Nineteen miners died and 110 escaped with their lives after a cave-in at a coal mine in Shanyin county on Wednesday night, the mine's parent company said on Thursday.
Tibetan Buddhist monks are learning a range of skills, from languages to computing, along with their religious studies to ensure they don't lose touch with the modern world.
The Tibetan Buddhism Academy in Lhasa is set to open branches in the Nyingchi and Ngari prefectures of the Tibet autonomous region with the aim of further extending the range of its educational programs, according to religious leaders.
The High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China could soon welcome its first students from overseas as it looks to raise the number of international exchanges, according to a senior faculty member.
Yuan Yonghai worked as a hair stylist, a real estate agent and an auto supplies salesman before he found his calling in China's growing Witkey world where Web users purchase services and information.
Flowers are not the only sign of life that come with the spring thaw, as the warmer weather has also brought a blossoming of tourism to China.
They say we in Hong Kong are a miserable lot. "They" as in the folks who prepared the latest UN-backed World Happiness Report, released just ahead of World Happiness Day on March 20.
Item from March 24, 1996, in China Daily: Vegetables are grown in greenhouses in the suburbs of Tongliao in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Authorities have started to demobilize 300,000 soldiers as part of military reform to strengthen combat capability.