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Hong Kong embraces crowds of tourists during Workers' Day holiday
Xinhua, Published on 02/05/2023
» HONG KONG: Outside the Peak Tram ticket office at Central in downtown Hong Kong, was a stream of tourists queuing for tickets to the Peak, one of Hong Kong's top attractions.
Chinese astronauts return to earth after 90-day mission
AFP, Published on 17/09/2021
» BEIJING - Chinese astronauts returned to earth Friday after completing the country's longest-ever crewed mission, the latest landmark in Beijing's drive to become a major space power.
China's astronauts make spacewalk to upgrade robotic arm
AFP, Published on 20/08/2021
» BEIJING - Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station.
First spacewalk at China's new Tiangong station
AFP, Published on 04/07/2021
» BEIJING: Two astronauts conducted China's first tandem spacewalk on Sunday, working on the outside of their nation's new Tiangong station in orbit around Earth.
First astronauts at China's new space station conduct spacewalk
AFP, Published on 04/07/2021
» BEIJING: Astronauts at China's new space station conducted their first spacewalk Sunday, state media reported, as Beijing presses on with its extraterrestrial ambitions.
Rocket lifts off with first crew for Chinese space station
AFP, Published on 17/06/2021
» JIUQUAN, China: The first astronauts for China's new space station lifted off on Thursday for the country's longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power.
Trailblazing Vietnamese beauty queen pushing girls to stay in school
AFP, Published on 30/09/2020
» HO CHI MINH CITY: Skin-whitening, child marriage, a curtailed education - Vietnamese model and literacy campaigner H'Hen Nie has defied traditional expectations and is determined to show the next generation a different way.
Shanghai leads battle against China's rising mountain of trash
AFP, Published on 14/07/2019
» SHANGHAI: Nie Feng used to toss his rubbish outside his Shanghai flat without a thought while rushing to work, but saving China from a garbage crisis now requires him to consult a complex diagram each morning.
Fad for 'lucky' tail hair threatens Vietnam elephants
AFP, Published on 26/09/2018
» BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam: In a village in Vietnam's "elephant kingdom", a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted with coarse hairs she promises will bring good luck -– a grim new trade that is endangering the country's few remaining elephants.