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Shanghai Bids Farewell to Historic Dock
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| With the explosion of two buildings in the wee hours Thursday, the last vestiges of the 142-year-old Shiliupu Dock disappeared from its original site on the Shanghai waterfront. Once China's largest passenger transport facility, the old dock has been relocated and an upscale aquatic tourism center will be built on the original location. |
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3 More Explosions in Deadly Shaanxi Coal Mine
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| Thirty-five bodies of the 166 miners now believed to have been killed in Sunday's explosion had been brought out of the tunnels before three more blasts occurred early Thursday. No new casualties were reported at the Chenjiashan Coal Mine, where recovery operations have been moving slowly owing to high temperatures, poor ventilation and high gas levels in the shafts. |
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New Uniforms for the People's Army
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| From December 1, Chinese soldiers have got new winter uniforms that have been improved in terms of materials, color, pattern and functionality. The design of military uniforms will increasingly stress professional characteristics, functionality and bearing to follow international practice. |
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Hu Urges End to Bias Against AIDS Patients
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| President Hu Jintao called on all citizens to show care and love for people with HIV/AIDS and to eliminate any forms of discrimination against them. On Tuesday, just ahead of World AIDS Day, Hu shook hands with AIDS patients at a Beijing hospital, paid tribute to medical workers and called on all levels of government and the Communist Party to help stop the spread of AIDS. |
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Two Top Banks May Go Public Next Year
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| The Bank of China and China Construction Bank -- two of the country's Big Four state-owned banks and both long expected to seek stock market listings -- hope to launch initial public offerings sometime in 2005, presidents of the banks revealed on Tuesday. The two banks have spent the past year reforming their corporate governance systems and improving their financial standing, and are now negotiating with potential investors to buy stakes and help them streamline their operations. |
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Asian Leaders Meet in Vientiane
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| The 10th ASEAN Summit opened in the Lao capital Monday morning, while leaders of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea discussed East Asian cooperation ahead of their ASEAN+3 meetings. |
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Electricity-hungry China Faces Power Glut by 2007
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| Even as it combats the power shortage that has plagued the nation since late 2002, China must now crack down on excessive investment in power plant construction. A senior energy official says that last year, construction was begun illegally on power plants capable of generating 30 percent of China's total existing capacity. The country is looking at a possible power glut by 2007. |
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25 Dead, 141 Trapped in Shaanxi Coal Mine Blast
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| An explosion tore through a coal mine in Shaanxi Province, northwest China Sunday, killing at least 25 miners and trapping 141 others. Communications with those still underground have been lost and rescue teams have been unable to reach them because of high gas concentrations in the tunnels, where ventilation systems were damaged in the blast. Meanwhile, 16 officials in Hebei Province are being prosecuted for covering up the number of fatalities in a coal mine blast that took place there in June. |
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Regulations Passed to Prevent Virus Spread from Labs
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| A new set of regulations taking effect Saturday will prohibit Chinese lab directors from allowing experiments on risky pathogenic microbes without approval. |
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Suspect Seized for Killing 8 Students
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| A 21-year old man who killed eight students and injured four others was seized at 4 PM Friday by local police in Ruzhou, a city in central China's Henan Province. The victims are all schoolboys aged 16 to 17. |
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