[lui1]

It looks like the links were broken and the structure of the markup changed. So it needed to be redone.

Update for Global News:

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
import re


def check_words(words):
    return lambda x: x and frozenset(words.split()).intersection(x.split())


class GlobalTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'Global Times'
    __author__ = 'Jose Ortiz' # lui1 at mobileread.com
    language = 'en_CN'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    keep_only_tags = [
        { 'class': check_words('article-title article-source row-content') },
    ]

    extra_css = '''
        .article-title {
            font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
            font-weight:bold;font-size:large;
        }

        .article-source, .row-content {
            font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
            font-size:small;
        }
        '''

    def parse_index(self):
        catnames = {}
        catnames["http://www.globaltimes.cn/china/politics/"] = "China Politics"
        catnames["http://www.globaltimes.cn/china/diplomacy/"] = "China Diplomacy"
        catnames["http://www.globaltimes.cn/china/military/"] = "China Military"
        catnames["http://www.globaltimes.cn/business/economy/"] = "China Economy"
        catnames["http://www.globaltimes.cn/world/asia-pacific/"] = "Asia Pacific"
        feeds = []

        for cat in catnames.keys():
            articles = []
            soup = self.index_to_soup(cat)
            for a in soup.findAll('a', attrs={'href': re.compile(r'https?://www.globaltimes.cn/content/[0-9]{4,10}[.]shtml')}):
                url = a['href'].strip()                # Typical url http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/5555555.shtml
                title = self.tag_to_string(a).strip()
                if not title:
                    continue
                myarticle = ({'title': title,
                              'url': url,
                              'description': '',
                              'date': ''})
                self.log("found '%s'" % title)
                articles.append(myarticle)
                self.log("Adding URL %s\n" % url)
            if articles:
                feeds.append((catnames[cat], articles))
        return feeds