China pledges more humanitarian efforts, says Xi
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-13 05:30:19 -0700 | political-news
China has promised to make further contributions to international humanitarian efforts, President Xi Jinping said on Monday...Xi expressed his appreciation to the committee's active participation in Chinese humanitarian and rescue missions. "The red cross represents not only a spirit, but...
Int'l Red Cross praises RCSC's improvements
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-13 12:54:19 -0700 | political-news
Bekele said the progress that has been made in rebuilding communities devastated by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, as well as the 2013 Lushan quake, has been impressive...Red Cross exchanges and helping establish platforms for aiding African countries.
China meets the new Nixons: Heir to political dynasty gets red carpet treatment as Richard Nixon's ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Hangzhou :: China | updated 2013-05-13 04:32:56 -0700 | political-news
Making the trip in homage to the 100th anniversary of his grandfather's birth, the couple enjoyed the red-carpet treatment from the Chinese government, visiting Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, including tours of Tienanmen Square and the Great Wall...President Richard Nixon (left)...
China: Ai Weiwei Films Violent Street Brawl
Source: Sky News
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-05-13 04:32:27 -0700 | political-news
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has filmed a fight in China in which dozens of Han Chinese brawled with Tibetans in a street in Beijing. The artist, who has exhibited at London's Tate Modern but has also had run-ins...
Two foreign hikers rescued at Great Wall
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-13 02:19:30 -0700 | political-news
The foreigners a man from the United States and a woman from Spain got lost at 11 pm on May 11 after taking part in a music festival. They had planned to tour a nearby mountain in the Badaling area...
Headmaster held over assault on girls
Source: China News
Wanning :: China | updated 2013-05-13 01:09:20 -0700 | political-news
Parents and teachers found four of the girls in Haikou, nearly 160 km away from Wanning, on Thursday, as one of the girls escaped to her relative's home in Haikou. Through information provided by the girls, parents and teachers found...
No fairytale ending for amusement park
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-13 08:35:51 -0700 | political-news
Construction started in the mid-1990s by the Reignwood Group and the venue should have been the biggest amusement park in Asia. However, construction stopped in 1998 and the park became a derelict site. Though unfinished, the park's fairytale castles still...
HK transsexual wins right to wed
Source: BBC
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-13 04:24:51 -0700 | political-news
Hong Kong court supports transsexual right to wed Four of the court's five judges ruled that W should be able to marry her boyfriend A Hong Kong transsexual has won the right to marry her boyfriend, following an appeal to...
Number of left-behind children passes 60m
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-12 21:21:24 -0700 | political-news
The number of children under 17 years old in rural areas whose parents leave them with grandparents or other family members in order to earn money in cities has soared to 61.02 million, accounting for 37.7 percent of rural children...
Give mothers a break: report
Source: China News
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-05-12 21:21:24 -0700 | political-news
When it comes to Mother's Day or any kind of holiday, shopping malls start marketing and commercializing holiday values...Gold, cosmetics and flowers are the top three products that sell, Changjiang Times reported. Han Hongmei, a middle-aged woman with a child...
Memories and tears on quake anniversary
Source: China News
Chengdu :: China | updated 2013-05-12 19:57:03 -0700 | political-news
Yingxiu, Sichuan province ( China Daily) Families of victims travel to Yingxiu for sad Mother's Day celebration five years on As she looked at the short message for Mother's Day from her son Teng Dengfeng, Yao Denghui broke into tears....
Rant: Medical workers should set standard for hygiene
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-12 18:55:28 -0700 | political-news
I lived in Asia for many years and while in Hong Kong did a course at the British Council in teaching English. It was an eye opener for me that I was told "never to lick my fingers" to separate...
The bulls and bears are both wrong about China
Source: The Globe & Mail
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-05-12 18:28:20 -0700 | political-news
DeWeaver Special to The Globe and Mail Last updated Sunday, May. PM EDT Excerpted rom the Introduction, Section 1.2 of Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics: Investment Booms and Busts in the World's Emerging Economic Giant by Mark A. DeWeaver --------------------------...
Foreign teacher: A bridge between countries
Source: China News
Changchun :: China | updated 2013-05-12 17:23:19 -0700 | political-news
I've been studying Chinese at a university in Changchun for the past six months, but before that I was an English teacher at Jilin University. After completing my master's degree in teaching English as a second language, I taught an...
Oversight of foreign experts to improve
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-12 17:23:15 -0700 | political-news
He said foreign experts of many different occupations have made an irreplaceable contribution to the country's decades of rapid economic growth and technological development. "About a third are working in cultural and educational areas," Xia said. "It is my understanding...
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