KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Militants in Sudan who kidnapped nine Chinese workers this month have killed five of the captives, the Chinese embassy in Khartoum said.
BEIJING, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The first nine months of 2008 saw the creation of 9.36 million jobs in China, the human resources and social security ministry said Monday.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Nine Chinese workers were kidnapped Sunday in Sudanese oil fields near Darfur, the Chinese Embassy in Sudan reported.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Sudanese forces have shot and killed six of the kidnappers who abducted a group of European tourists in Egypt last week, officials said.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi officials say they have signed a $3 billion deal with China's national oil company to develop an area in the southern part of the Middle East nation.
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- In response to criticism by U.S. President George Bush, China has urged the United States to discuss differing viewpoints on human rights and religious issues.
MOSCOW, July 2 (UPI) -- A Russian helicopter transporting oil workers to a drilling platform crashed in West Siberia Wednesday, killing at least nine people.
NEW DELHI, May 14 (UPI) -- India's Finance Ministry has rejected a plan to issue oil bonds to help state-run oil marketing companies reeling from massive losses.
WASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's Kurdish region leader said talks in Baghdad on key controversial issues, including the oil law, showed "positive … cooperation and progress."
BEIJING, April 17 (UPI) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday CNN hasn't done enough to apologize for one of its commentator's remarks criticizing China.
BEIJING, April 16 (UPI) -- Top Chinese oil companies have qualified for Iraq's oil contract licensing round.
NEW DELHI, April 7 (UPI) -- India's ONGC Videsh Ltd. plans to invest $450 million in Venezuelan oil fields, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry said Monday.
SANAA, Yemen, March 7 (UPI) -- Yemen has called for an increase in oil production to 500,000 barrels per day by 2010, the Yemen Observer reported.
BEIJING, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- China, responding to Steven Spielberg's resignation as adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games, has defended its human rights record.
BEIJING, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Thursday dismissed recent U.S. charges of spying as groundless, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
