Wuhan, China News Archives

The Olympic torch relay in central China's Hubei province will kick off tomorrow in Wuhan, Yichang, and Jingzhou city with shortened route, provincial government official said at a press conference tomorrow.

The sacred Olympic flame embarked on its journey in Hubei province's capital city of Wuhan, nicknamed "River City", on Saturday, as the first leg in the central China's province.

China and the Republic of Korea on Wednesday issued a joint statement outlining their new "strategic cooperative partnership." The statement coincided with the first state visit of new ROK President Lee ...

SOUTH Korea's largest oil refiner SK Energy Co said yesterday it will take a 35 percent stake in a major petrochemical joint venture in central China with Sinopec Corp.

Workers vamp the inner of the Zhongshan Warship Museum with the historical cruiser "Zhongshan", salvaged out of the Yangtze River on January 28, 1997, well placed on its preset berth, as its relocation project ...

Lee Academy officials hope to have two satellite high schools in China within the next two years - one of which they plan to open in January 2009, Headmaster Bruce Lindberg said Tuesday.

Chinese and Korean contemporary artworks are slowly catching on with international art collectors.

This would make it the largest vehicle yet built locally by the OEM and give PSA a challenger for the big selling Guangzhou Toyota Camry and Guangzhou Honda Accord sedans.

By Sun Mingguo and Shar Adams, Epoch Times staff, May 13, 2008- More than 10 days before the disastrous earthquake that hit China on May 12, residents in Abazhou of Sichuan had already been discussing that an ...

“It is a miracle that a woman could survive 124 hours after being buried”

New Delhi, May 19: A young woman survived without food and water for nearly 124 hours in a Chinese province before she was rescued from under the debris of a five-storey building which collapsed during last ... via Daily India

“I asked the rescuers to start from the ones who were easier to recover than my son”

"My son has always considered me a hero," policeman Li Guolin told Wuhan Evening News yesterday. via China Daily

“The problem now is this kind of relationship is still quite vague”

First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China's worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely.

As bodies are pulled from the wreckage of Monday's quake, Chinese online chat rooms and blogs are buzzing with a question: Why didn't these natural signs alert the government that a disaster was coming?

'If the seismological bureau were professional enough they could have predicted the earthquake ten days earlier, when several thousand cubic meters of water disappeared within an hour in Hubei, but the bureau there dismissed it,' one commentator wrote. Read more

A batch of electrify-driven light trucks were put into trial operation on May 6, in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei Province. via People's Daily Online

“All the buildings are swaying back and forth”

Four children died in a suburb of southwest China's Chongqing municipality when the earthquake toppled two primary schools, Xinhua news agency said. via Globe and Mail

TWO passengers were injured when a China Eastern Airlines aircraft was evacuated yesterday in Beijing after a fire alarm went off, the carrier said. via Shanghai Daily

Discussion Policy Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. via The Washington Post

AFP. PARIS. RESEARCHERS in China have pinpointed an elusive gene that plays a linchpin role in determining the harvest potential of rice, according to a study released yesterday by the journal Nature Genetics. via The Herald

“We are pleased to file the amendment which takes us one step further to completing our S-1 registration.”

WUHAN, Hubei, China, May 6, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Benda Pharmaceutical, Inc. via Med Ad News

“This exhibition should be put on in foreign countries, instead of just in China, so that people around the world will have a better understanding of Tibet”

An exhibition in Beijing on Tibet's past and present has drawn 12,700 visitors since it opened, according to organizers. via People's Daily Online

Wuhan General , a leading manufacturer of industrial blowers and turbines, today announced the appointment of Haiming Liu as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective immediately. via TechWeb.com

“Authorities in Anhui and Fuyang are doing utmost to treat the children and strengthen disease control”

A mass intestinal virus infection in the eastern Chinese city of Fuyang, Anhui Province has killed another child, bringing the death toll to 21, a local health official said on Friday. via VietNamNet

Championship Gaming Series announced today the appointment of three new General Managers for the PanAsia Region as the league prepares for its PanAsia Final in Wuhan, China. via Xbox99