For Zhang Shuren, 78, who took his 10-year-old grandson to the Peking Insect Museum recently, dragonflies are inseparable from his memories of old Beijing. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, he spent summer afternoons near ponds, canals and patches of open land, chasing dragonflies with other child»»»

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Just after six each morning, 63-year-old Chen Zhongyi unlatches the wooden door of a pigeon loft outside his home in Beijing's Lanman Hutong. Within seconds, more than 20 homing pigeons burst into the sky, circling above the grey-tiled roofs before fanning out across th»»»

Beijing: A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing's tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said on Saturday without elaborating on the cause of the rare incident. Witnesses of Friday's crash reported plane debris at the base of the 528-metre (1,732»»»

BEIJING, June 27, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing's tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said on Saturday, without elaborating on the cause of the rare incident. Witnesses of Friday's crash reported plane debris at the b»»»

BEIJING, June 27 — A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said today, without elaborating on the cause of the rare incident. Witnesses of yesterday’s crash reported plane debris at the base of the 528-metr»»»

Damage to the facade of China Zun, also known as the CITIC Tower, in Beijing after a small plane crashed into it. (EPA Images pic) BEIJING: A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said on Saturday, without »»»

Beijing - A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said on June 27, without elaborating on the cause of the rare incident. Witnesses of the June 26 crash reported plane debris at the base of the 528m CITIC T»»»

Agencies Beijing China’s labour market is sending out mixed signals. Headline growth has held up, but beneath it, the pressure is building where it matters most politically and socially among the young. Official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics shows the urban jobless rate for the»»»

A scandal that has gripped China in recent days poses the question in a different way. It revolves not around safety, but rather around food quality FEW SCANDALS IN China provoke as much outrage as those related to food. This is perhaps only natural in a country that takes immense and justified pri»»»

BEIJING: Billy Koh is a familiar name in the Singapore and Chinese music scenes. He started his career in the 1980s with Singapore's Xinyao music movement, banding with a group of musicians to establish music company Ocean Butterflies. The record label went on to groom homegrown talents like Kit Ch»»»

River overflows in southern China, stranding people, turning streets into canals (Image: AP) BEIJING: Rescue workers used rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water Wednesday after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China's Guangdong province.About 30,000 people have been »»»

BEIJING: Hopeful parents accompanied their teenage children to the gates of a busy Beijing test center on Saturday, among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the highly competitive university entrance exam. Nationwide, 13.35 million students have registered for »»»

Hopeful parents accompanied their teenage children to the gates of a busy Beijing test center on Saturday, among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the highly competitive university entrance exam. Nationwide, 13.35 million students have registered for the multi»»»

In a pre-mission briefing of his men from the special CoBRA force, Manoranjan, a newly-inducted young officer, had declared, “It’s a do or die mission, and mine will be the first CoBRA blood to be shed if it came to that.” During his pre-induction interview, I had observed his readiness to give his»»»

Justice and constitutional development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has dismissed claims that her former department spent R16m on travel expenses during her tenure as human settlements minister. In a reply to a parliamentary question by Action SA, the human settlements department said R16m was spent o»»»

Moments after registering their marriage, Zhang Gang and Weng Linbin posed in front of a red backdrop adorned with a Chinese government emblem, fanning out the wad of cash they had received as an incentive to wed. Zhang's home city of Luliang in northern Shanxi province is one of many places in Chi»»»

Moments after registering their marriage, Zhang Gang and Weng Linbin posed in front of a red backdrop adorned with a Chinese government emblem, fanning out the wad of cash they had received as an incentive to wed. Zhang's home city of Luliang in northern Shanxi province is one of many places in Chi»»»