Archaeologists have claimed to have discovered a rare bronze head with two faces and dating back to over 3,000 years, in a tomb complex in China's Hubei province. The sculpture featuring huge eyes, protruding cheekbones and horns has been unearthed from the Yejiashan Graveyard in Suizhou city, Xinhua reported. The graveyard consists of a cluster of tombs believed to be related to the nobles ...
Torrential rain triggers urban flooding in China
Witnessing its heaviest rainfall of the year since Thursday, the Kunming city in China's Yunnan province is grappling with an urban flooding. Cars and taxis have become submerged in the city and more than 200 inundated buses have been rendered unusable. The drainage system has failed, resulting in floods in many areas of the city, Xinhua reported Friday. Water level on the nearby Panlong river ...
China to Lift Bank Lending Rate Controls
China is lifting some controls on bank lending rates, in a step toward a more market-oriented financial system. China's central bank said Friday it was canceling the "floor" on interest rates to be paid by borrowers, so that financial institutions can set the rates themselves. The change will go into effect on Saturday. A floor will remain for mortgage loans. The central ...
Three dragonfly species discovered in China
Scientists have discovered three dragonfly species, indigenous to China, inhabiting the Shennongjia nature reserve, a researcher said Friday. "The three new Cephalaeschna species are found nowhere else in the world but central China," Zhang Haomiao, an aquatic animal researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying by Xinhua. He said the species can be "used" to monitor ...
Ancient Buddha statue can be seen again
An ancient Buddha statue in China is all set to get visitors again after archaeologists completed a maintenance project, a media report said Friday. Built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the statue is expected to reopen to visitors in early August in Gansu province, reports Xinhua. Work on the giant Buddha lasted two years. The maintenance started in June 2011 as the Buddha statue's head was ...
Large gold deposit discovered in China
A mineral deposit with gold reserves totalling 50 tonnes has been discovered in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said Friday. The deposit was discovered at the Dunde Iron Mine in Hejing county after six years of exploration, said Zeng Xiaogang, head of the region's geology and mineral resources bureau. The deposit is believed to have a potential economic value of ...
China eclipsing U.S. as super power but not in popularity finds global poll
More number of people across globe believes China will surpass the United States as the world's pre-eminent superpower, a new poll has found. The survey conducted by the Pew Center revealed that about 47 percent of those surveyed in 39 countries said China will surpass or already has surpassed the U.S. In only six countries majority of respondents said that China would never surpass the U.S., ...
Sanya among candidates for 2013 Amazing China election
The "2013 Amazing China" election is the only Chinese city ranking based on the votes of expats in China. Votes are cast by expats in a wide array of professions and social ranks, ranging from Nobel Laureates and Chinese Friendship Award recipients to foreign employees based in ...
New rise in Chinese film market vicissitudes
China's film industry received a handsome report card in the first half of this year, when domestically-made movies took up a whopping 62 percent of the country's total box office revenue.While the fortunes of China's box offices and film producers have ebbed and flowed throughout the industry's history of over 100 years, developing audience demand, regulatory and market ...
Chinas smartphone shipments to grow 6
Beijing - China's mobile phone shipments registered at 97 million units in Q1 2013, up 15% compared with the same period in 2012, while China's smartphone shipments totaled 78 million units in Q1 2013, with a growth of 117% compared with the same period in 2012. International Data Corporation (IDC) believes such a high-speed growth of China's smartphone market would not be ...
Beijing takes lesson from fatal downpour
The beginning of the major flood season on Saturday has put Beijing authorities on high alert a year after the deadliest downpour in six decades killed 77 ...
Hong Kong marks 40 years since death of martial arts icon Bruce Lee
Hong Kong An exhibition in Hong Kong is celebrating the life of Bruce Lee, 40 years after the death of cinema's first martial arts hero.Lee helped put Hong Kong on the movie world map, and his films acted as a bridge between the cultures of East and West. The Heritage Museum is displaying more than 600 of the actor and filmmaker's personal items, including the tracksuit Lee wore in ...
S China reports 37 dengue fever cases
Thirty-seven people have been confirmed as having contracted dengue fever in Zhongshan City in south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said on Saturday.As of Friday afternoon, all 37 patients were found in five localities in the city's Huangpu Township since July 16, and it is likely that more cases will be reported, the Guangdong provincial disease control and prevention ...
Tainted rice scandal affects farmers in C China
tainted rice . Li Fangming, a farmer from the city of Yiyang, has yet to sell any of his early summer rice. "I heard about the cadmium scandal earlier this year, but I never expected that its impact would be so great," Li said. Three mills in Hunan's city of Zhuzhou were ordered to recall their products and suspend business operations in March after ...
China faces nightmare if slowdown is not controlled
Li Keqiang , who are trying to manage a slowdown in growth to reduce a reliance on the investment that has made the country the factory to the ...
Mainland tourists spend $15.68 billion in Taiwan
/enpproperty--> TAIPEI -- Tourists from the Chinese mainland have spent $15.68 billion in Taiwan since 2008 when the island opened up its tourism market to mainland travelers. Over the past five years, people from Taiwan spent about $27.7 billion on the mainland, according to figures released by tourism authorities from both sides. At a cross-Strait tourism exchange conference held in ...
Chinese cities promote eco-friendly urbanization
Guizhou province , mayors and other senior city officials took part in a heated debate about sustainable development in their cities. "We are not worrying about the expansion and development of our cities, but the speed of expansion, which may be a bit too fast and may not be sustainable," said Yao Yingjie, deputy mayor of Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, ...
Taiwan protesters demand justice for dead corporal
Thousands of protesters rallied in Taipei Saturday to demand justice for a corporal who died after allegedly being abused in the military, in a case that sparked anger across ...
Citizenship for sale Tennis star in Taiwan causes a political stir
A Taiwanese tennis championHsieh Su-wei tapped into her homeland"s deep political insecurities after word spread that she was willing to become a citizen of China. That is, if she gets the right endorsement ...
Beijing launches group rental restrictions after house found shared by 25 people
BEIJING'S housing watchdog yesterday announced stricter rental rules to crack down on rampant leasing by groups. The new rules state that each room in an apartment can accommodate only two tenants now with a minimum per-capita living space of at least 5 square meters. Landlords are now banned from subdividing apartments into smaller rooms and renting them out, which would earn them ...
Guangdong cancels plans for nuclear fuel processing plant after protest
A planned facility to process nuclear fuel in Jiangmen of Guangdong province has been canceled, following opposition by a majority of residents, the local government said on Saturday. The 229-hectare Longwan Industrial Park project, which had been scheduled in Heshan, a county-level city in Jiangmen of the Pearl River Delta region, would have featured facilities for uranium conversion, ...
China detains city workers after fruit seller dies
BEIJING -; Chinese state media say six urban management officers in south-central China have been detained by police on suspicion of intentionally harming others after a watermelon vendor died in a conflict with the city code ...
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