At least 27 people were missing in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, after a landslide hit an industrial park on Sunday morning.
It was smoky, alcohol-free and there was no swimsuit contest, but the party produced the first Miss Iraq in four decades and left everyone feeling a small victory had been won.
Stealth technology was applied to the wheels of missile transporters used in the Sept 3 parade in Beijing marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Use of the renminbi will be broadened internationally after ratification of the 2010 quota and governance reforms of the International Monetary Fund by the US Congress, according to experts.
Back in the dim and distant past - which I admit to being old enough to remember - junk mail plagued my doormat every day when the morning post arrived, no doubt much to the chagrin of my postman, for whom all of these unwanted items of correspondence added even more of a burden to his already bulging mailbag.
Item from Dec 21, 1995, in China Daily: Asia's largest department store, the Shanghai No 1 Yaohan Company's New Century Plaza, opened yesterday in the Pudong New Area.
Nearly half of the people polled in a recent survey on social habits said they could not recall the last time they hugged their parents or friends.
Chiang Rak Noi Station, about 50 kilometers north of Bangkok, was filled with the sound of music on Saturday, as Thai and Chinese dancers performed to mark the launch of an ambitious railway project.
Some of the railway projects that China is working on with other countries.
China urged the US on Saturday to prevent provocations after two US B-52 bombers flew near Nansha islands.