BRASILIA, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Central Bank on Wednesday raised its benchmark Selic interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 15 percent annually, marking the seventh consecutive increase ...

NANJING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The final pre-opening safety checks have begun on the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, the world's longest-span cable-stayed bridge, as engineers launched a high-stakes week ...