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Beijing, Mar. 5 (ANI): Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday said his government will draft policies this year to boost development in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as other Tibetan-inhabited areas.
“We will focus on formulating and implementing policies for economic and social development in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Tibetan ethnic areas in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and [...]

Washington, August 21 (ANI): Recent archaeological discoveries from far-flung corners of China are forcing scientists to reconsider the origins of ancient Chinese civilization.

A group of articles by Science news writer Andrew Lawler have explored how, over several millennia, China evolved [...]

Washington, July 28 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have shown that when the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, more than 23 percent of the pandas’ habitat was destroyed in the area.

The Sichuan region is designated as one of 25 global hotspots for biodiversity conservation.

Home to more than 12,000 species [...]

Beijing, July 10 (ANI): A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China Thursday evening, killing one person, injuring at least 336 and collapsing more than 18,000 homes, state media said.

The magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province’s Yao’an county, damaged another 30,000 homes, the Xinhua news agency said.

Thirty people suffered severe injuries, while the other 305 were [...]

Beijing, July 8 (ANI): Officials in Sichuan province’s Meishan city have been banned from taking lovers outside marriage, as well as sleeping during meetings.

According to the China Daily, a guideline titled “Behavior Standards for Officials of Meishan After Eight Hours of Work” was released with four other directions designed to strengthen discipline among county-level or [...]

Melbourne, July 3 (ANI): In a rare case of a predator hunted by its prey, a toad has for the first time been captured on camera while eating a whole snake in just five minutes.

A tourist at Qingcheng Mountain Park in Sichuan, central China, took the picture of this instance [...]

London, June 24 (ANI): In the hope of finding a cure for daughter’s psychiatric problems, a woman in China boiled a man’s head in a soup, local newspaper reported.

Back in 2008, Lin Zongxiu, from the southwestern province of Sichuan had heard that soup made with a man’s head could help cure her daughter who had [...]

Beijing – China’s health authorities confirmed a seventh case of swine flu as a Chinese-American man tested positive to the new strain of the H1N1 influenza virus, state media reported Saturday.
The 65-year-old man, whose name was given as Li, returned to Beijing from New York Thursday aboard an Air China flight, the official news [...]

New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): Lin Hao is no longer camera shy, for the youngest of China’s “quake heroes” to emerge from last year’s catastrophe is filming for a third television role.

The 10-year-old, who had rescued two fellow students from classroom rubble after being left with a head injury that required a hair transplant, is [...]

New Delhi, April 29 (ANI): A hen, in Longchang county, Sichuan province, has given up the desire to live ever since its romance with a rooster came to end.

Zhou Huiying got a rooster to give company to his hen in January. hey lived happily and shared food with one another.

However, after [...]

Chengdu (China), Apr.19 (ANI): China has announced plans to construct a new breeding center for giant pandas around May to replace the former quake-leveled habitat in southwestern Sichuan Province.

Xinhua, the official news agency quoted officials as saying that the new China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center will be located in the Huangcaoping area, about [...]

London, Apr 11 (ANI): Tibetan farmers discontented with the Chinese rule have refused to sow their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing.

Chinese officials are so anxious at the latest action of farmers that they have sent in troops from the People’s Liberation Army to work with them or in their place if [...]

New Delhi, March 28 (ANI): A group of four crooks was arrested by the Chinese police when one of its members sought cops’ help, following a fight over money after the robbers had looted a woman.

They robbed the woman on a street in Nanbu county, Sichuan province, of 160 yuan (23 dollars).

Given that [...]

London, Mar 21 (ANI): Loved up Chinese couples certainly don’t care about the ongoing recession – they are spending as much as 1,000 pounds just to be showered in clouds of butterflies as part of the finale to their wedding.ccording to Chinese butterfly farmers, despite economic crunch business has [...]

Zurich – During 2008, 240,500 people were killed by natural and man-made disasters and it one of the “costliest catastrophe years” ever for insurance companies, a study showed Tuesday.
The research done for Swiss Re, the re-insurer, said there were 311 “catastrophic events” last year, of which 137 were considered natural disasters. The total direct damage [...]

New Delhi, Mar 3 (ANI): The Chinese Government has dismissed a claim by “Tibet independence” groups that the Chengdu police has shot a young Tibetan who attempted to set himself on fire in Sichuan province on Friday.

The 24-year-old man, identified as Tashi, had attempted self-immolation using inflammables while holding a portrait of the Dalai Lama [...]

Washington, March 3 (ANI): A new study has shown that mudslides that followed the earthquake that struck China on May 12 last year, may cause a carbon-dioxide (CO2) release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion.

The magnitude-7.9 Wenchuan quake was followed by many aftershocks in [...]

Dharamsala, Mar 1 (ANI): Hundreds of exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala participated in a candlelight march on Saturday to pay homage to a martyr of the Tibetan freedom struggle who had self-immolated himself during a prayer festival in China.

The monk was shot dead by the Chinese police.

Exiled Tibetans said they were concerned about the incident.

“A [...]

Dharamsala, Mar 1 (ANI): Hundreds of exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala participated in a candlelight march on Saturday to pay homage to a martyr of the Tibetan freedom struggle who had self-immolated himself during a prayer festival in China.

The monk was shot dead by the Chinese police.

Exiled Tibetans said they were concerned about the incident.

“A [...]

Beijing, Feb.28 (ANI): A Tibetan monk was shot by Chinese police after he set himself on fire

Pro-Tibet activists in London and Hong Kong reported that the monk, called Tabe and said to be in his twenties, walked out of Kirti monastery, an important seat of [...]