A promising tennis player has the potential to become China's next Li Na, with her talent, foreign coaching and professional approach, observers say.
A federation of trade unions was launched on Tuesday at Taiwanese footwear giant Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings in Gaobu town, Dongguan, Guangdong province, after the company saw massive strikes in April over underpaid contributions to workers' social insurance benefits.
Jin Shengguo, a veteran maintenance worker for the Yangtze River Wanzhou Waterway Management Administration in Chongqing, never imagined that navigating the Bayang Gorge, one of the river's deepest and narrowest waterways, could ever be safe and comfortable.
One of the companies to have benefited from the construction of the Three Gorges Dam is the Chongqing Iron & Steel Group. The company has made huge savings because the cost of transporting goods on the waterway has fallen as a result of improved conditions on the Yangtze River.
Mountains of discarded remote controls litter the warehouse floor. In a dimly lit room, women on plastic stools pry open the devices, as if shucking oysters, to retrieve the circuitry inside.
The Chinese contingent of the UN Mission in Liberia will help build an Ebola Quarantine and Control Center in the capital city of Monrovia, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday in New York.
Fried locusts, ant soup and other dishes made from insects could be the answer to the current global food crisis.
Guangdong, a front-line region in preventing Ebola from spreading in the Chinese mainland, is going all out to stop an outbreak of the deadly virus in the southern province.
Inspection and quarantine authorities across China have recently intensified efforts to prevent the Ebola virus from entering China, and no confirmed infections have been found, China's top inspection and quarantine authority said on Wednesday.
A former air-conditioning installation worker who swindled people by pretending he was going to jump from buildings has been charged with causing a disturbance, the Jiangxi provincial Shangrao city people's government said on Tuesday.
Beijing will likely increase the price for subway tickets to a starting price of 3 yuan ($0.49), the first price hike in seven years, while bus fares will go up to 2 yuan after representatives voiced their support and suggestions at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.
Peter Anders' daily commute involves traveling halfway across Beijing and back.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
