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News Photos Voice People BizChina Feature About us      Feature   :::::: Mid-autumn festival behind bars The bright full moon on Thursday night was the perfect occasion for millions of residents in this East China city to take to the open spaces with their families and eat moon cakes in celebration of the Mid-autumn festival. 12/09 12:31 :::::: Dream of Vietnam's coffee king "I always dream of building a well-known coffee trademark so that my country can export a large volume of processed coffee, not just green coffee beans," Vietnam's coffee king Dang Le Nguyen Vu told Xinhua. 12/09 10:25 :::::: Mid-autumn festival adds colors to HK Visiting lantern shows, observing the bright full moon and tasting moon cakes, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents walked to parks, seaside and streets to enjoy mid-autumn festival of the Chinese Lunar year that falls on Thursday. 11/09 00:09 :::::: Mid-autumn festival adds colors to HK Visiting lantern shows, observing the bright full moon and tasting moon cakes, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents walked to parks, seaside and streets to enjoy mid-autumn festival of the Chinese Lunar year that falls on Thursday. 11/09 23:19 :::::: Mid-Autumn Festival in Malaysia The happy atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival is very much in the air when you see varieties of mooncakes and colorful lanterns in shops in Malaysia's cities, towns and villages. 11/09 19:46 :::::: Beijingers take to tea baths For centuries, it has been a tradition of the Chinese people to drink tea. But now, more and more people in Beijing are making use of tea for a new purpose: taking a bath. Tea bathing has opened a new market for low quality and old tea. 10/09 09:38 :::::: Vietnam enjoys joyful atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival Vietnamese people are living in a joyful atmosphere of the forthcoming Mid-Autumn Festival as moon-cakes in vivid red boxes and various kinds of colorful toys crop up all over the country. 10/09 09:33 :::::: Thin tightrope leads Chinese brave to world best A misstep would mean certain death. The risk has shadowed Chinese ace high-wire walker Adili for at least 24 years but never ruins the five-time Guinness record holder's confidence to be the king on tightrope. 09/09 15:00 :::::: Feature: China mobilizes to save lives from suicide Six years ago, Dai Zhenyu's wife committed suicide while suffering from depression. Now he is a volunteer in a program to prevent others from taking their own lives. "If I had knew how to prevent suicide, my wife would not have died," said Dai, 39-year-old farmer from Baoding, north China's Hebei Province. 08/09 21:25 :::::: Passion flows on keyboards With the echoes of cheers in the West still ringing his ears, 21-year-old piano prodigy Lang Lang returned to Shanghai seven years after his last recital here, and encountered the same enthusiastic response at home. Performing before a more demographically mixed audience, Lang kept his cool as well as his passion in the Shanghai Grand Theater's 1,800-seat Lyric Theater. 08/09 10:51 :::::: Chinese central bank governor: too early to decide on revaluation of RMB "It is too early to reach a conclusion on whether the Renminbi's (RMB) value is undervalued or overvalued, and therefore it is unwise to make adjustments based on such an assumption," said Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China's Central Bank, the People's Bank, on Wednesday. 07/09 10:04 :::::: Chinese central bank governor: too early to decide on revaluation of RMB "It is too early to reach a conclusion on whether the Renminbi's (RMB) value is undervalued or overvalued, and therefore it is unwise to make adjustments based on such an assumption," said Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China's Central Bank, the People's Bank, on Wednesday. 04/09 21:25 :::::: Cash-hungry Zimbabweans sleep in bank queues The continued cash crisis in Zimbabwe is forcing men and women to sleep in bank queues to ensure that they secure funds the following morning. 04/09 03:33 :::::: Community jobs promise to ease unemployment pressure in China Zeng Jianfang, 29, a laid-off worker in Chengdu city of southwestern Sichuan province, has just found a new job in a community convenience store thanks to information offered by professional "job hunters", who were also previously laid-off. 03/09 21:24 :::::: Another Paradise hotel razed to ground in Kenyan port city Four tourist beach hotels in the Kenyan port city Mombasa were razed on Monday night in a mysterious fire that sent over 1,000 guests mostly from Europe fleeing for their dear lives. 03/09 00:26 :::::: China strives to control high congenital birth defect rate After two abortions because of fetal defects, Gao Wenlan, a farmer from north China's Shanxi province, was happy to have a healthy baby at the age of 36. Gao is a beneficiary of a congenital birth defect prevention program being carried out in China. 01/09 20:10 :::::: Chinese officials more responsive to needs of general public Chinese officials are more responsive to the needs of the general public, particularly the disadvantaged, and are trying hard to address problems of official corruption and rural poverty. 31/08 16:05 :::::: Feature: Legal assistance reaches more Chinese people As the Legal Assistance Center of Xiacheng District has offered to help, Hu Fang, a 33-year-old woman from Hangzhou, the capital of east China's Zhejiang province, finally felt strong enough to go through the divorce suit. 28/08 19:43 :::::: Feature: outside Beijing six-party talks venue As temperatures dropped Thursday morning in rain-soaked Beijing, the cool breeze seemed to have dispersed not only Wednesday's sultriness, but also the activity outside the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where the six-party talks on the nuclear issue of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have entered the second day. 28/08 15:47 :::::: Hong Kong star lovers fascinated by Mars Busy Hong Kong people laid aside their worries about job and making money temporarily Wednesday night and went outdoor to enjoy the mysterious red planet, Mars, as it came to the closest point to Earth in 60,000 years. 28/08 00:17 :::::: Feature: Tears of needy Chinese college students arouse social concern It is normally a happy occasion to be admitted to an institution of higher learning after years of painstaking study and highly competitive entrance examinations. 26/08 16:49 :::::: Rwandans vote for peace, stability, better life Getting up very early Monday morning, Umuliisa Clotilda dressed herself carefully in her best clothes, for she was going to vote in the same polling station with Rwandan incumbent President Paul Kagame in Kigali, capital of Rwanda. 25/08 02:53 :::::: Feature: Mugabe wins longest applause in SADC summit Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe stood up again to welcome the longest and warmest applause and hail from the floor of the official opening ceremony of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 2003 summit opened here on Monday. 25/08 21:51 :::::: Moscow air show winds up under tight security The sixth international aerospace show wound up Sunday evening after six days of exciting events. The show helped the Zhukovsky airfield, the venue of the exhibition, resume its fame and popularity among international aviation companies and specialists as well as hundreds of thousands of visitors fascinated by the display of over 200 aircraft and various military equipment. 24/08 02:02 :::::: Feature: Tanzania in golden days Tanzania's Golden Tulip, an Indian Ocean seaside hotel, found itself in golden days, expecting the presence of 14 southern African heads of state and government or their representatives two days later to discuss regional co-development. 23/08 18:43 :::::: Chinese outraged over death caused by Japanese chemical weapons Residents of this northeast China city Friday vociferously condemned Japanese war crimes and expressed their anger after a local man, Li Guizhen, died after being infected by World War II-era mustard gas left by retreating Japanese troops. 22/08 22:51 :::::: HK financial secretary strives for public understanding "I had fears that the 80 percent duty we collected on wines is going to be the hardest question I face in the budget," Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Henry Tang made the remarks Friday before elaborating on how to strike for public understanding of his policies. 22/08 19:42 :::::: Feature: Vietnam to promote Internet use in walks of life Prior to 1997, Vietnamese people hardly imaged that several years later they could sit either in their own room or be packed like sardines in a poky Internet cafe, with their fingers dancing on keyboards, and eyes glued to monitors, doing so many things. 21/08 10:43 :::::: Feature: Baghdadis ask why, after truck bombing of UN headquarters Al-Obaidi is working at Kindee Training Hospital, 10 km away from the site of the blast which rocked the United Nations headquarters in the Canal Hotel, Baghdad, on Tuesday. 21/08 13:16 :::::: Prisoners trapped in Bangladeshi jails without trial Some 7,800 poor people remain trapped in Bangladeshi jails without trial for one to five years, due to archaic legal procedures and their inability to hire defence lawyers. 20/08 19:15

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