China’s National Day holiday,otherwise known as the October week,is an annual seven-day public holiday.This is the longest public holiday other than Chinese New Year,which typically falls around February.The People’...
Many foreign public figures like Dogu Perincek from Turkey and Kawa Mahmoud from Iraq have been regular visitors to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China,and have seen the changes in the once impoverishe...
Two Mongolian horses, Altay (left) and Cherlen, arrive at the border city of Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on February 12. The horses are a gift by Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegd...
Children’s Day, which falls on June 1, is a time for celebrating the younger generation around the world, but in China this year it is tinged with sadness. The 8.0-magnitude earthquake that ripped through Sichuan Pro...
China’s sovereign wealth fund is further sharpening its investment strategy to outmaneuver financial markets The April deal between the China Investment Corp.(CIC)and the U.S. company J.C.Flowers & Co.LLC. to set up ...
The design of Beijing’s Olympicswimming stadium is innovative inits use of sustainable technology and building materials, but most of all it is a building that looks like no other in the
I want people to visit me in Beijing. I love showing friends from home my hutong neighborhood, and I hope one day to show off to my parents the Chinese I've learned (which sounds mighty impressive, if you know nothing).
The Chinese nation woke up on April 1 to a list of new items earmarked for consumption tax and another list increasing existing taxes on other items. One of the more interesting items on this new tax list that caught ...