Two South African students have confessed to stealing a penguin called "Buddy" from a marine park and releasing him into the Indian Ocean, the park's management said.
In most high schools in China, students are not allowed to take their cellphones to the class. Recently, a high school in Henan province said it would allow pupils who get high scores in exams to carry their smartphones.
As a recovering workaholic who used to view holidays as the professionals' equivalent of a club soda, I've had second thoughts about the importance of downtime. But, since working in China, I've had further reason to revisit the notion of time off and what it means.
Item from Sept 30, 1985, in China Daily: Nearly 1,000 metric tons of fish from West Africa is now being sold in Beijing markets, thanks to China's first ocean-going fleet. ...
China and Belarus signed 26 documents on Thursday in Beijing to enhance cooperation in areas including investment, trade, education and science.
The checklist of things that hotels, restaurants, museums, airports and other tourism-related businesses in Washington, DC, should provide to attract Chinese tourists includes accepting China UnionPay and having Chinese social media accounts, free Wi-Fi and smoking rooms.
Shimon Peres, the last of Israel's founding fathers, who died at age 93 on Wednesday morning, was no stranger to the Chinese people.
With the weeklong National Day holiday just around the corner, massive domestic migration will soon begin, causing heavy traffic jams, packed trains and long lines at airports.
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