Hengduan Ranges
The Hengduan region in northwest Yunnan Province in China, extending into neighboring Tibet and Sichuan, is China's longest and widest mountain system. The area is transversed b...
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Yunnan
(2002 est. pop. 43.2 million). The southeastern China province of Yunnan (Yün-nan, "the cloudy south") borders in the west on Burma and Tibet, in the north on Sichuan, in t...
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Yangon (dpa) - Myanmar plans to build a road, a railway and
a natural gas link to Yunnan, China, to foster closed economic ties
with its neighbour to the north, state media ...
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BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A villager and his six-year-old
grandson were killed when a section of a 150-metre bridge
collapsed under their oxcart in southwest China, Xinhua news
agency said late ...
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Drivers waited in lines up to a half-mile long to buy gasoline in China's mountainous southwest Tuesday amid rationing aimed at easing a fuel crunch in key export regions elsewhere.Supplies began t...
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Beijing (dpa) - Emergency workers have evacuated nearly 180,000
people after an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck
part of south-western China's Yunnan pro...
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Beijing (dpa) - A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter
scale struck an area of south-western China's Yunnan province early
Sunday, destroying houses, killing at le...
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Beijing (dpa) - German President Horst Koehler in his upcoming
talks in Beijing said on Wednesday that he will be urging the Chinese
leadership to do more toward environment...
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Beijing (dpa) - Ahead of German President Horst Koehler's visit to
Beijing for talks Thursday, tensions emerged over a resolution passed
in the German parliament condemning ...
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Yangon (dpa) - China is conducting a survey on the feasibility of
using Myanmar's Yanbyai island as an oil terminal to supply a planned
1,440-kilometre pipeline from the Bay...
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Beijing/Bangkok (dpa) - Thailand's military-appointed Prime
Minister Surayud Chulanont met top Chinese leaders in Beijing on
Monday, on a two-day visit to China that was sho...
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BEIJING, July 22 (Reuters) - Fifty-nine people have died in
floods and landslides in southwest China where dykes protecting
a swollen river in the east, where tens of thousands have fled
their hom...
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