Yunnan, China News

More than 200 snipers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army concluded a 40-day training assembly on Wednesday.

A meeting of directors of Thai trade offices in overseas markets, chaired by Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, yesterday acknowledged that exports would increase by only 5 per cent this year, down from the previous target of 8-9 per cent.

That is how Myanmar is being portrayed, and not without reason. For both China and the United States, the stakes couldn't be higher.

A subway line opened Monday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, the first to be built in the area.

Round-table talks with inhabitants of the DPRK were held at the Koryo Compatriots House on Friday upon their return home from south Korea to which they had been taken due to south Korean puppet agents' sinister plots and allurement and appeasement.

The East by Southeast blog has posted a detailed account of Thursday's protests in Kunming over the planned PetroChina oil refinery and reported paraxylene plant.

Aktiefokus estimates that Carlsberg's Yunnan beer market share has fallen from 50%+ in 2003 to around the low 30s in 2013 Danish multinational brewer Carlsberg, which once held a solid market share in the Southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, is facing tough competition from new entrants and existing competitors desiring a share of the region's ... (more)

Former police officer Abner Afuang burns a replica of Taiwan's national flag as he protests against the mistreatment of Filipinos working overseas, along a main street of Manila on May 17, 2013.

The 2013 University of Colorado students who have received Fulbright offers and their destination countries are: Ulyana Horodyskyj, Nepal; Renee Payne, Brazil; Elise Pizzi, China; Sean Planchard, Spain; Ian Rowen, Taiwan; Amelia Schubert, China; Eric Simley, Denmark; Levin Sliker, Italy; Marin Toscano, China; Andrea Watson, Chile; Claire Waugh, ... (more)

At an executive meeting of the State Council, Li said there is increasing pressure on employment this year because nearly 7 million students - a record number - will graduate from college.

Chinese security forces staged a massive crackdown in the center of a provincial capital city Thursday to prevent protests against the construction of a chemical plant, witnesses said.

About 2,000 demonstrators concerned about pollution have taken to the streets in southern China to protest plans for a planned refinery on the outskirts of the city of Kunming.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Chinese city of Kunming on Thursday to protest against the planned production of a chemical at a refinery, the second demonstration this month against the project.

Myanmar will exhibit a wide variety of rice for the first time at Kunming Trade Fair in China as a bid to boost the market shares, according to Myanmar Rice and Paddy Traders Association.

Residents in cities across the mainland, and including Hong Kong, reacted with alarm on Monday when they saw this apparition high in the skies above Sichuan, as seen in this image taken by a Hong Kong resident.

Yunnan provincial officials said on Tuesday that new facilities will be installed to tackle wastewater and exhaust gas at a controversial oil refinery in Kunming, the provincial capital, and promised to keep a close eye on the air quality there.

Kenji Fujimoto was accepted into Kim Jong-il's inner circle during a 13-year stint serving North Korea's first family.

China is willing to strengthen cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross, President Xi Jinping said during a meeting with Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC.

Members of youth organizations in the Indian state of Assam demonstrate in favor of opening up the Stilwell Road, a 1,726-km route from Ledo in Assam to Kunming, in China's Yunnan province.

"Django Unchained" became "Django Unscreened" as Quentin Tarantino's violent slave-revenge saga was pulled from Chinese theaters on its opening day, with the importer blaming an unspecified technical problem.