1.8 m face water shortage in SW China

GUIYANG – Drought has left 1.82 million people suffering from drinking water shortage in southwest China’s mountainous province of Guizhou, the provincial civil affairs bureau said in a statement. The drought, which started in June, has…

Nineteen families get railway compensation

SHANGHAI – As of Sunday, 19 families of passengers that died in the high-speed train crash in Wenzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, had agreed to accept compensation. Relatives of one of the victims of the…

Respect lives and truths

Premier Wen Jiabao inspected the railway rear-end accident site and visited the victim families in Wenzhou city five days after the bloody tragedy killing 39. He calls for fair and reasonable compensations for the victims,…

A Battle of Truth

The high-speed bullet train collision in China raised a battle between the party-controlled traditional media and the newly born media, mainly micro-blog and Renren (the Chinese version of Facebook), to win over the credence of…

HK approves $32m in academic funds

HONG KONG – The University Grants Committee of Hong Kong has endorsed 248 million HK dollars (about $31.84 million) for six academic research proposals, the committee’s Council Chairman Roland Chin said on Wednesday. Chin said…

Can high-speed rail deliver?

The high-speed train to Shanghai pulls out of Beijing South Railway Station and slips through the city like a tiger ready to pounce. Once it reaches the city limits it flexes and launches down the…

Apax Partners buys up Golden Jaguar chain

Private equity firm Apax Partners announced Tuesday that it has bought Chinese restaurant chain Golden Jaguar. The company didn’t disclose financial details of the acquisition, but according to a report Tuesday from Dow Jones Newswires,…