日期：2009-06-11 The recent changes to China's visa policy is aimed at ensuring a safe environment for the Olympics and not to limit foreign visitors, says a senior Foreign Ministry official. The application procedure for Chinese visas was changed in late April. Und... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The 150-km-long urban corridor in Sichuan province will be expanded to encourage millions of homeless people in the quake-hit regions to move to the urban areas, Yin Qiang, in charge of the province's urban planning reconstruction, said yesterday. T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 A university in Guangzhou has banned the keeping of dogs as pets on campus. The ban has rankled some students who complain it is an infringement of their rights. Jinan University, which has hundreds of overseas Chinese students, imposed the ban last... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 The May 12 earthquake has cost at least 372,000 urban residents in Sichuan their jobs, raising the number of jobless in the province to more than 700,000, a top provincial official said yesterday. The quake has deprived 1.15 million farmers of the m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Beijing today with one of the top issues on his agenda being Chinas increasing global role. In an interview last week with New York-based journalists from major Chinese media organizations Ban... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Up to 30,000 people took part in the mass action in Weng'an county of Guizhou province on Saturday, torching government buildings and smashing and burning cars. In the latest update, Xinhua said yesterday that trouble began when about 300 people, pr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 It takes millions of dollars to have lunch with someone who controls billions. A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction on eBay. Zhao... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is impressed by China's relief work in the areas hit by the May 12 earthquake. Rice met with quake survivors and toured a relief camp in Dujiangyan, one of the worst hit areas, during her four-hour visit to Sic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Mickey Mouse and his friends could be welcoming visitors to the city's own Disneyland as early as 2012, a Hong Kong newspaper reported over the weekend. The theme park, with an estimated cost of 40 billion yuan ($5.8 billion), will be located on the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 President Hu Jintao has pledged China will make greater contributions in the global battle against climate change. Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, called on developed countries to step up emission-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 A hearing on ticket prices for a new airport express line, set to open next month, will be held on Wednesday, the Beijing Morning Post reported yesterday. The new light rail system will connect downtown Beijing with the Capital International Airport... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 To run or not to run: that is the question. Runner Fan, nickname of Fan Meizhong, has created a controversy because he ran out of the classroom leaving his students behind when the May 12 quake struck. The country's top education authorities now say... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Deng Linlin holds back tears when she pulls off a move; she is wet-eyed when she misses one. And she is closest to crying when she disappoints her coach and herself. She walks barefooted on mats, and is masterful and delicate in her form as an athle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Five years ago, SARS, showed the authorities the benefits of transparency in reporting and handling a health crisis. In a similar vein, this year's outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has forced both central and local health authorities... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Tropical storm Fengshen brought more rain and misery to southern China yesterday, throwing life out of gear in the economic hubs of Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Fengshen, downgraded from a typhoon after killing hundreds of people in the Philippines, hit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Lu Wen, a social worker left here yesterday on a mission: to cheer up the people of Dujiangyan. Lu is among a team of 13 - the first of its kind in the country - set up to help quake victims rebuild communities within their new homes - rows of prefa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 It takes the cake. Perhaps it changes the rules of the building game too. A rotating building. Or, a building that changes shape, call it what you like. That's the idea architect David Fisher came up with after taking in an expansive view of Manhatt... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 If youre an Olympic and Yao Ming fan and a collector, here's news for you. The jumbo bed the 7-foot-6-inch giant will sleep on in the Olympic Village will come under the hammer after the Games. The NBA star's bed is just one of the about 200 million... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 Travel agencies in Beijing are for the first time preparing half-day sightseeing tours of the capital for athletes, trainers and journalists during the Olympic Games. Usually, a one-day tour is the shortest available to tourists. A municipal tourism... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-11 They were long thought to be easy prey for predators. But at least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon: claws that can sprout out on demand to fight off attackers. US researchers on Monday reported that when threatened thes... 阅读全文>>