinese 3G users top 150 MILLION but most still on 2G The Register | China may boast staggeringly large internet and mobile phone user numbers but the latest government figures show that the quality and speed of the services most are receiving still leave a lot to be desired. | Ministry of Industry and Information T...
China morning round-up: Captured fishermen BBC News Newspapers across China cover the detention of three Chinese fishing boats by unidentified North Koreans. | Regional papers such as the Shanghai Daily and Beijing Times report the first public comments from the foreign ministry over the incident, urg...
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Oil down to near $94 on China, Europe concerns STL Today | Oil prices dropped to near $94 a barrel Monday due to concerns that China's economy, the world's second-largest, is slowing faster than expected as well as speculation that Greec...
Dalai Lama silent on monk self-immolations CNN | By Richard Allen Greene | LONDON (CNN) – The Dalai Lama refused to answer a question Monday about whether Tibetan monks should stop setting themselves on fire to protest Ch...
Gold hits 5-week low, attracts physical buying The Times Of India Tweet | MUMBAI: Gold futures extended losses on Monday afternoon to their lowest level in five weeks, attracting some deals from physical players, though a weaker rupee weighed on ...
Learning by nothing China Daily Ganyu County Experimental Primary School in East China's Jiangsu province blindfolds pupils to let them understand the difficulties in the lives of visually impaired people on Thursday. Photo by Si Wei/For China Daily | ...
Man becomes dad again at age 75 China Daily A 75-year-old father, who only gave his surname as Shi, holds his newborn daughter with his son, aged 3, while his wife, 42, lies in bed at a hospital in Chongqing on Tuesday. The infant is the couple's third child and the man's fourth. His first chi...
Asia stocks rise after Greece sets election date Springfield News-Sun | BANGKOK — Asian stocks were mostly higher Thursday as markets adjusted to Greece's possible exit from the euro common currency and traders hunted for bargains after sharp selling in recent days. | Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 0.6 percent to 8,849.38 after the country posted better-than-expected growth figures for the first quarter. Hong Kong'...
Chinese in bold call for official's removal Al Jazeera | A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of Beijing's leadership transition. | Security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of China's top nine rulers, is viewed as a hardliner and is linked to Bo Xilai, the charismatic party leader who...
