2010/1/3 0:00:00
Border police said Saturday that they broke up a gang of makeshift pirates who preyed on vessels filled with valuable metal waste that traveled between Japan and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province.Border inspection police said nine migrant workers from Anhui and Jiangxi provinces were hired by a ringleader. These migrant workers went inside the vessels, and transferred the metals into smaller boats. Th...
2010/1/3 0:00:00
China's Central Meteorological Station (CMS) on Sunday evening issued the third orange alert since the first one on Saturday, extending the warning against a strong cold wave and strong wind.
Temperature was expected to fall by 14 to 18 degrees Celsius from Sunday night to Tuesday in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province and the western parts in regions along the Yellow and...
2009/12/29 0:00:00
Legacy Wine and Spirits International Ltd. (OTCBB: LWSP) reports that the Company attended the Shanghai-Fujian Seafood Association (SFSA) dinner where Legacy's wines were the only wines featured at the seafood/wine pairing dinner on December 11, 2009. The SFSA provides up to 40% of the seafood consumed in Shanghai. The event provided an excellent opportunity to broaden the base of acceptan...
2009/12/29 0:00:00
A partial lunar eclipse can be observed in Xiamen on Jan. 2, 2010, according to the Fujian Provincial Astronomical Observatory. The partial eclipse will begin at 3:00am on the 2nd Jan, reach the maximum eclipse at 3: 23am and end at 3:56am. The whole process will last about one hour. It will be the first time that a partial lunar eclipse occurs on the second day of the New Year in ne...
2009/12/29 0:00:00
It was the most expensive matchmaking party ever held in Beijing. There were 21 single billionaires, 22 single women and an admission fee of 100,000 yuan.
Love has a price. But this much? That is the central question of a heated debate taking place among Chinese netizens on whether these moneyed romantics have gone too far.
The party took place on Sunday night in Beijing Jun Wang Fu, a luxury...
2009/12/28 0:00:00
A well has become a hot topic in a small north China town after it began gushing water at a scolding 104 degrees Celcius - despite the outdoor temperature being 17 degrees below freezing.
Water temperatures of hot-spring wells in Yanggao County, about 52 kilometers to the west of China's coal city Datong in northern Shanxi Province, normally range from 25 to 45 degrees Celcius.
This well was...
2009/12/28 0:00:00
Filming has started on the new television drama series "Stories of an Old Town" ("Gucheng Wangshi") at the Hengdian World Studios in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, Sina.com.cn reports.
The series stars actor Xing Jiadong as a wartime doctor. The role is a departure from the one Xing played in his previous television drama "Soldiers Sortie" in which he was a special-forces wannabe who compe...
2009/12/28 0:00:00
"Naked wedding," a popular catch phrase in China coined amid the background of skyrocketing property prices, reflects the reality of many young people in China today. It refers to a marriage without a house, a car, diamond ring, and fancy wedding ceremony – just a nine-yuan marriage certificate.
A recent online poll about "naked weddings" on Sohu.com that r...
2009/12/24 0:00:00
A couple in Xiamen, Fujian province, has fixed one day in a week as a "no fighting day".
Li Weixun, a native of Shenyang, Liaoning province, met Xiao Yan, a local of Xiamen, through the Internet in 2005.
Five months later, they tied the knot. Just a few months after their marriage, the couple started fighting over trivial issues.
"The fights were so frequent that it seemed absurd to stay t...
2009/12/24 0:00:00
According to the Changsha Commerce Bureau, for the first ten months of this year the total volumn of the retail sales for social consumer goods has reached 125.127 billion Yuan with an increase of 19.08% compared with that of previous years.
Statistics show that from January to September this year, the total volumn of the retail sales for social consumer goods i...