'Angry Birds' find a cousin in ancient China
2011-04-27
Over-night fame of celebrity personators now enters the Web age. An obscure Chinese antique is now an Internet sensation, simply because of its stunning resemblance to the Angry Birds.
Mine bosses switch career paths amid industry reform
2011-04-26
Over the past few years, at least 58 mine bosses in Datong of north China's Shanxi province have abandoned their profitable mining businesses and channeled their money into agriculture and food processing sectors.
Residents move out from building under bridge
2011-04-19
A total of 36 residents living in the“increasingly dangerous building”in Shanxi's capital city, Taiyuan, will be resettled after media reports in March, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
Shanxi to raise electricity price
2011-04-15
China's coal-rich Shanxi province has gotten the green light to raise the on-grid power price, the 21st Business Herald reported Friday.
Death toll from scaffolding collapse rises to 7
2011-04-08
Death toll from a construction accident Thursday morning in North China's Shanxi province rose to seven after one seriously injured man died in hospital, local authorities said.
Floury flower buns
2011-04-05
As the saying goes, "China has the world's best flour-made food; and Shanxi is the home of China's flour-made food." Shanxi boasts more than a thousand kinds of flour-based food, and huamo is only one of the very many. The buns or mo, is simply a fancier hand-molded form of the familiar mantou.
