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CNews I.T: China's Kingsoft to challenge Microsoft with coming office software BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft, the world's No. 1 software giant, may soon face competition in its profitable office software business as a Chinese firm has plans to promote its own. Kingsoft Co., one of China's leading software companies, said that its new word processing system (WPS) version, co-developed with IBM and Intel, would be introduced into the market in May. As Kingsoft's first cross-platform office application software, said Kingsoft's deputy CEO Ge Ke, the software codenamed " Hurricane" could be run on operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac OS. The company is also planning to start the public testing of its WPS V6, the next generation of WPS, in July. "Our WPS software is very essential to the development of Linux, which has by far lacked a mature commercial office solution," Ge said. As a domestic flagship office software provider, ...

CNews BEIJING: China would work with Pakistan to push forward the bilateral strategic and cooperative partnership, said Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping here on Tuesday. Xi made the remarks in a meeting with General Tariq Majid, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Hailing the relations between China and Pakistan, Xi said the two nations enjoyed profound friendship, which had stood the test of time and international changes. China valued the traditional friendship with Pakistan, and was ready to advance relations with the south Asia country, he noted. Echoing Xi's remarks, Majid said Pakistan attached great importance to the relations with China, and would join in China to promote bilateral exchanges and cooperation. Later this day, Majid also met with the Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie. Liang applauded that the two countries have witnessed satisfactory achievement on military cooperation, in accordance with the sound development of bilateral relations. China ...

CNews  BEIJING: The Beijing Olympics 2008, the biggest show on earth in the real sense of the world, is going to end today. Host China has completed its half-century of the gold medals at the Olympics but the Pakistan contingent could not win any medal at this mega event. The Olympic Games, the first ever to be hosted by the People’s Republic of China, started on Augusts 8 with an spectacular colourful opening ceremony to stir the imgination of viewers world-wide. In between, China displayed its sporting prowess to lead the medal table, another first in the history of the Olympics for the hosts. The scene now shifts from Bird’s Nest, Water Cube and Tiananmen Square to Wembley, Wimbeldon and Trafalgar Square in London which first hosted the Olympics way back in 1908. In all contests held so far, China has obtained fifty gold medals to lead the medals table at the Olympics 2008. China won its 50th gold in light-flyweight category of boxing when Zou Shiming defeated Mongolia's Serdamb...

CNews BEIJING: Pakistan achieved its second victory in the men’s field hockey at the Beijing Olympics 2008 when it defeated South Africa 3-1 on Sunday.The national team began the game with aggression and succeeded in making breakthrough in the ninth minute when Mohammad Zubair netted a goal but Austin Smith of South Africa equaled the score by the end of the first half.However, Pakistan dominated the second half by playing brilliantly as Shakeel Abbasi made goal in the 41st minute to get Pakistan the 2-1 lead which was further consolidated through a goal from Mohammad Saqlain in the 60th minute.Pakistan has now earned six points after this win. It has earlier beat Canada while was beaten by Great Britain and Australia.Now Pakistan will play its last pool match against Holland on August 19.

CNews BEIJING: President Bush on Monday sharply criticized Moscow's harsh military crackdown in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, saying the violence is unacceptable and Russia's response is disproportionate.The United States is waging an all-out campaign to press Russia to halt its retaliation against Georgia for trying to take control of the breakaway province of South Ossetia.Bush, in an interview said, "I've expressed my grave concern about the disproportionate response of Russia and that we strongly condemn the bombing outside of South Ossetia."On Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States."The crisis over South Ossetia appeared to ebb as Georgian troops began retreating and honoring a cease-fire, a claim Russia disputed. U.S. officials said Moscow was only broadening its retaliation against Georgia fo...

Special report: Strong Earthquake Jolts SW China CNews BEIJING:-- News media around the world have lauded the Chinese government's quick reaction to the deadly earthquake that hit China's southwestern Sichuan province on Monday afternoon. Syria's state news agency and TV station have made an extensive coverage on the quake, saying the Chinese government has set disaster relief work its top priority. The U.S. newspaper Christian Science Monitor has also spoke highly of the Chinese government's "efficient disaster relief" work. "They are very good at putting together a disaster relief plan rather quickly," the report quoted Roger Musson, a seismologist at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, as saying. It listed a series of measures China has taken as "vast improvements in disaster relief" such as adopting a special law onemergency management last year, specifying the government's responsibilities and setting up eme...

CNews BEIJING: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, less than 100 km (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Chengdu, the U.S.Geological Survey said on its Web site. The tremor, centered 92 km northwest of Chengdu, was felt as far away as Beijing and Shanghai, where office buildings swayed with the impact.