Pollution Is Radically Changing Childhood in China's Cities
Source: The New York Times
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-22 16:00:04 -0700 | political-news
The boy's mother, Zhang Zixuan, said she almost never lets him go outside, and when she does she usually makes him wear a face mask. The difference between Britain, where she once studied, and China is heaven and hell, she...
Expert calls for rational volunteering, donations
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-22 11:23:58 -0700 | travel-news
YAO in Beijing ( China Daily) Volunteers without specific training are encouraged not to jump into disaster centers and should save their efforts for post-disaster recovery, an expert said. They were also urged to protect themselves and learn self-help tips,...
Snapshots of devastating China quake
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-21 00:51:04 -0700 | travel-news
A devastating earthquake that shook southwest China's Sichuan province Saturday has killed 181 people and injured more than 10,000 as of midday Sunday...The 7.0-magnitude quake jolted Lushan County of Ya'an, a city near the provincial capital Chengdu, at 8:02 a.m....
Quake-hit Chinese look...
Source: Arab News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-21 02:39:01 -0700 | travel-news
Agence France Presse Sunday 21 April 2013 Last Update 21 April 2013 12:41 am YA'AN, China: A bloodied survivor sat on a chair outdoors getting stitches to his head as rescue workers struggled to pull other people from the rubble...
Insight: China's 2020 consumer is in a town you've never heard of
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-18 15:00:45 -0700 | business-news
Wearing a floral brocade cardigan and toting a Huawei smartphone, Guo Qian , 22, gushes over her latest purchases on Taobao, China's largest e-commerce platform. As an administrative worker, Guo makes only 3,000 yuan a month and spends most of...
Thai AirAsia bullish on Chinese market
Source: The Nation
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-18 11:12:26 -0700 | business-news
Business in Indochina, including Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as domestic traffic also increased. Thai AirAsia's overall passenger numbers for the first quarter were on target, with a record-breaking March 2013 of approximately 920,000 passengers.
Standing up to the Mongols
Source: Chinadaily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-17 20:40:32 -0700 | lifestyle-news
About 90 km north of downtown Chongqing lies a suburban community called Hechuan. It might be a misnomer to call it a "community" as it is home to 1.5 million residents, a city of sizeable scale in itself...But a town...
History Echoes in metropolis
Source: Chinadaily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-17 20:40:31 -0700 | lifestyle-news
Granted, much of it remains rural, but the rate of urbanization is so fast the metro ride from the airport shows an unbroken stretch of new housing projects. To study its people, without the benefit of touring the sprawling city,...
Liangjiang New Area: Ein Tor ins Landesinnere
Source: PR Newswire
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-17 13:16:22 -0700 | business-news
Mit dem sogenannten Pacific Telecommunications ( ) Data Center wurde am 27...Cloud-Computing-Rechenzentrum von in der Liangjiang New Area in Betrieb genommen. Das nationale Cloud-Computing-Zentrum wurde in erster Linie zur Offshore-Datenverarbeitung eingerichtet und wird bereits vom Chinese...
H7N9 patients get compensation from restaurant
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-17 06:59:00 -0700 | technology-news
Seeing its business affected by the bird flu, Qiansi Stewed Chicken, with 11 restaurants in downtown Chongqing, announced that the business will reimburse any customer who contracts H7N9 bird flu within 30 days after eating at one of its restaurants,...
Chongqing looking to the skies
Source: Chinadaily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-15 19:09:39 -0700 | business-news
Now, as motorcycles are banned on the roads of nearly 200 cities, and export volumes keep slumping due to the gloomy global economic environment, local authorities and motorcycle producers are looking to the skies for growth. Chongqing is one of...
East meets West on drafting table
Source: Chinadaily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-15 14:39:25 -0700 | lifestyle-news
When news broke in late 2012 that developers in Chongqing were building a near exact duplicate of British architect Zaha Hadid's Wangjing Soho development in Beijing, her reaction was surprisingly magnanimous. "That could be quite exciting," she said of the...
Average age drops after leaders reshuffle
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-14 18:25:32 -0700 | political-news
Du Jiahao, 57, was appointed acting governor of Hunan province on Thursday. He has previously held high-ranking posts in Shanghai and Heilongjiang province. The nomination of Du symbolizes the completion of the reshuffling of Party secretaries and governors, which started...
Chongqing auto expo lures with discounts and cash
Source: Chinadaily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-13 03:20:10 -0700 | business-news
Both car manufacturers and dealers have come up with discounts to entice potential customers, with the highest discount for a car cutting up to 300,000 yuan ($48,091.68) off the original price. In addition, anyone who buys a car at the...
Over 100 kids hospitalized over unexplained lesions
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-04-11 11:18:43 -0700 | technology-news
More than 100 children from a kindergarten in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality have been hospitalized after unexplained petechiae were found on their lower limbs, local health authorities said Thursday. So far, a total of 115 children from the Guji Kindergarten,...
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