The death toll in a landslide that occurred earlier this week in southwest China's Sichuan province has risen to 43, authorities said. The landslide occurred Wednesday in Sanxi village, Xinhua reported. Officials said 10 bodies have been identified, while 118 people were still missing. Most of them were tourists. "So far, no sign of life has been detected at the scene," said Ma Kun, head of ...
Chinas power consumption up 6.3 pct in June
China's electricity consumption rose 6.3 percent year on year to 438.4 billion kilowatt hours in June, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said Sunday.The growth rate was 2 percentage points higher than a year earlier, the NEA said in a statement on its website.In the first six months, power consumption increased 5.1 percent from the same period last year to 2.5 trillion kilowatt ...
Flooding kills 8 tourists in S China
Eight tourists were killed and five others injured after a flood hit a scenic area in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Sunday, local authorities said. The accident occurred around 3:35 pm at Paradise Valley in the Yao Autonomous County of Jinxiu, when an upstream dam collapse triggered a flood, according to the fire department of the city of Laibin, which administers the ...
Kyrgyzstan vows closer ties with China
Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev pledged Sunday to deepen cooperation with China when meeting with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.Satybaldiyev said the two nations are longtime friends, and bilateral trade, transportation and mining cooperation have been fruitful in recent years.Kyrgyzstan appreciated the help from China over the years, he said, stressing that the Central Asian ...
China?s Quest for World Pork Domination
The transition from delicious domestic product to topic of a Congressional hearing last week began in May when China's largest meat producer purchased the United States' biggest pork company, Smithfield Foods (a company most-famous for its former-spokeswoman and ...
Bus crash kills 8 injures 19 in SW China
Eight people were killed and 19 others were injured after a tourist bus overturned and plunged into a valley in Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday, local authorities said. Twenty-seven people were aboard the bus when it plummeted into a valley on Mengjing Road in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna at 12:40 pm, sources with the prefecture's press office said. ...
Typhoon 500000 evacuated in China
depression as it moved inland, the China Meteorological Administration said. More than half a million people were evacuated from Fujian and neighbouring Zhejiang as the typhoon approached, with 5,500 soldiers deployed to carry out relief work if needed. Xinhua news agency said almost 31,000 ships were called back to port and 20 flights cancelled. Soulik brought torrential rain ...
Independent thinking not encouraged in Chinas film schools
Li Xianting is a renowned independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art, sometimes he is referred to as the Godfather of Chinese contemporary art. His Film Fund school was founded in 2009. It is a non-profit organisation offering training programmes to independent filmmakers in China. Since its foundation, the film school has held two or three training editions annually for ...
Chinas largest search-and-rescue vessel visits Indonesia
China's patrol and search-and- rescue vessel "Haixun 01" arrived at Jakarta on Sunday, commencing its goodwill visit to Indonesia for the next four days.While China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA)'s largest and most advanced vessel slowly entered the port of Tanjung Priok, Indonesia's largest sea port, it was warmly welcomed by Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Liu ...
Typhoon forces evacuation of 500000 in China
Fujian province with winds of 118 kilometres per hour (73 mph) when it made landfall but had weakened to a tropical depression as it moved inland, the China Meteorological Administration said. More than half a million people were evacuated from Fujian and neighbouring Zhejiang as the typhoon approached, with 5,500 soldiers deployed to carry out relief work if needed. Xinhua news agency said ...
China evacuates 500000 as typhoon hits
EASTERN China is bracing for torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik which forced the evacuation of half a million people after killing two in ...
Protests prompt China to scrap USD6b uranium plant
(MENAFN) China has scrapped plans to build a uranium processing plant in a southern Chinese city, after hundreds of protesters took to the streets demanding the project to be stopped, Reuters reported citing the South China Morning Post.A one-line statement published on the Heshan city government's website said that "to respect people's desire, the Heshan government will not ...
Typhoon Soulik moves inland after lashing SW China
Typhoon Soulik moved further inland to east China's Jiangxi Province on Sunday after lashing southeast China's Fujian Province on Saturday, bringing downpours and strong gales to the region. The seventh typhoon to hit Chinese mainland this year, Soulik entered Jiangxi around 4 am, bringing precipitation as high as 200 mm within five hours and winds of 64.8 km per hour, local ...
China dispatches relief teams to rainstorm-battered regions
Central authorities have dispatched disaster survey and relief teams to rainstorm-hit regions in north China's Shanxi Province and northwest China's Shaanxi Province, ...
Scenery of Xilingol Chinas best preserved grassland
Photo taken on July 12, 2013 shows the view of local pasture in West Ujimqin Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The pasture is part of the Xilingol, China's best preserved grassland which covers an area of 202,580 square kilometers. (Xinhua/Ren ...
Asiana crash survivors return to China
Beijing Capital International Airport from San Francisco, on July 13, 2013. The?31 crash survivors, all from Jiangshan Middle School?in East ...
Nuclear plant scrapped after public outcry in South China
A planned facility to process nuclear fuel in Jiangmen of South China's Guangdong province has been canceled, following opposition by a majority of residents, the local government said on Saturday. The 229-hectare Longwan Industrial Park project, which had been scheduled in Heshan, a county-level city in Jiangmen of the Pearl River Delta region, would have featured facilities for uranium ...
Chinas Jiangsu beat host Vietnam 3-2 in womens volleyball
Hanoi (Vietnam), July 14 (IANS) China's Jiangsu beat Vietnam 3-2 in the first match of the 10th annual international women's volleyball tournament (VTV Eximbank Cup 2013) in Vietnam's northern Ninh Binh province. Jiangsu players outperformed Vietnamese rivals in the first set of the match Saturday with quick pace and got the set 25-15, reports Xinhua. The two teams traded points ...
China forecasts heavy rain from Typhoon Soulik
Typhoon Soulik was set to dump up to 18 centimetres of rain on eastern parts of China in just 24 hours, forecasters said on Sunday, a day after the storm killed two when it battered ...
Designer of China?s Internet Blockade Reviled by Netizens
The man known as the father of China's "Great Firewall"--the extensive system for censoring the Internet--has announced his retirement. Netizens heaped abuse on him. Fang Binxing stated on June 27 that he would resign as president from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications due to serious illness. "Why would you help the evil side?" wrote netizen ...
China Reports More Abortions and Unprotected Sex
Beijing, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) Chinese experts are concerned about the growing number of abortions among young women, along with an increase in unprotected sex and ignorance about the danger of using abortions as a contraceptive method. Local media has reported on the situation in different regions of this Asian country, which has a population of 1.3 billion, and has warned about the increase ...
Powerful typhoon smashes into China
A powerful typhoon has surged into China, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from a coastal province after passing across northern Taiwan, killing at least two ...
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