A Welsh folk singer won first prize on Saturday in the Chinese Song UK contest, in which Britons who are not native speakers of the language belted out traditional songs in Mandarin and Cantonese.
China published its first white paper on its Antarctic explorations on Monday, pledging to boost its capabilities in the exploration and study of the continent.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, congratulated Wu Den-yih on his election as new chairman of Kuomintang on Saturday.
President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Saturday to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on his re-election to a second four-year term as Iran's president.
China and Vietnam will expand intelligence sharing and case investigations in the fight against rampant cross-border trafficking of women, a senior Ministry of Public Security official said.
In recent weeks, Weng Zhanxuan has faced a dilemma as he struggled to make a decision between his future and his family's traditional trade; making sets of balls in which several rotatable layers are carved from a single piece of ivory.
Elephant tusks evolved from teeth, giving the species an evolutionary advantage. They serve a variety of purposes: digging, lifting objects, gathering food, stripping bark from trees and defense.
Ivory carving is one of the unique charms of Chinese carving, and has a history of thousands of years. The heyday occurred during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
In the 1930s, the Great Depression struck hard in the United States. Unemployment shot up yearly from 1929 until it hit a shocking 23.75 percent in 1933. Hunger and homelessness spread through the cities.
Item from May 22, 1996, in China Daily: Postal deliveries are set to get faster as China Postal Airlines gets its first aircraft off the ground.
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