An earthquake reaching magnitude 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province in Southwestern China at 2:28 P.M. on May 12 Beijing time (2:28 A.M. May 12, U.S. Eastern time)....
Close to 9000 people are reported dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Wenchuan, Sichuan. Read here for the latest updates. Below are some images of the devastation. From AP news: From CCTV: A student at Sichuan University took
The Chinese government has discussed the possibility of inviting the Dalai Lama to the Olympics, and the Dalai Lama has said he maybe willing to attend. From Reuters: Khedroob Thondup, a Taipei-based member of Tibet's parliament-in-exile, said a senior leader
Enterovirus, better known as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) has become an epidemic in mainland China. As of Wednesday, May 7, at least 16,000 children are known to have become infected with HF...
From AFP, via Taipei Times:China's response to the suffering of cyclone survivors in Myanmar has exposed the limits of its ability — and arguably its willingness — to press even close allies to change set habits, analysts say.With the junta
From CBS:Grace Wang, a Chinese student at Duke University in the CBS story above also wrote the following essay: The Old Man Who Lost His HorseBy Grace WangThere is a Chinese proverb: (Saiweng Shima, Yanzhi Feifu). It is the story
AP's Joe McDonald reports from Beijing:China's inflation rebounded in April to near decade-high levels, adding to pressure on Beijing to cool rapid price rises and avert possible unrest ahead of the Summer Olympics, according to official data reported Monday.Consumer prices
From Reuters:An earthquake measuring 7.5 rocked China's Sichuan province on Monday, less than 100 km (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Chengdu, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.It was not immediately clear if there were any
A delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Seychelles, led by deputy speaker Wilby Lucas, will pay an official good-will visit to China from May 14 to 21, at the invitation of the Standing Committee of the National
The Credit Reference Center under the People's Bank of China settled in Shanghai recently. It is responsible for establishing, running and managing the enterprise and personal credit investigation system, as well as providing services on cr ...
In order to establish the payment environment for Beijing Olympics, the local government in Beijing had set a goal to disseminate services accepting RMB cards and foreign currency bank cards with a ratio of prevalence of over 90% around Oly
An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted Tongzhou District in east Beijing Monday afternoon. The quake struck at 2:35 p.m. Beijing Time and the epicenter was initially determined to be 39.8 degrees north latitude and ...
A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. Monday, the State Seismological Bureau said, revising a previous figure of 7.6. The epicenter of the quake w ...
Zheng Yu could be viewed as an ordinary man from Fujian province. But he had an extraordinary life in Tibet while he worked there as a volunteer. Zheng, as deputy director of the agricultural department of Nyingchi prefecture many y
Earthquake was felt in the capital city of Beijing and Xinhua reporters in Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing also reported major tremors at around 2 p.m. Monday. Source:Xinhua ...
May 11th is the first day of "National Urban Water Saving Publicity Week." The Shanghai Water Supplies Department announced on this day that Shanghai has started to create a water-saving society after becoming a national water-saving city. ...
On April 19, thousands of Chinese students and expatriates demonstrated in Paris de la Republique in support of the upcoming Beijing Olympics and to denounce sections of the French media for their distorted reports on the March 14 Lhasa rio
