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HK to cancel postal remittance service to Canada

Hong Kong Post announced Monday that postal remittance service to Canada will cease with effect from April 1. A spokesperson of the Hong Kong Post told Xinhua that the cessation, which is made in accordance with a request by the Canada Post, will last unless there is new arrangement by the Canadian side. Such service to other countries and regions remain unchanged. Source:...

Farmers may have to find new jobs in drought-hit Yunnan

Reeling from one of the worst droughts in a century, Gao Dekun and his wife have nothing left to harvest from their farmland in the hills of Southwest China\'s Yunnan province. Gao, 48, a resident of Shiyang village in Zhangyi county, is now busy preparing a rice paddy to cultivate seedlings in order to ensure his family has food to eat. A girl in Panxian county, Guizhou province, picks up stalks of withered wheat that had been reaped by her parents on Sunday. [China...

Chinese education minister stresses school safety after knife attack

Chinese Minister of Education Yuan Guiren on Monday called for concerted efforts to ensure safety in primary and high schools, after Tuesday\'s school knife attack that left eight children dead and shocked the country. "There is no education if we cannot protect the lives of students," Yuan said at an event in Beijing to mark a national day of safety awareness among schoolchildren. He urged education authorities across the country to make school safety a priority and to work with...

Miners rescued after being trapped for 8 days in central China

Two miners were rescued alive Tuesday morning after being trapped for eight days since March 22 in a flooded coal mine in central China\'s Henan Province, local authorities said. Source:...

Another mine accident is just deja vu

Xiao Shihong (in brown jacket) and Luo Jiangxia console each other on Tuesday as they wait outside the Wangjialing Coal Mine where both their husbands are trapped. Yang Shizhong / China Daily Managers are accused of ignoring flood warnings ahead of Shanxi disaster. Hu Yinan reports from Xiangning. At 1:40 pm on Sunday, Xiao Shihong\'s world collapsed. That was the time her husband Wang Jiming and two brothers-in-law were killed in what could well be remembered as China\'s deadliest mine...

Beijing subway security checks upgraded

After a series of blasts in Moscow\'s subway, Beijing will comprehensively strengthen patrols on rail transit stations and prioritize the deployment of its patrol personnel at subway entrances, halls and security checkpoints in order to improve the subway security through cooperation with Beijing Subway Company, announced the Public Transportation Security Department under the Beijing Public Security Bureau on March 30 On the early morning of March 30, not only were all of the police dogs from...

First direct flight from N China\’s Taiyuan to Taiwan starts

Members of the crew of the flight from Taiyuan to Taiwan pose for a group photo before leaving for Taiwan at Taiyuan Wusu Airport in Taiyuan, north China\'s Shanxi Province, on Feb. 10, 2010. The first direct flight from Taiyuan to Taiwan, carrying 130 tourists, took off in Taiyuan on Wednesday morning. Taiyuan, Changchun, Nanning and Yantai have been added as regular cross-Strait terminals in the mainland, bringing the total number of mainland terminals to 31. (Xinhua/Yan Yan) 【1】...

News Analysis: China embraces summit diplomacy

Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the Nuclear Security Summit on April 12-13 in Washington, and the second summit of BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- in Brasilia on April 14-17, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday. It will be the beginning of China\'s new round of summit diplomacy. It is widely expected China, as a major developing nation, will play important roles in the summits and join the international community in meeting global challenges. CHINA\'S...

Crew safe after Chinese coal ship aground off Australia

All the crew members are safe after a Chinese coal ship ran aground off the eastern coast of Australia on Saturday, said Chinese Consul-general in Brisbane Ren Gongping on Sunday. Ren told Xinhua that the 230-meter-long bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1 ran aground about 70 km east of Great Keppel Island in Queensland State shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday. The vessel, carrying 950 tons of heavy fuel oil and 65,000 tons of coal, is bound for China. Ren said he had phoned the captain of the...

China\’s funeral industry accused of robbing the living to bury the dead

With China\'s traditional holiday for honoring the dead falling on Monday, throngs of people jostle along the 2-km road in Liudaokou village, Tianjin Municipality, where more than 100 wholesale funeral supply shops compete for business. "This urn is 170 yuan (24.9 U.S. dollars) wholesale, 1,000 yuan retail here. A retailer can sell it for 5,000 yuan in the city," says saleswoman Li Na, pointing at a plain red wood urn inscribed with two Chinese characters "bai fu", or a...