Sichuan, China News

A panda who was relocated after China's deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday, a state news agency said.

Guo Guo is the first panda to give birth since the 7.9-magnitude quake struck Sichuan province on May 12, killing nearly 70,000 people and leaving 5 million homeless, Xinhua News Agency reported.

One cub weighed 6 ounces, Xinhua said. Guo Guo was cuddling the other cub and staffers at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Base were not able to weigh it. The report did not give the sex of the twins.

Was the Sichuan earthquake a tipping point for China? Local investor, Ho Kwon Ping, who owns luxury spa resorts in this part of China, things so.

Asia Pacific News.Net Saturday 5th July, 2008 New Delhi, July 5 : A team of Indian journalists is making a goodwill visit to China from July 6. According to the Embassy of China in New Delhi, the nine-day trip ...

Clemson University piano professor Linda Li-Bleuel has been named a 2008 Fulbright Scholar, the university announced Tuesday.

Wang Li, an 18-year-old student from Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang county of Deyang, Sichuan province, sat for the national college entrance examination in a hospital yesterday.

A digital document-drama using real quake volunteers and quake survivors as actors has begun shooting in quake-hit southwest China's Sichuan Province and will be screened in early September.

Nearly two months after returning home to Sichuan Province following the devastating May 12 earthquake, more than 600,000 migrant workers are now facing the dilemma of what to do for work.

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Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake BEIJING, July 3 -- The 19-year-old managed to flee his home before it collapsed in the May 12 earthquake.

Directed by Hong Kong-born veteran John Woo, "Red Cliff" opened Wednesday night in Chengdu's Wu Hou Shrine -- the first time such an event will be held in a top cultural heritage building.

The 150-km-long urban corridor in Sichuan province will be expanded to encourage millions of homeless people in the quake-hit regions to move to the urban areas, Yin Qiang, in charge of the province's urban ...

"Police in Sichuan have detained a middle-school teacher who openly criticized the construction of school buildings that collapsed in large numbers during the devastating May 12 earthquake.

A new residence permit system will be launched next month, in a bid by authorities to provide more equality for the city's 8 million migrant workers.

Liu Zhaoxue, an 80-year-old farmer from the western suburbs of Chengdu, forced himself out of bed at 6 am yesterday.

Landslides have blocked a highway with rubble and isolated 3,000 people in a quake-hit town in southwest China, Xinhua News Agency said.

Heavy rains Monday pushed large amounts of unstable earth and rocks onto three different sections of the highway near Yingxiu town in Sichuan province, Xinhua reported.

Hundreds of rescuers were working to clear the road, Xinhua said, and the government is considering sending relief materials into Yingxiu by helicopter.

'We're not sure when the road will be reopened as the rain is really a problem. It may cause new landslides,' an official with the Sichuan provincial highway administration was quoted as saying in the late Monday report.

A man was killed in the rainstorm in Shenzhen of the southern Guangdong Province, said local sources on Sunday.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008, 8:53 am Press Release: United Nations Recent quake sends shockwaves through China's agricultural sector - UN 30 June 2008 - Last month's earthquake in Sichuan, China, has caused some $6 ...

A shocking new viral video campaign by Amnesty International is urging people to take online action to improve human rights in China.

The current earthquake relief and rebuilding work have further displayed the nature and capabilities of the Communist Party of China , said Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Sunday in a tour to quake-hit areas ...

The seat of Beichuan county, one of the worst-hit towns in the May 12 quake in China's southwestern Sichuan Province, was closed again early on Thursday for epidemic prevention.