China remains tight-lipped about how a coal ship and its 25 crew were freed from Somali pirates yesterday. A ransom was reportedly paid, as the kidnappers claim and as has happened in previous hijackings, or maybe a rescue operation took place, as the Foreign Ministry says. Irrespective of what transpired, it is now clear that [...]

North Korea said on Tuesday it has detained an American man who illegally entered the country last week, following reports that a 28-year-old missionary from Arizona went to the communist nation on a mission to improve its human rights record….

Iranian authorities said on Monday that they were holding the bodies of five slain anti-government protesters, including the nephew of the opposition leader, in what appeared to be an attempt to prevent activists from using funerals as a platform for more demonstrations….

Yesterday, 24 consulate officials in Guangzhou from 16 countries started a 4-day tour to East Guangdong. In the first day’s visit to Shanwei and Shantou, many consulate officials were impressed by the two cities’ good environment and development prospective. Mr. Kiyomi Seno, Chief Consul of Japan in Guangzhou said “Shanwei has very good air and [...]

The super strong glass on which can stand seven people, the Shantou University students with new ideas, the thousand-year-old Kaiyuan temple and Guangji bridge…On the 2nd day of the consular tour to East Guangdong today, the consulate officials had a very close touch with Shantou and Chaozhou’s enterprises and culture.
Confucius once said “If you do [...]

On March 26, the consulate officials continued their visit in Chaozhou to see how the enterprises here turn local traditional craftmanship and folk art into their pillar industries — evening dress and ceramics production.
For over 90 percent of Guangdong’s export is made by Pearl River Delta area, not many people know that Chaozhou is an [...]

China’s top 10 international friends were honored for “making exceptional contributions to the country in the past 100 years”, at an awards ceremony on Tuesday.
The list of luminaries selected by Internet users included Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor who died during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the 1930s; and John Rabe, a [...]

I struggled to push back the lump in my throat. In front of me lay a slim book, behind a glass wall, mounted on a display board. The title, written across its black hardbound cover, now slightly faded and moth-eaten, Fere Naai Shudhu Ekjaan (One Never Came Back), was one my father would sometimes refer [...]

Tsinghua University student who spent two years in the army says she cannot wait to return to the military, despite her elite educational training.
Jia Na, 23, a third-year journalism and broadcasting student, decided to take time out from her studies two years ago.
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She has now returned to campus life, but said she wants to study [...]

Suburban angst is at the center of this debut novel, which looks beneath the surface of an unhappy family.Living Room,” Rachel Sherman’s bleak first novel, takes its title from the hang-out favored by the teens that populate the book. It is a clearing in the woods behind their Long Island high school equipped with a [...]