The Chinese government will modify its temporary subsidy plan for quake survivors starting in September, with each survivor experiencing financial hardship to get 200 yuan (29 U.S. dollars) per month, a State Council statement...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R Front) meets with members of the Cuban medical team at Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 24, 2008. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) Photo Gallery>>> CHENGDU, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday thanked medical staff...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gazes at the quake-devastated Beichuan town, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on May 22, 2008. Wen Jiabao made his second trip to the quake-battered zone on Thursday afternoon to oversee disaster relief work. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) Photo...
A successful bid by Thailand to develop a deep-sea port at Dawei on the Andaman Sea coast would complete three development deals by Burma’s most influential neighbors to upgrade the military junta’s seaways. At the other end of Burma, the old rice port of Sittwe on the edge of the Bay of Bengal...
The most frequently traded works from the cynical or social realist painters have boomed but as shows of true intellectual credibility have illustrated, the auction rooms do not tell the full story. ... “Passing fish eyes off as pearls” is how one prominent artist...