The company that owns the Eastern Star ship, which sank in the Yangtze River Monday night, has been assisting with rescue work and is getting in touch with the families of crew members. Our company's people have gone to the front line in Hubei to ass...
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After nearly two hours floating on the Yangtze river, one survivor who successfully escaped from the capsized boat has been rescued in Hubei's neighbouring Hunan province. A local villager who works at a sand and gravel wharf next to the river recall...
Hundreds of soldiers from the Chinese Navy, as well as students from the Naval University of Engineering in Wuhan city, Hubei province, are involved in the rescue mission for the Eastern Star ship, which sank in the Yangtze River Monday night. Navy d...
The number of Chinese tourists is growing rapidly, and every year the numbers going overseas break new tourism records worldwide. For those travelling to the U-S, their number one choice of destination is Los Angeles, and when they visit, they don't...
An official from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government says it will closely monitor South Korea's MERS situation, as sustained human to human infections may have occurred. Food and Health Secretary Ko Wing-man says that despite all o...
On Wednesday morning, a group of psychological relief counselors from Beijing, Hubei province and other places in China arrived at the Hubei Jianli People's Hospital, where the injured are receiving treatment. The 27-member team included 12 people fr...
China' Anhui, a province close to Shanghai, announced its latest property market policy guidance. The guidance calls off all existing market curbs. The province will provide better compensation of land for shanty town residents, and will halt new con...
Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday continued to direct the Eastern Star rescue operation. Li observed work near the capsized ship, saying 100 percent efforts should be put into the rescue work if there is even a glimpse of hope of finding survivors. Chi...
While frantic efforts to find survivors continues, those few pulled to safety are now going through intense shock and grief. Two of them retraced the events of the tragic night. 43-year-old Zhang Hui is one of only a handful of survivors. The tragic...
A devastated landscape - homes and lives splintered. In Hunan province's central region, heavy rainstorms triggered landslides and flooding. Roads and houses now lie underwater. In one of the province's hardest-hit villages in the city of Linxiang, t...
Homegrown talent who have come back from overseas, are now the backbone of start-up businesses. That's as the government cuts red tape, makes things easier for smaller companies, and encourages what it calls grassroots entrepreneurship and mass innov...
From 1933 to 1941, Shanghai took in around 30,000 Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust in Europe. And this week, a group of Jewish refugees and their descendants are attending an international conference about this period of time and revisiting the...
BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers are cutting into the hull of a cruise ship that capsized late on Monday, in an escalated effort to find survivors believed to be trapped inside. Rescue workers are cutting into the hull of the cruise ship Eastern...
