China News
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Shanghai -
Britain's Prince William practised sports diplomacy in China on Tuesday, striding onto the football pitch at a Shanghai school.
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Sydney -
The intensive underwater hunt for missing plane MH370 has so far turned up just a few shipping containers -- and no sign of the jet, the head of the Australian agency leading the search said on Tuesday.
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Hong Kong -
A simple Chinese vase made over 800 years ago and unveiled in Hong Kong Monday is expected to fetch HK$60 million (US$7.7 million) when it goes under the hammer next month, Sotheby's said.
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Paris -
Thieves have broken in to the fabled Fontainebleau castle south of Paris and stolen 15 or so "priceless" Chinese artefacts in a lightning raid, French authorities said.
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Hong Kong -
Three Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were arrested and then released Monday over their involvement in mass protests for free elections, the latest targets of a police probe campaigners say is tantamount to intimidation.
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China's giant pandas are having a population boom, according to a survey conducted by the Chinese government. The survey, released Saturday states that their numbers in the wild have increased by nearly 17 percent during the last decade.
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Some of China's largest online companies have been forced to delete over 60,000 accounts registered on their services ahead of the upcoming date for the introduction of new censorship and regulation of names used online.
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Bejing -
Beijing has imposed a one-year ban on imports of ivory carvings as critics say rising Chinese demand threatens African elephants with extinction, but campaigners described the move as "more symbolic than effective" Friday.
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China's fireworks displays can be spectacular and loud during the celebration of the Lunar New Year. The noise apparently scared a seven-month-old tiger cub kept in a high-rise apartment, causing it to plunge to its death.
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Ankara -
Turkey has alarmed fellow NATO members by raising the prospect of handing China a multi-billion dollar missile contract, yet the long-running saga is far from over and Ankara may just be trading for a better deal.
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Bejing -
A seven-month-old tiger fell to its death from a Chinese high-rise building, state media reported Wednesday, apparently frightened by Lunar New Year fireworks.
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An open letter addressed to China’s president, Xi Jinping, was signed by Sir David Attenborough, conservationists, celebrities and MPs, urging China to act swiftly in order to save African elephants from possible extinction.
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Bejing -
China has expressed "strong dissatisfaction and staunch opposition" after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a frontier area controlled by New Delhi but claimed by Beijing, state media reported.
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Inya -
Myanmar's army Saturday said more than 130 people had died in a deepening battle with rebels in the northeast, declaring it would not rest until stability was restored to the border area which tens of thousands have fled.
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Bejing -
Fireworks illuminated the skies across China as millions around Asia ushered in the Year of the Sheep on Thursday, kicking off festivities with an annual televised gala that got a thumbs down on social media for heavy Communist Party propaganda.
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Hong Kong -
The Year of the Horse brought catastrophic international air accidents, brutal terror attacks, global political upheaval, a resurgent Ebola virus and war -- and, in Hong Kong, large-scale civil unrest.
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Nearly 90,000 civilians in northeastern Myanmar are believed to have fled clashes between troops and ethnic rebels, an official said Wednesday, as sporadic violence hampered efforts to evacuate those still trapped.
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Myanmar on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in a conflict-torn border region, where ferocious fighting between the army and ethnic rebels has sent thousands fleeing airstrikes and fierce gun battles.
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Growing fighting between Myanmar's army and ethnic Kokang fighters in a region bordering China has killed dozens in the past week and sent tens of thousands fleeing across the frontier, reports said Monday.
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There are now 50 cases of H7N9 avian flu in humans in south China's Guangdong Province resulting in 12 deaths, according to local health officials. The new cases are in additon to the 83 H7N9 cases reported from Dec. 2014 to Jan, 2015.
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Bejing -
As hundreds of millions in China flock home to celebrate the Year of the Sheep, the world's biggest human migration places extraordinary pressure on roads and railways -- but technology is offering new ways to find a route home.
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Bejing -
China should roll back its one-child policy and instead mandate that all couples have two children, a family planning official has said, drawing criticism Friday from a ruling Communist Party newspaper.
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Atenas -
Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been invited to visit Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, a government source said Wednesday.
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On Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's three-day visit to China, at least 15 agreements were signed, including agreements on travel visas, infrastructure, financing and collaboration on the building of two nuclear power plants.
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Bejing -
Investment bank JP Morgan is being investigated by US authorities for hiring the son of China's commerce minister despite him being one of the worst candidates its recruiters had seen, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Bejing -
A Chinese mining billionaire said to have links with disgraced former security tsar Zhou Yongkang and who once launched a bid for Australia's Sundance Resources was executed for multiple murder on Monday, a court said.
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A farmer in a remote region of China has stumbled across a huge gold nugget on the ground on the land. The incredible find has an expected value of at least $250,000.
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Bejing -
China is opposed to foreign countries receiving the Dalai Lama, a government spokesman said Friday, the day after US President Barack Obama held a symbolic first public encounter with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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Bejing -
A shopping mall inferno killed 17 people in China, authorities said Friday, the latest deadly accident in a country where safety standards are often flouted.
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Brussels -
Remember how just a few years ago one of the most pressing issue to world peace and security seemed to be the sundry band of pirates off the coast of Somalia that was wreaking havoc across the Gulf of Aden by pillaging and plundering trade lanes?
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China Image
A Chinese soldier among the crowds in Tiananmen Squire, Beijing
Entrepreneur Wang Jing tells Reuters why he's putting his fortune behind a controversial $50 billion dollar venture to build a canal across Nicaragua that aims to rival Panama's as a shipping lane. Reuters Digital
Glazed figures with horses, from China circa seventeenth century.
The parasol lady adjusts her hair (Chinese women like white complexions, so they use whitening makeup and parasols to protect them from the sun)
The northern face of the Great Wall
Lucky bamboo in the Imperial Garden that lies beyond the Inner Court
Step through this gate into a courtyard
Cemetery in China. Faungg's photo
The Marble Boat. The base of the lakeside pavilion was built with marble-looking stone. The superstructure is wood painted to simulate marble and decorated with mirrors and paintings. Obviously, the boat cannot float; it was used by Empress Cixi for lakeside dinning and receptions.
Chinese shoplifter Yu Chung stripped of her top after being caught by an angry shop owner. Youtube
Sino Persian trade relations
Pudong, China's financial and commercial hub, situated in Shanghai. Wikipedia
A man rides a bicycle cart near pink flowers along the Songhua river walk
View of the Ming Tombs valley from the pagoda gate; you can see other tombs atop distant hills
![A corner inside of the Japan Pavilion [Photo: Zhenyu Li]](/img/9/8/6/1/7/6/i/7/7/6/o/Japan_Pavilion_by_Zhenyu_Li4.jpg)
A corner inside of the Japan Pavilion [Photo: Zhenyu Li]
Heavy smog at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, December 6, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Aly Song
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