Sitting in the Pearl River Delta, the city of Dongguan in Guangdong province has become a magnet for ambitious young entrepreneurs to set up businesses, said Mo Haotang, founder of the World Dongguan Entrepreneurs Convention, which ran from Dec 13 to 14.
AALSMEER, Netherlands - Every day from dawn, a fleet of forklift trucks carries crates of roses, tulips, chrysanthemums and 22,000 other flower varieties through the world's biggest flower market.
MOSCOW - Alarmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise a means of "directing", rather than banning, the popular music.
WASHINGTON - Just 7 years old, Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin was picked up by US authorities with her father and other migrants this month in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. Some seven hours later, she was put on a bus to the nearest Border Patrol station but soon began vomiting. By the end of the two-hour drive, she had stopped breathing.
JOHANNESBURG - They call her the "young miracle". A baby who was admitted to an Ebola treatment center just six days after birth is now recovered from the virus.
YANGON - Ear cleaners, roadside plumbers and typewriters for hire: just a sample of the antiquated jobs found on the pavements of Yangon's Pansodan Street, where old-world businesses still find customers.
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations envoy for Yemen called on Friday for the urgent deployment of UN monitors to observe the implementation of a cease-fire in the strategic port city of Hodeidah and the withdrawal of rival forces - a potential breakthrough in Yemen's four-year civil war.
CAIRO - Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of an "exceptionally well-preserved" tomb belonging to a Fifth Dynasty royal priest at Saqqara Necropolis near Giza's pyramids.
SYDNEY - Australia has decided to formally recognize west Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but won't move its embassy until there's a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Saturday.
ANKARA - The European Union's foreign policy chief on Saturday asked Turkey to forgo any unilateral military action in Syria, where Ankara has threatened a fresh offensive against a Kurdish militia.
COLOMBO - Leader of Sri Lanka's the United National Party (also known as UNP) Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was sacked from the post of prime minister in late October, was sworn in as the prime minister by President Maithripala Sirisena again on Sunday, ending a nearly two-month political crisis which erupted after his surprising dismissal.
Shangri-La Hotel, Changchun in Jilin province kicked off its exciting Christmas season with a charity Christmas lighting ceremony in early December.
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