BRUSSELS - The European Union is set to extend import duties on Chinese-made bicycles and parts until 2014, according to a document seen by Reuters, in a move that may anger Chinese exporters and worsen EU-China trade ties. EU trade officials proposed a three-year extension to the duties, less than the five years requested by European producers jus......

BRUSSELS - Premier Wen Jiabao's European tour will play an important role in building trust in the continent toward China, said a European lawmaker. Csaba Tabajdi, a member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, said Wen's visit will strengthen relations between China and Europe."This way Europeans will gain confidence and tr......

STOCKHOLM - European Union and China need each other, said Klas Molin, Head of Asian Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden on Tuesday at a seminar organized by China Alliance in Stockholm."China means a lot more to us when we studied the 12th five year plan of China. It shows that EU is very much in Beijing's mind," Molin said at the beginnin......

BEIJING - A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) left here Sunday for goodwill visits to Belarus, Bulgaria and Hungary.The delegation, headed by Hu Chunhua, the Party chief of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, pays the visits at the invitation of the presidential office of Belarus, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria P......

Normally, the visit of Premier Wen Jiabao to Europe would catch the headlines. But as Wen Jiabao starts his visit to Hungary, the United Kingdom and Germany on Friday, all eyes will be focused on Europe's seemingly never-ending euro crisis. European leaders are holding a meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, and the debt crisis is the top ite......

LONDON - While national leaders usually kick off their visits to the UK in the capital city, Premier Wen Jiabao decided to start his in Birmingham, instead of London.In addition to seeing Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday, the birthplace of the famed writer William Shakespeare, Wen spent his time in the Birmingham area visiting the Chinese-owned MG Mot......

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with students of the Eotvos Lorand University in downtown Budapest, shortly after his arrival at the capital Friday. [Photo/Xinhua]BUDAPEST - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday that the China-Hungary friendship and cooperation rely, after all, on the younger generation.Wen made these impromptu remarks at ......

BEIJING - China and Britain are likely to sign eight or nine MOUs (Memorandum of Understanding) on development and cooperation across a broad range of areas during Premier Wen Jiabao's upcoming visit to Britain, a British diplomat said in Beijing Thursday.Dan Chugg, the political counsellor of the British Embassy in Beijing, said the MOUs will like......

BEIJING - China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday it appreciated the European Union ending an investigation into Chinese wireless wide area networking (WWAN) modems.The decision, which was announced by the European Commission Thursday, sent positive signals and will boost the stable development of China-EU trade relations, said a statement on th......

MADRID - China and Spain will ink $7.5 billion worth of governmental agreements and commercial contracts, visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday at a breakfast meeting of Chinese and Spanish businesspersons.Li said China-Spain ties have stood the test of time since the two countries forged diplomatic relations decades ago. Facing v......