Chinese Religious Year
CHINESE RELIGIOUS YEAR. The religious year of traditional China may be visualized as a circular base that is the calendar, upon which three overlays are superimposed. The first ...
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Vienna (dpa) - Will it be "Beautiful Music", "Bamboo Boy" or
rather "Lucky Dragon"?
Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo has launched an internet vote to name the
panda c...
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BEIJING, Feb 2 (Reuters) - China is not yet over the worst
of a winter weather crisis that has killed 60 and doomed
millions to a cold dark Lunar New Year holiday next week. The State Council, Chi...
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GUANGZHOU, China, Feb 1 (Reuters) - When worsening weather
stranded hundreds of thousands of Chinese travellers in
Guangdong this week, Cao Jie and Huang Tianquan saw an
opportunity -- to hire wor...
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CHENZHOU, China, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A stampede at Guangzhou
railway station killed one person when frustrated passengers
rushed to board trains after days of cancellations because of
fierce cold an...
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HONG KONG, Feb 5 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday freed a Hong
Kong-based reporter for a Singaporean newspaper jailed for five
years for spying for Taiwan after intense lobbying from
activists and pol...
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BEIJING, Dec 23 (Reuters) - China's shopping malls in late
December leave little doubt that the country has been smitten
by Christmas, if not in quite the way devout Christians might
hope. Christm...
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GUANGZHOU, China, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of
Chinese massed impatiently near a railway station in Guangzhou
on Thursday, desperate to get on trains home for a major holiday
after days...
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CHENZHOU, China, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Emergency crews struggled
on Saturday to restore power to parts of southern China blacked
out for a week by heavy snow as forecasters warned of no quick
end to t...
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When freelance writer Wang Jian shops for toys for her 5-year-old son, she's happy to pay extra for Legos blocks and Japanese-brand train sets.The reason, she and other parents say: Foreign brands ...
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Chinese Religious Year
Internet vote is launched to name Austrian zoo's panda cub
