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Everbright's green aims spark bridge sale
Waste processing service provider China Everbright International is set to dispose of its last non-core business in a bid to focus on the mainland's booming environmental protection sector.
Factors associated with job satisfaction among Chinese community...
With the medical reform, the function of community health centres emerged to be more important recently in China.
In China, a recoil against xenophobia
This time, however, the technique seems not to be working as well as it used to.
Carmaker BMW doubles capacity in China with new plant
German automaker BMW has boosted its production in China with the opening of a second facility in the northeastern city of Shenyang.
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Death Toll Rises To 9 In Northeast China Mine Collapse
SHENYANG, May 23 -- The bodies of five miners have been removed from a mine that collapsed last Sunday in northeast China's Liaoning province, bringing the death toll to nine, China's Xinhua news agency reported, quoting local authorities statement on Wednesday.
As China's economic, political and military influence rises, one important question is - what sort of power China will be? How will it interact with foreigners and foreign nations? Will it be benign - as China's own officials say when they talk of China's "peaceful rise" - or will it be an assertive, nationalistic, even xenophobic power? In recent ... (more)
YVR opens routes to China, London
Vancouver Airport Authority announced Friday the arrival of Sichuan Airlines, offering the continent's first and only direct flight to China's interior.
'Rude' cellist sacked in Beijing
The Beijing Symphony Orchestra has fired a Russian cellist for insulting a train passenger who asked him to take his feet off a seat.
4 dead, 5 trapped in Liaoning colliery roof collapse
A Medical staffs wait on an ambulance in Qingshuitai township of Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 21, 2012.
Train fight leads orchestra to suspend cellist: report
An award-winning Russian cellist has been suspended from the Beijing Symphony Orchestra after allegations he brawled with a woman passenger on a train, state media said on Friday.
Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China , edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, Comma Press, RRPA 9.99, 224 pages Comma Press's website tells us that this anthology of Chinese stories was launched "to coincide with the China Market Focus at this year's London Book Fair". It is, therefore, impossible to read it without thinking of the ... (more)
The Big Picture: Daily life around the world
Thousands of images are supplied by multiple wire services to newspapers across the country each day.
Musician apologizes for behavior on train
A Beijing Symphony Orchestra musician who has been vilified by Web users after footage emerged of him verbally abusing a train passenger issued an apology for his behavior on May 17.
China consumers less willing to spend in first quarter: Nielsen
A customer bargains with a vendor for eggplants at an open-air food market in Shenyang, Liaoning province May 11, 2012.
'China is future's most important market'
Although Japan continues to be CNMI's biggest and most important tourism market, the number of Chinese outbound travelers has steadily increased through the years and is projected to reach 100 million by 2016, making it an important market that the Commonwealth cannot afford to ignore, according to Tan Holdings president Jerry Tan.
Four Human Rights Activists Detained in China
Four South Koreans who were campaigning in China against human rights abuses in North Korea have been detained by Chinese security forces since their arrest in March.
Dismal China, India data signal slowing growth
A woman buys fresh vegetables at a market in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province, Thursday May 10, 2012.
Students stretch during a training session at a gymnastic course at Shenyang Sports School in Shenyang, China.
Shanghai: Can the Fastest-Growing City in the World Keep it Up?
If China is, as Jeffrey Sachs has said, the "most successful development story in world history," then Shanghai is the apotheosis of global development.