France's New Passion: All Things Chinese Teacher Meifen Chen swears it is easy to learn Mandarin, the official language of the Chinese mainland. Maybe she is right, though it is daunting to watch her jot down the characters on a flip chart. One of he...
France, Algeria: Two Lenses on the Past Algeria's war of independence from France has been retold many times - in movies and in history books on both sides of the Mediterranean. Today, the French Army Museum in Paris offers the latest narrative - cas...
DONETSK, Ukraine, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Xabi Alonso's powerful header and penalty kick helped World Cup and Euro champions Spain beat France 2-0 in the Euro 2012 quarterfinals here on Saturday night. In the 19th minute, France's two right-backs were be...
PARIS, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Disgraced Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong's former manager who now coached the RadioShack cycling team, said Friday that he will skip this year's Tour de France. I want to be there, but in the light of recent allegations by...
PARIS, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Europe's leading airline Air France-KLM announced on Thursday its plan to lay off 5,122 employees out of 49,301 staff of Air France by 2013, but not in a compulsory way. With the aim to cut the group's 2-billion-euro net de...
French voters cast ballots Sunday in the first round of parliamentary elections. Polls show that leftist parties will gain the majority of 577 seats in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament. This means that the Socialist President Fran...
PARIS, May 27 (Xinhua) -- France struggled on their first warm-up for Euro 2012 as they came back from two goals down to beat Iceland 3-2 on Sunday at Valenciennes, France. Birkir Bjarnason and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson put the visitors 2-0 ahead in 28th...
New French President Francois Hollande is putting the pieces in place to forge ahead with a new path for the European economic power. Aides announced Wednesday the formation of the new French Cabinet, one day after the Socialist politician was sworn...
France says it is ready to release some of its strategic oil reserves, possibly in a joint effort with the United States and Britain to curb the increase in crude oil prices and cut the cost of gasoline that motorists pay. French Energy Minister Eric...
PARIS, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- French health authorities on Friday urged 30,000 women to remove the local-made breast implant, pledging that relevant expenses would be covered by the state. The health ministry said in a statement that they spot no increa...
