Special trains take me home for festival

A staff of Beijing West Railway Station checks tickets for a train for migrant workers on January 14, 2005. The train which is leaving for Chengdu will take these workers back home for the Spring Festival, the Chinese nular new year. Beijing Railway Bureau has arranged group tickets service for 30,000 migrant workers so far as part of their special plan of transporting migrant worker during the festival.

First SARS vaccine trials a success

A student receives a temperature check through an auto-thermometer before attending the national college entrance examination in Beijing in in June , 2003. China was hit by an outbreak of SARS between March and July that year. A SARS vaccine could be used among high-risk groups in China in the event of a large-scale outbreak again this spring, say experts.

Rushing to the World Cup

China's Wang Manli skates to a first placed finish in the Ladies' 500m race at the World Cup Speed Skating event in Calgary, January 14, 2005. Wang leads the World Cup season. (Photo Source: Reuters)

Restoring normal life after tsunami

Fishermen sail at sea near a fishing village of Hikkaduwa, a tsunami-hit town of south Sri Lanka, Jan. 13, 2005. Although more than 600 fishing boats of the village were destroyed by tsunami, some villagers have resumed fishing after repairing boats.

Shopping for the lunar new year

A girl looks at decorations for Spring Festival at a fair selling special goods for the holiday in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province Jan. 14, 2005. The fair attracted tens of thousdands of people as the Spring Festival draws near.

Huyens sends back photos

This photo obtained by the ESA is one of the first pictures returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent onto Saturn's moon, Titan. It apparently shows short, stubby drainage channels leading to a shoreline. (Source: Xinhua/Reuters)

President Hu urges CPC members to keep Party's advanced nature

President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, speaks at a meeting on maintaining the advanced nature of the Party in Beijing January 14, 2005.

Li Changchun meets with Cambodian deputy PM

China is willing to make concerted efforts with Cambodia to enhance political exchanges between political parties, governments and parliaments of the two countries, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee said in Beijing Friday in his meeting with Prince Norodom Sirivudh, secretary-general of the Cambodian Funcinpec Party and Cambodian deputy prime minister.