On Jan 25, 1944, 24-year-old Robert Eugene Oxford and seven other crew members were on a routine supply mission, flying their B-24 Liberator heavy bomber from Kunming in Yunnan province to Chabua, India. They never arrived.
With competition between China's bike-sharing companies growing even hotter, rivals are rolling out new models to tempt customers.
China and Singapore pledged on Monday to cooperate on trade and regional infrastructure projects as the two countries try to speed up talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
The birth of a giant panda cub at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Monday was toasted in Japan.
Having just thawed out from the Beijing winter freeze, a friend and I set out for the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in early April for what we thought would be a lovely spring holiday full of sunny strolls around lakes and satisfying hikes up mountains in northwestern China. What we had not imagined doing was pushing our hire car along an ice-covered road as snow swirled around us. This would in fact turn out to be one of our main outdoor activities as the unseasonable dump made those lakes and mountains impenetrable.
Item from June 13, 1988, in China Daily: Engineers are installing drilling equipment at an oilfield in Henan province. Such equipment, made in China, is now operational in three oil and gas fields.
Airline freight shipping was a major highlight of the cooperative agreements made by China and Luxembourg on Monday as Premier Li Keqiang met with visiting Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
The United States' best-known farm in China, Kimberley Farms in Iowa, received a group of leading think tank researchers from Beijing for the first time on Sunday, after becoming an attraction for Chinese visitors since President Xi Jinping's visit five years ago.
For Harry Stine, a farm boy who became an inventor, businessman and the richest billionaire in Iowa by licensing his genetically engineered corn and soybean seeds to multinational companies, there are a lot of reasons he has many connections with China.
China has established its highest military award, the Order of August 1. The selection process for the first group of winners has begun.
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