Abstract Over last twenty years, Chinese scholars have paid growing attention to the topics of European social policy and European welfare states. These researches have been motivated less by the learning of the Europe than to learn from Europe for the sake of China’s reform. The intrinsic inward-looking drive on the part of Chinese researche......

Paris - Following a first round of voting Sunday in the French presidential elections, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois Hollande have emerged as the leading candidates who will face off in a decisive second round on May 6.Hollande won the first round with 28.56 percent of the vote, followed by Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) cand......

From Beijing, Iceland's ambassador to China likes to say, "You can be in a steaming spa in Reykjavik in 12 hours!"She probably didn't need to tell China's most famous geologist, Premier Wen Jiabao, about the promise of Iceland's hot rocks before he flew to Reykjavik on Friday. And while the Chinese leader's schedule was probably too full to allow h......

German vehicle parts supplier Brose Group said that China's new regulation governing anti-trap features for car power windows offers an opportunity for the company to further develop in China, which will be its largest single-country market by 2015."China already accounted for 18 percent of our global revenue in 2011. The country will definitely ov......

The United Kingdom is reviewing its visa policies to make it easier for Chinese tourists to travel to the country as part of a worldwide marketing campaign to encourage tourists, business leaders and students to come to Britain."We're looking at our entire visa policy to see whether we can make it easier for people who do want to visit UK as touris......

Chinese culture is taking central stage and market focus at the 2012 London Book Fair, which opens on Monday. The book fair, one of the largest in the world, started its market-focus program in 2004, and since 2008, has partnered with the British Council to concentrate on emerging markets. "I'm looking forward to meeting many of the Chinese authors......

Over the last 35 years, Michael Kahn-Ackermann has witnessed the remarkable changes and strong economic resurgence of China.Now Kahn-Ackermann, has stepped away from a long and illustrious career as the president of the Goethe-Institute China to join the Confucius Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote Chinese language and cultur......

CHENGDU - Direct cargo flights were launched on Tuesday between the capital of the southwestern Sichuan province and France. This is the first cargo air route between a western Chinese province and France.Three cargo flights will operate each week between the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and Paris Vatry Airport, in northeastern France. T......

Business owners have criticized the British government's scrapping of a visa scheme that allows international students to work for two years in the United Kingdom after graduation, saying that it restricts them from filling vacancies that require niche skills.The post-study work visa ended on Friday, after which non-European Union graduates wanting......

China is in talks with the Irish government on bids for infrastructure projects in the debt-stricken European nation, which plans to sell part of its publicly owned assets to pay off loans, said Barry O'Leary, chief executive officer of Investment and Development Agency Ireland."There are enough opportunities for Chinese companies to invest in infr......