Beijing – Thanks to a public donation, a toddler suffering from a severe type of anemia will undergo cell-transplant surgery next week in Beijing. Xie Hongze, a 3-year-old boy from South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous…
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URUMQI – The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has launched a two-month anti-terrorism campaign and vowed to hunt down terrorists in the region, local authorities said in a statement released on Monday. “The frequency with which…
BEIJING – China’s railway system, after increasing the speeds of trains six times since 1997 and opening more high-speed rail lines in recent years, has hit the brakes. That reversal of a long-standing trend is…
BEIJING – As China’s population becomes more dominated by males, authorities have begun a national campaign to crack down on procedures used to determine a fetus’ sex for anything other than medical purposes and abortions…
Wang Yongping, former spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, takes questions from journalists after a July 24 news conference on the train crash near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. [Provided to China Daily] BEIJING – The Ministry…
BEIJING – The Chinese military on Tuesday refuted a report that Chinese intelligence officials were allowed by Pakistan to photograph the crashed US Blackhawk helicopter from the Osama bin Laden raid and take wreckage samples…
Purchase of $5.7 billion shows options are limited BEIJING / NEW YORK – China purchased another $5.7 billion of US Treasuries in June, an investment described by one expert as “the best of a bad…
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (L) addresses an economic forum in Hong Kong August 17, 2011. [Edmond Tang/chinadaily.com.cn] HONG KONG – Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, at a forum being held here on Wednesday,…
Wang Jianyou, a resident of Xinglong village, shows on Sunday the bugs he eats every day. Wang, a lung cancer patient, believes eating 50 bugs a day will help to relieve the symptoms of his…
BEIJING – A new set of design rules calls for pedestrian bridges and underground passages in the capital to be built with heavy-duty escalators that have brakes to prevent them from suddenly stopping or reversing…