Reeling from one of the worst droughts in a century, Gao Dekun and his wife have nothing left to harvest from their farmland in the hills of Southwest China\’s Yunnan province.
Gao, 48, a resident of Shiyang village in Zhangyi county, is now busy preparing a rice paddy to cultivate seedlings in order to ensure his [...]
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Hong Kong Post announced Monday that postal remittance service to Canada will cease with effect from April 1.
A spokesperson of the Hong Kong Post told Xinhua that the cessation, which is made in accordance with a request by the Canada Post, will last unless there is new arrangement by the Canadian side.
Such service to other [...]
Chinese Minister of Education Yuan Guiren on Monday called for concerted efforts to ensure safety in primary and high schools, after Tuesday\’s school knife attack that left eight children dead and shocked the country.
"There is no education if we cannot protect the lives of students," Yuan said at an event in Beijing to mark a [...]
Two miners were rescued alive Tuesday morning after being trapped for eight days since March 22 in a flooded coal mine in central China\’s Henan Province, local authorities said.
Source: Xinhua
After a series of blasts in Moscow\’s subway, Beijing will comprehensively strengthen patrols on rail transit stations and prioritize the deployment of its patrol personnel at subway entrances, halls and security checkpoints in order to improve the subway security through cooperation with Beijing Subway Company, announced the Public Transportation Security Department under the Beijing Public [...]
Members of the crew of the flight from Taiyuan to Taiwan pose for a group photo before leaving for Taiwan at Taiyuan Wusu Airport in Taiyuan, north China\’s Shanxi Province, on Feb. 10, 2010. The first direct flight from Taiyuan to Taiwan, carrying 130 tourists, took off in Taiyuan on Wednesday morning. Taiyuan, Changchun, Nanning [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the Nuclear Security Summit on April 12-13 in Washington, and the second summit of BRIC nations — Brazil, Russia, India and China — in Brasilia on April 14-17, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday.
It will be the beginning of China\’s new round of summit diplomacy. It is widely [...]
With China\’s traditional holiday for honoring the dead falling on Monday, throngs of people jostle along the 2-km road in Liudaokou village, Tianjin Municipality, where more than 100 wholesale funeral supply shops compete for business.
"This urn is 170 yuan (24.9 U.S. dollars) wholesale, 1,000 yuan retail here. A retailer can sell it for 5,000 yuan [...]
All the crew members are safe after a Chinese coal ship ran aground off the eastern coast of Australia on Saturday, said Chinese Consul-general in Brisbane Ren Gongping on Sunday.
Ren told Xinhua that the 230-meter-long bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1 ran aground about 70 km east of Great Keppel Island in Queensland State shortly [...]
Five people died and another was injured when a truck overturned and crushed a car in southwest China\’s Yunnan Province, police said Sunday.
The truck rolled on to car carrying six people on a highway in Jianchuan County at about 10 p.m. Saturday. Five people in the car were found dead when rescuers cut open the [...]
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