The Chinese capital is trying to regulate the use of electric bicycles. The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau has announced that,starting April 11, non-motorized vehicles will be banned from ten of the city's major thoroughfares. The list includes a...
BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday announced embargoes on some imports from and exports to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). In terms of imports, China banned purchases of coal, iron ore, gold, rare earths and several other...
Related reading: BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Guo Boxiong, former vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission (CMC), has confessed to taking bribes, military prosecutors said Tuesday. Military prosecutors have finished investigating Guo's al...
Related reading: BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Floods, hail and mudslides in seven south China provinces since Friday have caused three deaths, leaving three others missing, said the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Tuesday. Downpours triggered floods and...
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RElated reading: BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping urged development of the country's forestry while attending a voluntary tree planting in Beijing on Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) plants a sapling with students du...
Hundreds of innovators and scientific researchers have taken part in a China-sponsored innovation contest in Sydney, Australia. Tuesday's event was a preliminary contest for Australian and New Zealand competitors. Competitions were held in five areas...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is on a two-day visit to Myanmar. He is the first foreign minister to visit the Southeast Asian nation since the new government was sworn in. On Tuesday, Wang met with his Myanmar counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypy...
China is Myanmar's largest neighboring country. The two sides attach great importance to their long-term friendship. Aung San Suu Kyi visited China last June. She said she personally felt the profound friendship between the two peoples. And Wang Yi i...
The UN Under-Secretary General, Kim Won-soo, also High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, has praised China's efforts for world nuclear security. Kim made the comment after the nuclear security summit in Washington DC, and said conferences like...
Chinese are celebrating a three-day holiday for the traditional Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day. It's the most important occasion to honor ancestors. This year it falls on Monday. Qingming is the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either the...
Rich or poor, death is something that comes to us all. Yet for many in China, the cost of giving loved ones a proper send-off is an increasing struggle. To help those families living below the poverty line, welfare funerals are being introduced in so...
During the Qingming Festival, Chinese custom calls for burning fake money or set off fireworks as an offering to loved ones who've passed away. But as times change, more and more people are turning to some environmentally-friendly ways to pay their r...
Most of the injured people are now receiving treatment at hospitals in two nearby cities. A total of 35 injured were sent to the PLA 101 Hospital in Wuxi City after the accident. One was declared dead after an emergency operation. 23 people, seven of...
Travel-loving Chinese are making most of the three-day holiday. Major airports in China are seeing more flights, comparing to same period last year. Saturday was the first day of the holiday, more than 240,000 people departed from Beijing airport. Th...
