China Travel News

A traveling exhibition of the Shanghai Expo was unveiled Sunday in Beijing on the 300th day of countdown to the event.

Until last week, Alice Li's summer plans were simple: work part-time at a convenience store, study for graduate exams and go to the amusement park with friends.

Japan expects opening tourism to Chinese individuals could be a boost to the economy and welcomes all Chinese tourists as long as they meet certain requirements, Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Yoshiaki Hompo told Xinhua in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 23, 2009, media mogul Jimmy Lai appears in a Hong Kong court.

Blue bricks, black tiles and European-style carvings -- all the trappings of a standard colonial home in 1920s in Shanghai.

Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new government of Nepal to quell them.

The food, the sights and the people - along with the H1N1 virus - made for a memorable two-week trip to China for Ankeny teen John Schmidt and his mother, Carolyn.

A Taiwan company launched a cruise service with China Sunday, making it the first such cross-strait service in 60 years.

It was just after midnight when the taxi driver dropped us off at the entrance to an alleyway partly blocked by sacks of cement and piles of bricks.

"Anxiety, and a little bit of doubt" - these were the words flight attendant Zou Xue used to describe her feelings before taking off on the first Airbus A320 assembled in China.

The United States on Thursday said it was "deeply disturbed" by the reported arrest of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and called for his release.

BEIJING : Shopping for a new negligee, Beijing resident Ha Li is looking for that is, as she puts it, "as easy to take off as to put on". Filling such needs is getting easier for Chinese like Ha, 23, who browses an array of vibrators, bondage gear, and other assorted goods like "Go Deep Oral Sex Mints" in a new Beijing sex shop.

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in Ashgabat on Wednesday that the joint natural gas projects between China and Turkmenistan serve the fundamental and long-term interest of both peoples.

China's foreign minister played friendship ambassador on a hastily arranged visit to Canada on Tuesday, calling on the two countries to find the "vision and the courage" to expand their bilateral relations and put recent tensions behind them.

Thirty-five high-speed rail lines, measuring 11,000 km, are being rolled out throughout China, a railway ministry official said on June 23.

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, North Korean ship, the Kang Nam I, is anchored in Hong Kong waters.

"The two countries will definitely see closer cooperation in various fields and push their relations to a new level," said Chinese ambassador Gong Xiaosheng in an interview with Xinhua ahead of a state visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gul to China.

Mrs. Chen can't imagine abandoning one of her two best friends: her scruffy terrier mutt and a white fluffy Pekingese mix with buggy eyes.

Despite the global financial crisis, the number of high net-worth individuals on the Chinese mainland has hit a record high.

Kochi: Indian food delicacies with flavour and taste of spices are becoming a big hit in China, Spices Board sources said.