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• China to try manual space docking
• Bird flu `epidemic' sparks chicken cull
• One young Tibetan died after he and a fellow demonstrator in a remote area of Qinghai province set themeselves alight, in the latest such protest against Beijing rule.
• Making a splash across the country for the Dragon Boat Festival
• China and US enterprises sign US$3.4b deals
• 8 missing from ship
• 5 killed in collision
• 400m yuan earmarked for tourism in Tibet
• Vice raid rescues 11 Vietnamese
• Dad does the donkey work
• 5.9 million people take trains on first day of holiday rush
• 8 missing after ship capsizes in Bohai
• Rains persist in south China, heat in north

China to try manual space docking Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:30 PM PDT China is to make its first ever attempt at manually docking a spacecraft, the Shenzhou-9, with another space module.

Bird flu `epidemic' sparks chicken cull Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:42 PM PDT

One young Tibetan died after he and a fellow demonstrator in a remote area of Qinghai province set themeselves alight, in the latest such protest against Beijing rule. Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Making a splash across the country for the Dragon Boat Festival Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:49 AM PDT People across the country celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival yesterday in various ways. The festival, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, is the day to race dragon boats, eat sticky rice zongzi, take a sip of arsenic-laced wine, and hang herbs around the door to ward off pests, illness and evil. From left to right: Competitors in southeast Shishi City, Fujian Province, splash water over each other as boats race on the Hanjiang River; 30 dragon boat teams race on Luyi Lake in Zhengzhou City, in central Henan Province; the winning team in a dragon boat race in Baise City, south Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, jump into the river to chase ducks; a jet ski rider shows off her skill on Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, after 33 dragon boat teams from both home and abroad raced in the rain. Nine teams, including entries from France, Hungary and Macau, competed in the final races on a 500-meter stretch between Gubei Road Bridge and Luding Road Bridge in Putuo District. Defending champions Hungary were victorious. Shanghai's first dragon boat race on Suzhou Creek was held in 2003. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

China and US enterprises sign US$3.4b deals Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:31 AM PDT INVESTMENT contracts worth US$3.4 billion were signed by enterprises from both China and the United States during a forum held in eastern China's Jiangsu Province. Eighty-five enterprises from 21 Chinese cities and 20 US cities gathered for the second US-China Cities Forum on Economic Cooperation and Investment on Friday and yesterday. A total of 42 investment projects were involved, covering 21 sectors - including manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, electronic information, chemical and pharmaceutical. China's Finance Minister Xie Xuren said at the opening ceremony that China and the US share different resource advantages, and strongly complement each other in economic development. The two economies should expand cooperation in more sectors, especially in energy and environmental protection, biomedicine and infrastructure, so as to turn opportunities into tangible results, Xie said. The forum, jointly sponsored by Chinese and US finance ministries, this year seeks to form contracts on the basis of spoken agreements reached between China and US top officials over the past year, including President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States in January 2011.The forum was first held in Seattle last year. China and the United States are each's second-largest trading partner, with bilateral trade currently totalling US$446.6 billion.

8 missing from ship Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:30 AM PDT EIGHT people are missing after a sand mining ship capsized Friday afternoon in the Bohai Sea, local authorities said yesterday. The incident happened at 5pm when a ship registered in Anhui Province capsized off the coast of Huludao City, Liaoning Province, an official of the city said. Maritime authorities received the report at 11:30am yesterday and launched a rescue. Four of the crew were found and taken to hospital, where they were in a stable condition, but eight were still missing, an official said.

5 killed in collision Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:29 AM PDT FIVE people died and 36 were left injured after a truck and bus collided in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region yesterday, police said. The accident happened at 7:20am when a bus carrying factory workers collided with a truck in Qingshan Industrial Park in Bayannur City, said an official from the city's public security bureau.

400m yuan earmarked for tourism in Tibet Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:29 AM PDT MORE than 400 million yuan (US$63.5 million) has been earmarked to develop tourism in southeastern Tibet, by south China's Guangdong provincial government as partner assistance. Nyingchi prefecture in southeastern Tibet, with virgin forest, snow-capped mountains, rivers and pastures, has "potential golden tourism resources," a partner assistance official in Tibet said yesterday. Guangdong provincial government has designated four counties in Nyingchi prefecture to develop.

Vice raid rescues 11 Vietnamese Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:25 AM PDT ELEVEN Vietnamese who were abducted and forced into prostitution in the adjoining Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China have been rescued, police in Dongxing City, Guangxi, said yesterday. Two rescued women and the ringleader surnamed Wei, a native of Vietnam, were transferred back to Vietnam on Friday. Nine women are awaiting return. Police in Mong Cai in northern Vietnam asked their counterpart in Dongxing to assist investigating a cross-border prostitution ring on May 29, after being tipped-off by an abducted woman, China News Service reported. Vietnamese women, including one surnamed Ruan, a relative of a police official, were kidnapped and sold to Guangxi's capital city, Nanning, in April, police said. They were held in a beauty parlor and forced to work as prostitutes. Wei supervised their moves and phone calls to prevent them from escaping, Chinese officers said. But Ruan still managed to call her family on May 29 and alert them to her plight. After receiving a report from Dongxing police, Nanning police raided the parlor on June 12. Despite crackdowns, there remains a thriving market for foreign prostitutes in China, especially in border areas.

Dad does the donkey work Posted: 23 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT A father carrying his son jogs in Beijing's Olympic Forest Park yesterday during a health run event to commemorate International Olympic Day and cheer for Chinese athletes in the forthcoming London Olympics. Employees from 15 companies and residents took part in the 5-kilometer run. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

5.9 million people take trains on first day of holiday rush Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:13 AM PDT China's Ministry of Railways said today that 5.9 million people traveled on trains on Thursday, the first day of the four-day travel rush for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The figure marked a jump of nearly 1 million passengers from Wednesday, and 298,000 passengers, or a 5.3-percent increase, from last year, the ministry said. Passenger volumes of Jinan Railway Bureau and Qinghai-Tibet Railway Co. increased the most, up 23.8 percent and 17.4 percent, respectively, from the same period last year. Shanghai Railway Bureau saw the biggest volume of passengers, as trains under its control carried 1.1 million travelers on the day. Tourist cities Beijing, Tianjin and Wuhan all saw high rail-traffic volumes. To cope with the travel rush, the ministry added 196 provisional passenger trains on Thursday, one day ahead of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival commemorates the famous ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan. Chinese people prepare and eat zongzi, or leaf-packed glutinous rice dumplings, drink wine and race dragon boats on the day. The festival falls on June 23 this year.

8 missing after ship capsizes in Bohai Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:45 AM PDT EIGHT people are missing after a sand mining ship capsized yesterday afternoon in the Bohai Sea, local authorities told Xinhua today. The incident happened 5 pm yesterday when a ship registered in Anhui Province capsized off the coast of Huludao City, Liaoning Province, an official of the city said. Maritime authorities received the report at 11:30 am today and started to immediately organize the rescue. As of 2 pm, eight people were still missing. The four rescued have been hospitalized and were in stable condition, the official said. An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.

Rains persist in south China, heat in north Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:41 PM PDT CHINA'S meteorological authority said today that heavy rains will persist in southern regions over the next three days, while heat will scorch the north. Heavy rains and rainstorms will slash some parts in south and southwest China, as well as regions south of the Yangtze River from Saturday to Monday, the National Meteorological Center said in an online statement. Precipitation in those regions will reach as much as 160 millimeters, with some areas likely to see thunderstorms and gales, the center said. During the period, north China, Inner Mongolia autonomous region and northeast China will see showers and thunder showers, with some regions expected to be hit by rainstorms, thunderstorms, gales and hailstorms, the center said. Meanwhile, heat will parch southern parts of north China, regions along the Yellow and Huai rivers, central-northern parts of Shaanxi province, regions along the Yangtze and Han rivers, south Xinjiang basin and the Turpan basin from Saturday to Sunday, the center noted. Temperatures in those regions may reach up to 38 degrees Celsius, it said.

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