- Thai Airways joins China's biggest aviation distribution system
Thai Airways International announced a plan Sunday to join China's biggest aviation distribution system, Travel Sky, to better serve China's rapid growing aviation and tourism market.
- China Vs India in travel industry
India and China are on equal footing in their travel and tourism growth potential, but the "challenge is in making it happen", according to World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) president Jean-Claude Baumgarten.
- The booming travel industry in China
Driven by the booming trade, China is gradually emerging as a significant destination on the Indian outbound travel map. The growing familiarity, primarily because of increasing business visits, is encouraging Indian travellers to explore beyond Beijing, Shanghai and the Great Wall.
- The pet travel boom
From portable potty turf to disposable kitty litter boxes and pet passports, the growing number of traveling pets -- estimated at 20 million last year -- has spawned an industry dedicated to making the lives of road-weary animals a little easier.
- China to improve Internet safety
Updated: April 3, 2005
China is expected to pass a new set of rules and regulations to gradually establish an Internet emergency control mechanism this year in a fresh effort to curb soaring Internet hacks and attacks that have seriously threatened the safety of public and private information, Friday's China Youth Daily reported.
- Construction of Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline going well
April 2, 2005
Construction of the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline is going well, sources with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China's biggest oil producer, said Friday.
- Beijing funds heavily on historic sites renovation
Updated: April 2, 2005
Beijing city is moving to safeguard its historic sites with a 400 million yuan (US$48.2 million) renovation programme, it was announced on Friday.
- Rate hike worry spurs mortgage repayments
April 2, 2005
A central bank's recent decision to raise mortgage rates has given Beijing resident Xu Jie a good reason to keep busy.
- Inspections find more Sudan I food
April 1, 2005
More food products containing Sudan I, a red dye believed to possibly cause cancer, have been found in Beijing and Guangzhou.
- TD-SCDMA alliance to enlist foreign firm
October 24, 2004
TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous code division multiple access) Alliance, a domestic organization to promote the home grown third generation (3G) of wireless telecommunications standard, is soon to enlist Italian STMicroelectronics, the first foreign firm in the alliance.
- Beijing adopts much debated traffic rules
October 24, 2004
The Beijing Municipal People's Congress Friday adopted a local implementation method to the Road Traffic Safety Law, requiring compulsory third-party insurance for all motor vehicles in Beijing.
- SARS came from South China civet cats
October 24, 2004
Civet cats were confirmed to be host of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in south China's Guangdong Province in late 2002, but the animal was harmless in north China.
- Chinese satellite part hits house
October 17, 2004
A section of a Chinese scientific satellite that was returning from orbit crashed into an apartment building, wrecking the top floor but causing no injuries, a newspaper said Sunday.
- Wiping out poverty galvanizes China
October 17, 2004
China has achieved poverty reduction on a scale that has no parallel in human history, remarked a top World Bank official.
- Sperm bank in need of more donations
October 17, 2004
GUANGZHOU: Guangdong Human Sperm Bank (GHSB), one of China's five banks of its kind, is lacking enough sperm to accommodate the growing number of couples who arrive to the sperm bank in search of help.
- Emirates wins the vote from travel trade industry in Asia
October 17, 2004
Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, has been voted 'Best Middle East/African Airline' at the prestigious TTG Asia Travel Awards.
- Chinese visitors to Vietnam soar
October 17, 2004
Vietnam received 670,000 visitors from China's mainland between January to mid-October, a year-on-year rise of 42 percent, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) on Friday.
- Office romance popular
October 13, 2004
Office romances are controversial and awkward, but they are also surprisingly common among white-collar workers in Shanghai, a recent survey suggests.
- Beijing to get water from Hebei, Shanxi
October 13, 2004
Three reservoirs in North China's Shanxi and Hebei provinces began to divert water to Beijing Tuesday in an attempt to aid the thirsty capital.
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