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The poet Woeser has long been a rarity _ a Tibetan living in China who doesn't flinch from publicly criticizing the Chinese government.

BEIJING - At least three powerful aftershocks hit southwest China's quake area on Thursday, killing one elderly person and injuring more than a dozen, the official Xinhua news agency said.More than 69,000 ...

By now we all know that a visa extension is no longer a matter of bringing the right identity photos to the Public Security Bureau. What used to be a routine process is now a dangerous lottery, made all the more confusing because different PSBs seem to be following completely different application procedures and demanding different requirements, and the rules may change again next week.

Cyclist Bobby Lea of Topton is looking forward to competing in the Beijing Olympics in three weeks, but not to breathing in the city's heavy smog. ''I think it's going to be a concern for everyone,'' said Lea, who along with fellow Olympian Giddeon Massie of Quakertown competed last December in a World Cup at the Beijing velodrome that served as a test event for the arena. ''It was so bad there that I had a sore throat within a half hour of being on the ground, by the time I was checking into the hotel,'' the 24-year-old Lea said Monday after an Olympic send-off at the White House with President Bush.

U.S. triathlete Jarrod Shoemaker has a decision to make at the opening ceremony of the Olympics next month in Beijing: Should he strap on a mask? Chinese officials insist the notorious Beijing air will be ...

Thousands of people who suffered severe allergic reactions after sitting on their sofas were victims of a toxic gas emitted by an anti-mould agent, a study has concluded.

The same mechanism that makes greater numbers of people keel over dead of heart attacks and strokes when microscopic air-pollution levels spike in cities across the United States has researchers voicing their ...

Smile When Communicating with Foreigners A Smile is Beijing’s Best Business Card — A Smile is the Whole World’s Propriety “Eight Don’t-Asks” When Chatting with Foreign Guests: Don’t ask about income or expenses, don’t ask about age, don’t ask about ....

Most of the pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve, tucked in the lush mountains of Sichuan province, had already been moved following the powerful May 12 quake that rattled Sichuan province and killed nearly ...

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama intends to visit a southern Israeli town that is a frequent target of rockets fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, campaign aides accompanying him on his ...

Bad loan ratio in China's commercial banks has reduced to 6.1 percent as of June 30 amid the sector's efforts to enhance risk control, the country's banking regulator said on Sunday.

Milwaukee will soon have two lions guarding the Zeidler Municipal Building downtown.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said unswerving confidence and arduous work are needed to achieve the goals of a steady and relatively fast economic development and control of soaring consumer prices in the ...

Explosions on two public buses killed two people and wounded 14 others Monday in China's southwestern Yunnan province, a state news agency reported.

The first explosion occurred at 7:10 a.m. at a bus stop in downtown Kunming city and the second at 8:05 a.m. at a nearby intersection, the official Xinhua News Agency said. A destroyed bus was seen in front of the Panjiawan bus stop, Xinhua said, and broken glass was scattered in front.

No further information was available. The Kunming police refused to comment, saying the information had been released in the Xinhua reports.

Last September, the deputy director of a local Environmental Protection Agency in central China led a team to investigate the illegal discharge of waste water by a pharmaceutical factory.

Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a totalitarian state like China? This is the kind of power government has in the Communist country - they are shutting down a modern city in order to cut pollution ...

Shortly after dawn on July 9, the local government here bused several thousand students and office workers into a public square and lined them up in front of a vocational school.

China is abandoning Chairman Mao's dream to make Beijing a workers' paradise, rebuilding it under the cover of a "green" Olympics as a capital for its 21st century empire.

A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a "honeytrap" operation by Chinese intelligence agents.

The accusation by BBC about China's arms sales to Sudan fuelling war in Darfur is "ungrounded and biased", said Liu Guijin, Chinese government's special representative on the Darfur issue said here Friday.