China's central bank governor stresses inflation control BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank governor has urged fending off inflationary risks amid worldwide efforts to shore up the sluggish global economy by easing monetary policies. Z...
The governor of Pakistan's Punjab Province has been assassinated, allegedly by one of his security guards in Islamabad. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik says the slain governor, Salman Taseer, was returning to his car after visiting a shoppin...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California's 39th governor, taking over from Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger who left the office with a huge deficit(赤字) for the golden state. The year ahead will de...
This week, the United States Census Bureau released its official count of the nations population. It said the population, as of April first, was three hundred eight million, seven hundred forty-five thousand, five hundred thirty-eight. The population...
After 19 years of experimenting - and some help from his local government - a Kurdish man has realized his childhood dream. Nareeman Anwar Saleh has flown his home-built airplane over his home town of Irbil. On a dusty, windswept runway, a small yell...
By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 10 January 2007 watch Health Reform report The United States is widely acknowledged to have one of the best medical care systems in the world. But many Americans cannot afford it. The U.S. Census Bureau says that so...
By Noel King Khartoum 09 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, visited Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday in an attempt to get holdout Darfur rebel groups to agree to a 60-day ceasefire with the Sudanese governmen...
By Noel King Khartoum 08 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, met in Khartoum with Sudan's president to press him to allow deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region. Noel King in Khartoum...
By Jim Malone Washington 30 November 2006 Iowa's Democratic governor, Tom Vilsack, officially became the first presidential candidate for 2008 on Thursday. Several other potential candidates have either taken themselves out of the running for the Wh...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 April 2006 Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius A U.S. governor who has forged a coalition between Republicans and Democrats says it is time to end the partisan bickerin...