Journalist killed in construction accident
Source: China News
Urumqi :: China | updated 2013-04-18 00:38:18 -0700 | travel-news
A female journalist died and another was seriously injured in an accident while interviewing on a construction site in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Thursday morning. The editorial office of the Urumqi Evening News, where...
Chinese Navy's Blue Water Dreams
Source: Indian Express
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-18 00:11:10 -0700 | travel-news
That China is building a blue water navy capable of operating far from its shores has been known for a while to observers of the rapid military modernization in Asia. Beijing's biennial White Paper on defence issued this week simply...
Barack Obama to honour Boston victims at city's Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Source: The independent
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-04-18 00:04:32 -0700 | travel-news
The president will attend an interfaith service at the city's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, three days after the devastating blasts claimed three lives and injured dozens more. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the twin explosions which killed eight-year-old Martin...
8 kids injured in escalator accident
Source: China News
Shenzhen :: China | updated 2013-04-17 06:58:56 -0700 | travel-news
Eight students were injured, including four who are in critical condition, in an escalator accident at an amusement center in south China's Guangdong province on Wednesday. The accident occurred around 3 p.m. at a children's amusement center in Luohu District,...
China ready to offer humanitarian aid to Pakistan
Source: China News
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-17 06:15:50 -0700 | travel-news
China is ready to offer humanitarian aid to Pakistan for disaster relief purposes, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Wednesday. "The Chinese government expresses its condolences for those who died in the earthquake and extends its sympathy to the relatives...
China to boost land supply for residential houses
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-04-17 01:35:29 -0700 | travel-news
In 2013, China plans to raise its land supply for new homes in 70 major cities to 50,300 hectares, 1.2 times that the average level of the past five years, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a statement...
3 men missing after submarine accident
Source: China News
Zhuhai :: China | updated 2013-04-16 04:57:04 -0700 | travel-news
06 ( chinadaily.com.cn) Three people are missing after a submarine accident near the coast of South China's Guangdong province on Monday. Four people were in the civil submarine, developed by Zhuhai Jianyu Shipping Co in Zhuhai, when it was undergoing...
Guangzhou splashes cash on food, medical safety
Source: China News
Guangzhou :: China | updated 2013-04-16 04:57:04 -0700 | travel-news
Yao Jianming, director of Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration, said the money will be used to build three food examination areas and improve eight food supply systems to ensure only safe food is supplied in the southern city. "Guangzhou will...
Seven sentenced over fatal mine blast
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-04-16 04:57:03 -0700 | travel-news
A gas blast at a coal mine in Shizong county on Nov 10, 2011, killed 43 people and resulted in economic losses of up to 39.7 million yuan ($6.4 million). According to the court, the safety supervision bureau in 2008...
Beijing military car violations drop 35%
Source: Chinadaily
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-16 03:20:07 -0700 | travel-news
Tightened measures to curb military vehicle misuses have reduced such violations markedly, said a senior Chinese People's Liberation Army officer on Tuesday. Since the launch of the new measures in late 2012, reports of military cars violating traffic regulations in...
China: US destabilizing Pacific by increasing presence
Source: Fox
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-16 02:01:48 -0700 | travel-news
In its latest account of national defense efforts, China said Tuesday that the United States is destabilizing the Asia-Pacific region by strengthening its military alliances and sending more ships, planes, and troops to the area. The U.S. policy known as...
China discloses how PLA troops are formed
Source: China News
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-15 20:33:35 -0700 | travel-news
A white paper issued Tuesday discloses, for the first time, how the army, navy, air force and the second artillery corps of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are formed. According to the white paper on "the diversified employment of China's...
Chinese navy intensifies blue water training
Source: China News
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-16 04:57:19 -0700 | travel-news
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is intensifying blue water training, according to a white paper issued Tuesday by the State Council Information Office. "The PLA navy is improving the training mode of task force formation in blue water,"...
Policies, principles of armed forces' employment
Source: China News
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-04-16 03:24:12 -0700 | travel-news
A white paper issued Tuesday by the State Council Information Office introduced the fundamental policies and principles followed by the diversified employment of China's armed forces. -- Safeguarding national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and supporting the country' s peaceful...
China's largest, most advanced patrol vessel
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-04-15 19:16:35 -0700 | travel-news
A helicopter is pictured on the patrol vessel Haixun01 in Shanghai, East China, April 15, 2013. Haixun 01 , soon to be put into service and managed by the Shanghai Maritime Bureau, is China's largest and most advanced patrol vessel....
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