Shandong, China News

Two divers perform mermaid and prince in the water at Qingdao Underwater World in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Feb.

Located to the north of the center of Jinan, Daming Lake is the largest of its kind in the historic city.

This photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 shows a container port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province.

Pattaya officials signed a tourism-cooperation agreement with Qingdao, China to facilitate exchange of knowledge and technology, as well as see Pattaya exhibit at a 2014 floral show there.

Customer requests - and the busy port of Savannah's position as a logistics hub for the Southeast - have prompted the Mediterranean Shipping Company to add Savannah to its weekly Golden Gate Service between the East Coast and Asia.

TheA University of Glasgow'sA comprehensive offerings in the political and international relations fields provide students with a range of options for specializing their degrees in international affairs.

BEIJING, Feb. 8 -- China's Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that home appliance sales under the country's rural subsidy program dropped 25.7 percent year-on-year to 13.74 billion yuan in January.

China's government promised Wednesday to raise minimum wages by 13 percent a year through 2015 and to launch measures to generate 45 million new jobs.

JINAN, Feb. 8 -- A Chinese banker who allegedly embezzled hundred millions of yuan from a bank has been arrested about a week after he fled, local police reported Wednesday.

Photo taken on Sept. 7, 2012 shows icicles hanging from handrails at a port in Yantan, east China's Shandong Province.

A delegation from Liaocheng, in the Shandong Province of China, arrived in Newtown on Friday, February 3, and, after spending an event-full weekend in town with host families the delegates, were welcomed during ceremonies at Newtown High School, Newtown Middle School, and Reed Intermediate School on Monday, February 6. "As the principal of Newtown ... (more)

Chinese folk artistes perform stilt dance for the Chinese Lantern Festival at a celebration event in Qingdao city, Shandong province yesterday.

China has it all, From the wide open and empty panoramas of Tibet to the push and shove of Shnghai from the volcanic dishes of Schuan to beer by the bag in seaside Qingdao, a journey through this colossus of a country is a mesmerising encounter with the most populous, perhaps most culturally idiosyncratic nation on earth.

People help reinforce mooring rope of a fishing boat stranded in the ice floating in the Huanghai Sea off the coast of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Feb.

JEDDAH: Global marine terminal operator DP World has announced another record year for container handling, with over 54.7 million TEU handled across its global portfolio in 2011, an increase of 10 percent from the prior year.

SINGAPORE: Sailors taking part in the world's longest yacht race are gearing up to head to their next destination - Qingdao, China - on Saturday.

QINGDAO, Jan. 30 -- Different from their parents, who after working in cities would return home to rural China with their savings, the new generation of migrant workers often prefer to settle down in the bustling hubs where they work.

Potential homebuyers examine a developer's display in Qingdao, Shandong province, during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Chinese visitors Thirty students and 10 educators from China are scheduled to arrive in Newtown on Friday.

China's retail sales for the week-long Spring Festival holiday rose 16.2 percent year-on-year, boosted by a variety of promotional events, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed on Saturday.