The road less traveled

A high life, but not a pleasant one

Like Tsering Degyi, many of the maintenance workers on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway have left their children in the care of their grandparents. However, the situation is much better than it once was.

Climate change poses dangers

Technicians and researchers have long struggled to combat the negative effects of climate change on the permafrost soil that forms the bed of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, according to the highway authorities in the Tibet autonomous region.

The emotional ties that bind forever

Liu Xiutong is a frequent visitor to the Museum of the Provisional Government of Korea in Chongqing, despite the 60-minute journey each way. He is drawn to the museum by family ties

Anti-China protests take toll on border trade

It was not even the end of May, but the fierce early-summer sun and high humidity made Friendship Pass in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region almost unbearably hot.

A shot in the arm for vaccination plan

At the ripe old age of 40, Wu Jiang has spent the last two weeks attempting to get to grips with WeChat, a popular instant-messaging application in China. As the director of the Immunization Department at the Beijing Center of Disease Control, Wu is keen to learn how his team can use new media to promote awareness of the national immunization program.

A family's life ruined by polio

Polio is an enduring torment for Zhang Yiming, who lives in a village in Jiangsu province. His younger brother wasn't given a polio vaccine in infancy and contracted the disease in early life, leaving the 30-something unable to walk or even stand without assistance.

Immunization makes its mark

The Expanded Program on Immunization in China was initiated to support the government's efforts to control the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases through timely vaccination, effective surveillance, and by strengthening China's routine immunization program.

New vision for university education?

As a boy, Li Jinsheng dreamed of becoming a lawyer. However, his family was poor, so he left school at age 18 without taking the gaokao, China's national university entrance exam, and started working to support his parents.

Special skills for special cases

Visual impairment changes the way children obtain information about the world around them and limits opportunities to learn via the visual elements in the school curriculum and elsewhere. This means that, in addition to regular classroom studies, blind or visually impaired children need to embrace specialized skills, said Han Yao, who works for an NGO called Yi Xin that promotes disabled people's rights, teaching children with visual impairments.

Chinese police to get with the Parisian beat

Xie Wen is planning to travel to Europe. However, even though Xie's first stop on the continent will be Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, she won't be visiting the French capital.

Knowing the districts of Paris

To discover which arrondissement your hotel is in, just check the postal code. For example, the postal code for Paris (75001) begins with 75, and the 01 stands for the 1st arrondissement.