Tea serves as the main social lubricant at the annual session of China's parliament, allowing the nearly 3,000 hand-picked delegates in attendance an opportunity to sit, chat, and network.
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Sixteen Tibetan exiles arrested after they attempted to storm the Chinese Embassy in Nepal's capital earlier this week will remain in jail without trial for 90 days, officials said.
Katmandu police chief Ganesh Chettri said the sentence was ordered by the chief district officer under the public security act.
There’s more to Haikou than coconut trees and Wenchang chicken, as Yeoh Siew Hoon and her travel buddies find out in the first part of their journey to trace their roots. Photos by Willy FooWhen. you’ve got a mission such as the one we had set ourselves – visit three villages in 24 hours, actually it was more like 12 hours – you need a good, able and patient guide.
Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China's frigid northeast, state media said Friday.
The China Daily newspaper reported that the animals were kept in small metal cages at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province and only given a meager diet of chicken bones.
China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that includes training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the current crop of mainland journalists. The South China Morning Post reported Thursday that Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, said some reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they hadn't been properly trained.
China's inflation spiked higher in February, adding to pressure on Beijing to prevent overheating and keep the recovery in the world's third-largest economy on track. Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in February over a year earlier, up from January's 1.5 percent increase, the National Bureau of Statistics reported Thursday.
China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Wednesday it was investing $5.8 billion in a Chinese bank as part of a plan to develop mobile phone banking and business services.
A court in southern China has upheld a death sentence for a Nigerian man convicted of dealing heroin in the industrial center of Shenzhen.
Osonwa Okey Noberts was convicted by a Shenzhen court in June of buying 13 pounds (six kilograms) of heroin from traffickers and supplying it to lower-level dealers, the official China Daily newspaper reported Thursday.
Hong Kong's top lawyers and Chinese officials are trading blows over the legality of a new campaign for democracy in the former British colony that frames an upcoming special election as a de facto referendum on political reform. When Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, Beijing continued to deny democracy to this wealthy financial hub of 7 million people.
Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda. Police have long tried to shush and isolate potential activists, usually starting with a low-key warning, perhaps over a meal or a cup of tea. Now, the country's troublemakers are openly blogging and tweeting their stories about "drinking tea" with the police, allowing the targeted citizens to bond and diluting the intimidation they feel.
The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region. China shot back, accusing the Tibetan spiritual leader of using deceptions and lies to distort its policy in the region.
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