Fifteen-year-old gives host its first gold in pool with late surge in 200m medley SHANGHAI – Chinese teenage swimmer Ye Shiwen won the home team its first swimming gold medal at the 14th FINA World…
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BEIJING – Huang Xiaoshan, an environmental activist, has decided to invest in and open a garbage sorting station that he will call “the green house”. And helping him in that endeavor will be the local…
Baidu Inc, China’s biggest Internet company by market value, forecast third-quarter revenue that beat analyst estimates as customers spend more on search-engine advertising in the world’s second-biggest economy, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Revenue will rise to…
A chance to participate in an installation exhibition in Beijing opens up a whole new world to a group of poor women from Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Erik Nilsson reports. Not only had they never…
Official city sources have quashed a rumor that the government of Nanjing city, capital of East China’s Jiangsu province, planned to paint all the roofs of houses in the city. The rumor stemmed from a…
A Ming Dynasty art is being revived by a 27-year-old, whose humorous take on the hot topics of the day wins new fans for xiangsheng, or crosstalk. Cheng Anqi reports. Wang Zijian’s schoolmates can scarcely…
BEIJING – Insiders have questioned why the rail dispatch system failed to prevent the rear-end collision between two bullet trains on Saturday in Wenzhou. The first bullet train was traveling south from the Zhejiang provincial…
HONG KONG – Hong Kong utility CLP Holdings Ltd said Monday it has bought a 17 percent stake in a nuclear power plant in southern China for 4.8 billion yuan ($745 million). CLP said its nuclear investment…
BEIJING – China’s rail minister has ordered a two-month safety check on railway operations and apologised for Saturday’s deadly train crash that killed 39 people, a report on People.com.cn said on Tuesday. Sheng Guangzu, Minister of…
The crash accident reached a first settlement: the family of the victim was compensated 500,000 Yuan
The “7·23” particularly significant bullet train crash accident reached a first settlement to compensating 500,000 Yuan to the victim’s family. The victim Lin Yan came from Fuzhou in Fujian province. In addition, 39 victims were…