Dragon Boat Festival
The annual Dragon Boat Festival, commemorating the dead, is observed primarily in central and southern China. It occurs on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and falls between...
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Two days after Wendy Scurr had her weekly chemotherapy session in her homeland of South Africa, she was in Singapore rowing a traditional Asian dragon boat with other breast cancer surviv...
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BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - China officially announced the
scrapping of one of the country's three "golden week" holidays
on Sunday and introduced three new one-day public holidays. The new nation...
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The bodies of five Singaporean men who went missing when their boat capsized after a holiday race were pulled out of a Cambodian river Sunday, officials said. A sixth body, that of a Cambodian rowe...
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The bodies of five Singaporean men who went missing when their boat capsized after a holiday race were pulled out of a Cambodian river Sunday, officials said. A sixth body, that of a Cambodian rowe...
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A company in eastern China was ordered to stop production after food safety officials found it was repackaging the filling from two-year-old rice dumplings, an official said Tuesday.Officials in ea...
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Schwerin, Germany (dpa) - On German Unity Day, Chancellor Angela
Merkel defended Wednesday the tax burden on the country's richer west
to boost the formerly communist east. ...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni officially
closed the nation's three-day Water Festival Sunday but the ceremony
was tainted by tragedy after police diver...
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China's government has taken steps toward changing the country's national holiday schedule to cope with overwhelming travel congestion and restore traditional celebrations, state media reported.Chi...
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China's regulatory standards chief pledged Wednesday to update and boost enforcement of food safety rules as the country faces intense international pressure for exporting unsafe products from toot...
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