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Staff Reporter | Apr 03, 2013 11:13 AM EDT
New Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan's choice of attire has sparked a flurry of excitement over an independent homegrown label, an unusual phenomenon in a country where political figures are more frumpy than fashionable and wives usually shy away from the spotlight. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 03, 2013 11:10 AM EDT
(Reuters) - Chinese authorities reported four new cases on Tuesday of a strain of bird flu previously unknown in humans that has already killed two people, taking the total of known cases to seven. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 03, 2013 11:06 AM EDT
BEIJING - Rescue teams have found 59 dead bodies at the site a massive landslide in Tibet and two dozen more workers are still feared buried in the rubble, Chinese state media said on Tuesday. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 03, 2013 11:03 AM EDT
A woman and her daughter are frightened while ducks approach closely for food at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2013 06:49 PM EDT
China has vowed to build 42 transport hubs by the end of 2015, with at least one in every province, autonomous region and municipality. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2013 02:01 PM EDT
China reported on Tuesday that four more people in one province were seriously ill with a bird flu virus new to humans, following two previous deaths. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2013 01:04 PM EDT
A working staff dressed up like a spider-man interacts with audience in the opening ceremony of the Canton Tower Spider Walk in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, April 2, 2013. The 1,000-meter-long Spider Walk locates at the 168-meter to 334.4-meter height of Canton Tower, with a transparent floor made up of 90 pieces of glasses. Visitors would get a general view of the scenery of Guangzhou City from the Spider Walk. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2013 12:55 PM EDT
A Boeing 777-300ER flying from Beijing arrives at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, March 31, 2013. Air China launched its second direct flight between Beijing and New York on Sunday, marking the company's biggest expansion in the U.S. There will be 11 flights plying between Beijing and New York each week and all of them are new Boeing 777-300ERs. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2013 12:32 PM EDT
China's financial capital, Shanghai, activated an emergency plan Tuesday that calls for heightened monitoring of suspicious flu cases following the recent deaths of two men from a lesser-known strain of bird flu. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 01, 2013 02:18 PM EDT
Health officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it's unlikely that it can spread easily among humans. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 01, 2013 11:48 AM EDT
Catholics in China participated in activities to celebrate Easter over the weekend. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 01, 2013 11:44 AM EDT
"Based on our overall measuring results in past years, water quality not only remained normal, but in some cases has even improved," said Li Lei, deputy environmental bureau chief of Lanzhou, last week. read more
Staff Reporter | Apr 01, 2013 11:04 AM EDT
Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said it wasn't clear how they were infected but there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
