As a Shanghai travel agency began promoting mainland wedding package tours to the United States, authorities warned such overseas marriages do not count under Chinese law. Meichen Travel offers a nine-day trip to New York…
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China’s largest oil company has begun operations at Al-Ahdab oil field in Iraq, making the field the first major new area to start production in Iraq in 20 years, according to an official news report. Operations began June…
Bai Jiancheng was named editor-in-chief of China Electric Power News in April 2006, a time when it seemed as if the lights were dimming on the 25-year-old newspaper. The Chinese power industry was undergoing an…
Eastern China’s Anhui Province is facing a coal shortage of eight million tons this year, the Anhui provincial government said July 4. Anhui’s coal consumption is expected to top 126 million tons this year, while…
After giving several false alarms for rainstorms on July 1, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau explained on Sunday that forecasting precipitation comes down to a lot of guesswork. The bureau issued a thunderstorm and lightning warning…
Beijing – The government can only ask Beijing residents, whose houses are designated to be demolished, to move out after paying them satisfactory compensation, according to a notice issued on Saturday by the Beijing municipal…
FUZHOU – China’s meteorological authorities issued a warning on Sunday about excessively high temperatures that are expected to hit southern China for the next few days. The mercury is set to hover between 35 and…
Asian equities climbed a fifth consecutive session on Monday, led by Chinese stocks, though the euro turned lower after ratings agency S&P warned that any rollover of Greek’s debt would constitute a default. After two weeks…
Six months after new policies were implemented to ease Beijing’s notorious congestion, nearly 80 percent of the capital’s citizens still say they have yet to see an improvement, according to an ongoing survey by the…
Copies of a speech made by China’s top leader Hu Jintao on the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have been popular, according to booksellers on Sunday. More than 100 copies sold…