Zhengzhou, China News

People ride bikes in the shade of plane trees yesterday on Renmin Road in Zhengzhou City, capital of central China's Henan Province.

The Royal New Zealand Ballet's recent return tour to China with their production of Romeo and Juliet was a success on many levels, and received a rapturous response from press and audiences alike.

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A small software firm in the tony enclave of Santa Barbara may have helped personal computer makers fend off demands by the Chinese government for mandatory Web-filtering software on all PCs sold in China.

ZHENGZHOU: An official in charge of construction in central China's Henan Province was found dead Wednesday, a day after he was abducted, police confirmed Thursday.

THE developer of a possible illegal housing project in central China that sparked the infamous remark "Who are you going to speak for?" by an official defending the project is a company owned by two local officials' wives.

THUNDERSTORMS are expected to hit the city tomorrow and they will stay around until Monday.

SUN WUKONG A cycle up for renewal By Wu Zhong, China Editor HONG KONG - The People's Republic of China, founded and ruled by the Chinese Communist Party , will greet its 60th birthday in October with nationwide celebrations, including a grand military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

People wearing sunglasses rush along the street, buses have their air conditioners cranked up, and everybody does their best to minimize the time spent outside.

In a move that didn't receive much attention, the Senate on Wednesday passed by unanimous consent the Graham-Lieberman bill, which seeks to make it illegal to make public any images of US prisoner abuse and torture from the Bush era.

A HENAN Province government official has been suspended for a verbal gaffe that clashed with Communist Party doctrine, asking an investigative reporter, "Will you speak for the Party? Or will you speak for the people?" The comment was broadcast nationwide, and Internet users nominated it as the catch phrase for 2009.

ZHENGZHOU: A total of 84 children from a kindergarten in Central China's Henan Province were under hospital treatment and observation on Monday morning, after they had been struck down after having eaten noodle, porridge and yogurt on Friday, said local health authority.

A WOMAN in north China's Henan Province says incompetence by county police has allowed a rapist to stay free for six years.

Despite the slowdown in the economic growth in China, KFC, the world's leading fast food chain, has not slowed its expansion in the country, on hopes that the robust local consumption aided by the nation's 4-trillion-yuan economic stimulus package could help it recoup the losses.

Ma Qichang will be saved after one year's desperate wait. His elder brother, Ma Qizheng, has been paroled from prison and can now donate a kidney to the younger man, who has been suffering from uremia for two years.

One of China's largest bus-makers has been named the most favorable bidder at Macedonia's tender for bus procurement, news reaching Tirana from Skopje reported on June 18,2009. Yutong Group, located in Zhengzhou in China's central province of Henan, offers a basic price for 302 double-decker buses at a price tag of 51,000,000 euros, Macedonia's ...

Mayor Ray Nagin and Mr. WeiQiang Zhou share a light moment during a luncheon in China on June 7. The mayor said the city foot the bill for the trip but expects to be reimbursed by a host, who he would not name.

China's authoritarian government has backed away from an order to load Internet-filtering software on every new computer after a major outcry by citizens used to the relative freedom of online life.

BEIJING: Chinaa s censors find themselves in an uncomfortable position within days of ordering the nation that all computers bought after July 1 should contain specific software to filter out pornography.

A California company alleged that an Internet-filtering program being pushed by the Chinese government contains stolen portions of the company's software.