Ten months ago when I was posted to Thailand as a correspondent, many of my friends made fun of me, saying that I would become the female version of the popular Chinese comedy movie Lost In Thailand. Well, I didn't. But, now in Nepal, I truly am.
The pressures on table tennis players at the world championships in Suzhou are intense, but Nepalese player Nabita Shrestha has the added burden of worrying about her family after the devastating earthquake struck her country on Saturday.
The first rescue team sent by China arrived in Nepal on Sunday at the scene of the devastating earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people.
Helicopters airlifted injured climbers off Mount Qomolangma on Sunday after an avalanche killed at least 18 people, including one Chinese national, when a big aftershock hit the world's highest peak.
Wu Ashun became the first Chinese golfer to win a European Tour title on home soil when he beat David Howell by one stroke to capture the Volvo China Open on Sunday.
The devastating Nepal earthquake offers China fresh lessons on how to more effectively protect its citizens and their property in the quake-prone country, Chinese scientists said.
The Chinese government is helping citizens stranded in quake-hit Nepal and has arranged for hundreds of them to be flown home.
A member of a Chinese mountaineering team was killed and two others were severely injured in the Qomolangma avalanche triggered by the Nepal earthquake, according to the Chinese Mountaineering Association on Sunday night.
The number of Chinese tourists visiting Nepal is likely to fall sharply following the earthquake, according to travel industry sources.
Twenty Chinese people were killed in the Tibet autonomous region as result of shock waves related to a magnitude-8.1 earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday.
Nepal's devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming.
Most of the historic buildings in the Kathmandu Valley were destroyed in Saturday's powerful earthquake.
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