When the ambulance arrived, two medical staff jumped out and ran into the Peace Ark field hospital holding two boys in their arms. The boys had been found in a swollen river. One was 7 years old, the other 6.
China's most developed regions were attacked by smog over the weekend.
I was overjoyed to hear I would be allowed to join an official "secret inspection" team. The idea was quite glamorous: A world of cloak and daggers and undercover James Bond-like activity. It didn't even occur to me that this once-in-a-lifetime game of shadows would end up being so humdrum and even monotonous.
It was 8 pm in Tacloban. An ambulance screeched to a halt, its lights flashing, and a man was carried out on a stretcher. His face and chest were covered with blood.
It's not a good idea to take a walk around the field hospital at night. The excess water brought by the typhoon has turned the farmland around the hospital into a swamp. The cracked sidewalks of the only passable road are littered with holes, some so deep that they are death traps. Snakes, toads and other mysterious creatures startled by my flashlight, slithered, hopped or scurried away around my feet.
The world loves pandas. The enigmatic, retiring beasts have become a global symbol of international friendship since China first began sending them as gifts to foreign countries in the 1950s.
When Shi Quan arrived in Fengyang, Anhui province in 2006, he immediately sensed a business opportunity.
Statistics from Henan's agriculture department show that by the end of November, the rights to some 188 hectares - 29 percent of the arable land in the province - had been transferred. The province has 65,000 farming cooperatives and more than 15,500 independent producers with large production volumes.
China will improve the mechanism for coordinating urban and rural development, to allow farmers to share the fruits of modernization.
The launch of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe early on Monday morning attracted worldwide attention, with the European Space Agency and a number of academics in the United States predicting that the mission will bring new advances and closer cooperation.
To most Chinese, the moon will not drive you crazy. Rather, it is the realization, buttressed with high-resolution photos taken by satellites and rovers, that the moonscape looks just like a desert, that is an absolute wet blanket on the romanticism associated with the Earth's natural satellite.
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