Vice Premier restates tourists' good manners
2013-05-20 03:37:42
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang on Sunday stressed that efforts should be made to advocate "healthy and civilized" manners among tourists.
Truck fire kills 3 in SW China
2013-05-20 03:37:42
Three people were confirmed dead after a truck carrying ammonium nitrate burst into flames after colliding with two sedan cars in Guizhou Province on Sunday.
Top restaurants find new rules hard for them to stomach
2013-05-20 02:22:11
The government's nationwide clampdown on graft and wasteful spending has left many high-end catering companies with a simple choice: Adapt or die.
Call for more holiday time
2013-05-20 02:22:11
More than 40 percent of Chinese employees do not get paid leave, according to a national survey of people's leisure time and vacations.
Job fair pairs handicraft masters with potential apprentices
2013-05-20 02:22:11
Handicraft masters sought apprentices who can carry forward their skills and cultural legacy in a job fair dedicated to people with disabilities in Beijing on Sunday.
Yingxiu five years on
2013-05-20 00:51:41
With the quake's epicenter just a stone's throw away from her village in the mountains, He Xiaoyan is arguably one of the most visually descriptive tour guides in the world.
Improved teaching aids TCM understanding
2013-05-19 20:18:08
Maximin Gaillard, a French student obsessed with traditional Chinese medicine, used to feel completely lost in class. But improvements in teaching methods by professors of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) aiming to make concrete abstract theories and empirical practices have helped Galliard understand things better.
Firecracker workshop blast kills 3 in Henan
2013-05-19 20:06:10
An explosion at an unlicensed firecracker workshop in Central China's Henan province killed three people and injured three others on Sunday, local authorities said.
High court review for rape victim's mother
2013-05-19 18:47:20
A high court in central China's Hunan province is to review attempts by the mother of a rape victim to sue a local authority for imprisoning her after she protested the sentences given to her daughter's violators.
Torrential rain affects 200,000 in Guangxi
2013-05-19 13:12:26
Continuous rainfall has claimed a life while affecting about 200,000 people in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, local authorities said on Sunday.
China issues alert for rainstorms in south
2013-05-19 11:09:11
China's meteorological authority on Sunday issued a blue alert, the lowest level in a four-color warning system, for rainstorms in the south from Sunday to Monday.
Haven of Literature
2013-05-19 07:52:42
The Orchid Pavilion is famous for A Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems, written by Wang Xishi. Today, it remains a popular venue for festivals celebrating the art of fine calligraphy.