Building a road to revival
2011-09-01 10:39:24
The roads being reconstructed by workers like Hu Yongtao in the Yushu quake zone are, in turn, the roads to reconstruction in the disaster area.
Lessons in hope and frustration
2011-08-31 07:36:43
The new school term might be the last one Tang Siping will spend with his 1,500 students - all children of migrant workers.
Minding other people's business
2011-08-30 10:46:52
It was a sweltering summer morning and Ding Tao was patrolling the crowded Fuzhou Road in Shanghai, trying to convince shopkeepers to keep their goods off the sidewalk.
Doc the prescription for improved health
2011-08-26 08:11:04
Although Dr Chaoguo has only about 100 kinds of Tibetan medicine, the opening of his clinic in Yege township is offering new hope to the 2,000 herders in Qinghai province.
Keeping cool a matter of life and death for sick boy
2011-08-25 10:17:30
Summer is the most difficult season for 12-year-old Hu Fengyi to endure.Simply put, he can't sweat.
Mystery man rolls out barrels
2011-08-24 10:15:35
For three years, an unknown man had been leaving barrels of drinking water under overpasses for migrant workers and passers-by in Zhengzhou, Henan province.
Inventor prepares big escape
2011-08-23 11:02:15
For the past six months, 22-year-old Liu Feng has been repeating the same action every day and night: jumping off a seven-story building.
Tibet airhostess eyes bright future
2011-08-22 12:04:17
Dressed in Tibetan traditional costume, Dechen Yangzong, China's first Tibetan airhostess, says she is happy to return to her hometown and join Lhasa-based Tibet Airlines.
Stone sculptor's Buddhist devotion
2011-08-22 11:21:16
Many who visit Lhasa's famous Thousand Buddha Cliffside Sculpture on the western side of the Medicine King Mountain are usually immediately drawn to its magnificence and the utter devoutness of Tibetan Buddhist worshippers prostrating themselves over and over again on the ground.
Growing up Potter
2011-08-19 08:26:28
Harry Potter's fans have grown up with the boy wizard over the past decade. But his final battle on big screen this summer is not the end for his fans.
There's water, water everywhere
2011-08-18 08:09:43
I need a master's degree to do this? Lin Yu could well be asking himself the same question as the holder of an master's in engineering can frequently be seen standing in the rain, pumping water.
Obama's half-brother promotes book in China
2011-08-17 21:48:15
The half-brother of US President Barack Obama attended a book fair in Shanghai Wednesday to promote his semi-autobiographical novel "Nairobi to Shenzhen" and to autograph its Chinese edition for the readers.