An Anthology of Ge Saer Published Ge Saer Anthology, a state key publishing project in the Ninth Five-year Plan Period, has come off the press recently. This marks a new step forward in the collection, compilation and study of the "Ge Saer", the heroic epic of the Tibetan people.  |  |
Expressway to Link Yunnan with Myanmar The first high-grade Kunming-Myanmar highway, extending 809 kilometers long, has already over 500 kilometers completed. This highway, consisting of expressway and high-level highway, will pass through Chuxiong, Dali, Baoshan, and Dehong Autonomous Prefectures in Yunnan Province, and link up with Mu Se, the biggest overland portal city in Union of Myanmar. The whole highway will be open to traffic by the end of 2002. Photo shows the Dali part of the Kunming-Myanmar Expressway running across the Guangtong-Dali Railway. |  |
Peach Flowers in Full Bloom while Snowflakes Dancing in the SkyWhen it is still snowing outside with a nip in the air, peach blossoms are already in full bloom with bees humming around in the "American Nectarine Planting Shed" in Qingzhou, Shandong Province. According to the host, although this winter is longer than the past, the nectarine has more buds and flowers due to a scientific management. Therefore, the nectarine will promise a higher yield and the time to ripe will be 20-day earlier than that in the past. |  |
HK Sets World Record in Container HandlingHK Modern Container Wharf Holdings Co Ltd., the oldest container operator in Hong Kong, has recently brushed the world record by loading and unloading 1884 containers in five hour 36 minutes, an average of 336 per hour. The picture shows the container wharf of the said company at Kwai Chung Container Port, Hong Kong. |  |
APEC Senior Officials Meeting OpensThe first Senior Officials Meeting (SOM I) and related meetings of the 13th Ministerial Conference of APEC opened in Beijing Monday morning. |  |
Sub Crash Search Continues, Investigation BeginsThe Bush administration on Sunday pledged a thorough search for the nine missing people from the "terrible tragedy" in which a US submarine sank a Japanese ship off Hawaii, as anguished relatives of the missing arrived in Honolulu to seek answers. Picture here shows the captain of the fishing boat who survived the chaos telling his experience during the accident. |  |
Taipei Mayor Visits Hong Kong Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (2nd from left) responses to reporters during the press conference held at the Shangri-la Hotel of Hong Kong Sunday, February 11, 2001. Ma Ying-jeou, invited by the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute (HKPRI), arrived Hong Kong Sunday morning with his delegation for a four-day visit. He will attend the fifth anniversary of the HKPRI, the Two-City Forum organized by the HKPRI and the Taiwan research Institute, and other activities. |  |
Chinese Wang Liqin Wins British Open Table Tennis TitleWorld number one Wang Liqin of China breezed past Christophe Legout of France 21-18, 21- 10, 21-9 to win the men's singles title at the British Open table tennis tournament Sunday in Chatham, England. |  |
Fly Kites to Greet the Spring Many families of Nanjing went to urban squares to fly kites in the warm early-Spring at the weekend. |  |
Russians Commemorate Poushkin A Russian lady lights up a candle in front of the statue of Poushkin at the Poushkin Square Saturday in Moscow to commemorate the 164th anniversary of the death of this Russian's great poet, February 10, 2001. |  |
Million People Sign to Fight Against Falun Gong Cult Youth of Zhuang ethnic sign on a large piece of banner in the activity of anti-evil cult in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region February 11, 2001. About a million residents of Guangxi signed in the activity held in the whole Guangxi to denounce Falun Gong evil cult and call on the society to ban the evil cult. |  |
Rescue Works Continue in Xinjiang Doctors of the NO.16 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) make their way through the heavy snow Sunday in blizzard-stricken Altay area in northern parts of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, February 11, 2001. Blizzards have claimed the lives of 13 people and more than 100,000 livestock and crushed 16,000 houses in Xinjiang. Chinese government is trying every possible way to help herdsmen there. |  |
Rescue Works Continue in Xinjiang Doctors of the NO.16 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) diagnose for 81-year-old Awudalip Sunday at Wutubulak village in blizzard-stricken Altay area in northern parts of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, February 11, 2001. Blizzards have claimed the lives of 13 people and more than 100,000 livestock and crushed 16,000 houses in Xinjiang. Chinese government is trying every possible way to help herdsmen there. |  |
Rotavirus Bacterin Developed in ChinaChina has become the second country in the world to have rotavirus bacterin following the United States. The oral rotavirus bacterin developed by the Biological Research Institute of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, has been widely used across China, sources said. |  |
