JIUQUAN, China - China launched a three-man crew into space Thursday, including one who will make the country’s first spacewalk - its most challenging mission since its first orbital flight in 2003.
The Shenzhou 7 spacecraft, China’s third manned mission, blasted off atop a Long March 2F rocket into a clear night sky in northwestern [...]
JIUQUAN, China - China successfully launched a three-man crew into space Thursday to carry out the country’s first spacewalk, beginning the nation’s most challenging space mission since it first sent a person into space in 2003.
The Shenzhou 7 spacecraft, China’s third manned mission, blasted off atop a Long March 2F rocket shortly after 9 [...]
BEIJING - Several days a week, Wu Ruiyao hits the gym, where she sweats on a treadmill, tones her abs in a group exercise or stretches under the guidance of a personal trainer.
The 90-minute workout is routine to Wu, a 36-year-old ad sales representative. But the surroundings - a four-story fitness club catering to [...]
BEIJING (AP) — China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.
The latest figure on Web use at the end of June is a 56% increase over the same time last year, the [...]
BEIJING — London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower , San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge and now Beijing has an iconic structure that’s likely to identify the city forever.
It’s an audacious monolith that looks like two drunken high-rise towers leaning over and holding each other up at the shoulders.
The eye-catching [...]
BEIJING - A third autopsy on a teenage girl whose death sparked a riot last weekend in southwest China confirmed she died of drowning, while two more top local officials have been fired, state media reported Friday.
Xinhua News Agency said the autopsy on high school student Li Shufen confirmed the initial police findings, which [...]
BEIJING - China’s top leaders said they were thankful for U.S. help after Sichuan’s devastating earthquake, with Premier Wen Jiabao saying Monday he was impressed that the first foreigners he saw providing help when he toured the province were Americans.
Almost 70,000 people died in the May 12 quake that devastated a wide swathe of [...]
Foreign Ministry has revealed that the Director General of the Department of Aid to Foreign Countries of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Gao Yuanyuan has met with Abdul Azeez Yusuf the Maldives’ Ambassador at Large yesterday morning at the Foreign Ministry.
According to Foreign Ministry Gao Yuanyuan’s visit to the Maldives is symbolic of the [...]
BEIJING - Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of southwestern China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.
The May 12 Sichuan province quake caused severe damage in the Wolong Nature Reserve, and the report said pandas from its Hetaoping [...]
CHENGDU, China - Anguished parents of children killed when a primary school collapsed during China’s earthquake last month staged an hourslong sit-in at the school Friday while waiting for the results of an investigation into its construction.
The parents said officials in their town had promised to give them details on how the school was [...]
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