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Scenic spots ranked for their holiday services

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
In the ratings, some attractions, including the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Nanshan Tourism Zone in Hainan province and the ancient town of Lijiang in Yunnan province, were praised for their management and smooth operation. Other places, such as the ancient town of Taierzhuang in Shandong province, the Three Gorges Tourism Zone in Hubei province ......

Two faces of Chinese tourists

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
BAD ... Hou Geshun, a tourist from Heilongjiang province, burned Vietnamese money at a bar in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang, which is illegal ... GOOD ... Officials of Thailand met Yang Li, a tour guide from Jiangsu province, in Bangkok on Wednesday to praise her for donating blood, which saved a life ... Lu Shan, a tourist from Beijing, accompanied a tour group to Yunnan province during the holiday....

National railway corp gets new GM

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
Lu, a native of Jiangsu province, started his career at the Ministry of Transport in 1973 ... His predecessor, Sheng, is a native of Jiangsu province and was the last railway minister under the old structure ... ....

Fort McMurray says thanks to Canadians for support during devastating wildfire

Edit Toronto Sun 10 Oct 2016
The federal government contributed $104 million to match funds donated made by individual Canadians and the province matched $30 million given by individual Albertans. Water bombers and firefighters from other provinces, including Ontario, B.C., Quebec and New Brunswick, were also involved in fighting the blaze....

No parole for high-ranking Party boss

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
The former Communist Party boss of Qinghai and Yunnan provinces was accused of taking bribes and given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve on Sunday ... The verdict was handed down by the Anyang City Intermediate People's Court in Henan province, along with permanent revocation of Bai's citizenship and confiscation of all personal properties....

Taliban leader was openly teaching and preaching in Pakistan

Edit Khaama Press 10 Oct 2016
The new supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada was openly teaching and preaching in a mosque in Balochistan province of Pakistan before he was appointed to succeed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in US drone strike in Pakistan ... in a US drone strike in the vicinity of Balochistan province of Afghanistan....

Seven provinces in central region warned of flood as more water to be discharged from Chao Phraya Dam (Royal Thai Government)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Oct 2016
The Government, therefore, has made a warning to 7 provinces in the central area, that is, Chainat, Uthai Thani, Singh Buri, Ang Thong, Suphan Buri, Lop Buri, and Ayutthaya, to be on alert and take precaution for possible rise in water level....

Italian PM faces fresh opposition against referendum

Edit Xinhua 10 Oct 2016
by Stefania Fumo. ROME, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi may have earned himself another outspoken opponent of his constitutional reform law within his own center-left Democratic Party (PD), namely, former Rome mayor Ignazio Marino ... "I will say what I think of the reform." ... Title V of the charter covers regions, provinces and municipalities. Renzi's reform would eliminate Italy's 110 provinces ... Editor. yan. ....

The true art of friendship on display (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Oct 2016
(Source. Shanghai Municipal Government). One of Lu Yanshaos ink-wash paintings which is on show at the Lu Yanshao Art Gallery ... Lu got to know Fei on Shangbai Hill in the Mogan Mountains of Zhejiang Province in 1934. They soon became good friends and promised each other that they would spend their retirement in houses built by Lu on the hill ... xinwo Art Gallery in Shuang-lin, Zhejiang Province, from October 22 to December 4. Date ... Tel ... Venue....

Thousands flee pitched battles in Afghan city

Edit Arabnews 10 Oct 2016
Author. . AGENCIES. Mon, 2016-10-10. ID. . 1476049165357082100. KABUL ... Terrified residents facing a growing humanitarian crisis have been fleeing explosions and gunfights to neighboring provinces of Balkh, Takhar, Baghlan and the capital Kabul ... Meanwhile, eight Afghan army soldiers were killed early Sunday morning when a military helicopter crashed in northern Baghlan province, officials said ... Main category. . World. ....

Chinese spent $180b on food and shopping during National Day holiday

Edit China Daily 10 Oct 2016
Enterprises in the retail and catering business raked in about 1.2 trillion yuan ($180 billion) during the past weeklong National Day holiday, up 10.7 percent year on year, the Economic Information Daily reported ... West China's Chongqing municipality and Sichuan province and central China's Hunan province were the top three regions seeing booming retail and catering business ... Xinhua contributed to this story. ....

Who are Syria's White Helmets - and why are they so controversial?

Edit Topix 10 Oct 2016
A young man, wearing a white helmet and a distinctive yellow-and-blue badge on his arm, digs for four hours in the rubble of a building destroyed by a Russian-regime airstrike in Idlib Province in northwest Syria. Finally, he sees what he's looking for. an infant, only weeks old ... ....

Car bomb attack kills nine soldiers in southeast Turkey: sources

Edit Topix 10 Oct 2016
The blast hit the Durak gendarmerie station, 20 km from the town of Semdinli, in a mountainous part of Hakkari province near the border with Iraq and Iran, where Kurdistan Workers Party militants are active ... ....
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