HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds in China's southern city of Guangzhou protested outside government offices on Monday, opposing plans for a large garbage ...
GUANGZHOU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tucked into a grimy building in Guangzhou, a small band of Chinese master carvers chip away at ivory tusks with ...
China's cricket chiefs are so keen to make a mark in next year's Asian Games at home in Guangzhou that they have sent the women's team to train in India. A 15-member squad is currently learning the nuances of a sport unfamiliar ...
Hong Kong has approved a controversial 8.4 billion dollar high-speed rail link with the mainland, an official said Wednesday, part of a bid to boost ties with its cross-border neighbour. The link between Hong Kong and the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen ...
Top-seeded Medina Garrigues advances at Guangzhou Open Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain beat Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Guangzhou Open. Medina Garrigues had her serve broken only once in ...
Gay Chinese resist police sweep at popular park hangout in what some say is a milestone When the police descend on People's Park and shoo away the gay men gathered there, the men usually scatter to avoid trouble. But recently, about 50 ...
Olga Govortsova of Belarus advances in Guangzhou Open Sixth-seeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus beat Han Xinyun of China 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 Monday to reach the second round of the Guangzhou Open. In two other first-round matches in the WTA tournament, Panova of ...
A look at major airplane hijackings since 1990 A look at major airplane hijackings since 1990: _ January 2007: Sudanese plane carrying 103 passengers and crew is hijacked and diverted to Chadian capital, N'Djamena, where hijacker surrenders. _ August 2004: Four Eritreans ...
Spitting image: Gritty Chinese city cleans up its act, seeks to win 'civilized' award Government-backed neighborhood groups are going door-to-door in south China's gritty business capital with a set of simple requests: Please stop spitting in public, cutting in bus lines and ...
Undisciplined and poorly trained, security guards often a source of insecurity in China A Chinese journalist was checking out a tip that police had discovered a woman's body this week when he was stopped by private security guards who beat him so ...
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, employees work in a blue jeans factory in Xintang township near Guangzhou, in South China's Guangdong province. The labor crunch is another sign that the Chinese economy _ the world's third largest _ is ...
Chinese factories face labor crunch but experts say it's not necessarily sign of full recovery During the first half of this year, Yang Zongfu's blue jean factory had few customers. Now, as his business picks up, he can't find enough workers. Clutching ...
