From the AP:For a vivid insight into the clash of old and new in China, follow the bicycle.Morning rush hour in Beijing and Shanghai used to be rivers of cyclists flowing in a majestic hush down broad bike lanes. Today,
Commissioned by the UK's Guardian, photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer spent six months trudging through nearly every province in China producing what has turned out to be a truly stunning series of portraits published in yesterday's Guardian magazine. The
From AFP:A giant panda evacuated after China's devastating earthquake in May gave birth to twins on Sunday, state media reported.Guo Guo, who was relocated from the Wolong Panda Breeding Centre following the earthquake in southwest Sichuan province, gave birth at
At least 18 people have been killed in the rainstorms that have soaked large parts of China since last week. The casualties were reported by local authorities after the rainstorms and flooding killed 252 people across China in June. ...
A 3.6-magnitude earthquake hit Jurong city of east China's Jiangsu province at 6:43 p.m. Sunday, according to the provincial seismological bureau. The epicenter was at 32.2 degrees north latitude and 119.1 degrees east longitude. ...
It's the time for the Dalai Lama to respond with sincerity and prove it by deeds after the Chinese central government had communicated goodwill to him during the meeting with his private representatives, a spokesman of the United Front Work
The Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines has become the first mainland aviation company approved to set up an office in Taipei, handling cross-Strait charter flights services, a company official said Sunday. Cao Jianxiong, general ...
The total assets of overseas-funded banks in the Chinese mainland stood at some 193 billion U.S. dollars by the end of March, up 55 percent year on year, the China Banking Association (CBA) said Sunday. The assets of overseas-funded ...
The first group of 680 tourists from the Chinese mainland have started their sightseeing in Taiwan after taking historic cross-Strait weekend charter flights to arrive in the island Friday. Many of them first visited the Sun Moon La ...
The 4.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted east China's Fujian Province on Saturday resulted no big damage, said local authorities on Sunday. The provincial earthquake bureau dispatched four teams of seismologist to townships and vill ...
Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible or just the New Testament for free during the Olympic Games next month.Tens of thousands of copies of the Bible, the New Testament and booklets with just the four Gospel
The May 12 earthquake forced Guo Guo to leave the Wolong nature reserve but it could not stop her from giving birth to twins in Chengdu.Yesterday, she became the first giant panda to give birth anywhere in the world this
China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has said. The
Ye Zhiping is not the type of man who waits for others to offer him assistance, he just rolls up his sleeves and gets on with it.The headmaster of Sangzao Middle School in Anxian county, Mianyang city, one of the
A debate over the merits of raising awareness of brain death has broken out as China suffers from a dearth of organ donations.About 2 million Chinese need organ transplants each year, but many die waiting as an inadequate total of
Vice-President Xi Jinping yesterday urged the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), the host city of the equestrian events of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, to do all it can to ensure a "safe Olympics for all"."Security is a c
The number of expats in China has soared in the lead-up to the Olympics. But with the Games set to begin a month from tomorrow, the question is: Is it true that what goes up must - or at least,
One more Chinese property was inscribed on the UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday during the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee that is taking place in this eastern Canadian city. The 21 members of the committee agreed to ...
Policies should be devised to help resettle millions of earthquake-hit residents from rural areas to cities, a senior official said yesterday.Creating employment in urban areas is an effective way of successfully relocating rural quake ...
One year after Beijing won the rights to host the Games, organizers launched a contest in a bid to find a special logo for China's largest public event. Seasoned advertising man, Guo Chunning, beat 1,300 other professionals with his ...
