Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, August 15, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] $55.28 million aimed at providing food to drought-striken areas BEIJING –…
Category: Regions
Chinese car brands such as Geely, Dongfeng, Zotye, Soyat, Hafei and others have sold only zero to four cars each in the first six months in Singapore, local daily Straits Times reported on Friday. The…
A girl helps her parents pile bricks up in a brick factory in Haining, Zhejiang Province on August 10. There are about 100 workers in total, hailing from remote villages in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan…
HOHHOT – A car accident in north Inner Mongolia autonomous region has left nine people dead and another one injured, local safety authorities said Monday. The accident happened at about 6:14 pm Sunday when a…
LHASA – The central government of China will inject two billion yuan annually from 2011-2015 into a subsidy program for grassland conservation in Tibet, according to the autonomous region’s agricultural authorities. The subsidies will go…
GUIYANG – A gas blast in a coal mine in Southwest China’s Guizhou province left 10 people dead and one injured, local government official said Monday. The blast occurred at about 9:28 pm Sunday in…
Slowly and carefully, 79-year-old Xu Chiguang performs needlework stitches on embroidery. The goose pattern on the silk fabric opens its wings, making it look very vivid. But the embroidery master knows it is much more…
A monk browses the art show at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities on Saturday. More than 200 works of calligraphy and paintings, some by China’s well-known monks, are part of a five-day exhibition. [Liu Zhen…
A customer at a McDonald’s in Beijing’s Chaoyang district on Sunday. [Geng Feifei / China Daily] Problems with major brands raise public concern over safety, Zhang Yuchen reports in Beijing. Cheng Qizheng, 19, is a…
A passenger gets rid of his frustration at Shanghai’s Xujiahui subway station on Aug 9. [Yang Yi / for China Daily] Netizens encourage commuters to use padding as way to relieve their stress SHANGHAI –…