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Gateway to the mountains where tradition lives eternally on

Feature | Travel
2009-11-14

THE land that time forgot Breathe deeply amid traditional towns nestled among breathtaking mountains, picturesque temples, wholesome food and simple welcomes. Fei Lai explores the heights of Yunnan Province. No...

Daughter, 16, pushed to prostitution: prosecutors

National
2009-11-11

A MAN and his lover faced trial yesterday for renting a room for the man's 16-year-old daughter to engage in prostitution in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Because the case involved an adolescent, Wuhua District...

28 injured as quake shakes up Yunnan

National
2009-11-3

AN earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale shook southwest China's Yunnan Province early yesterday, slightly injuring 28 people and knocking down more than 1,000 homes, authorities said. The quake struck...

5.0-magnitude quake hits southwest China's Yunnan

National
2009-11-2

AN earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted southwest China's Yunnan Province early this morning, said the National Seismological Network of China. The quake struck the Binchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous...

Syringe-attack toddlers test negative

National
2009-10-28

TWENTY-FOUR toddlers from a kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province allegedly stabbed by their teacher with a syringe have tested negative for HIV and hepatitis B and C infection, local authorities said. ...

Stabbed toddlers test negative for HIV

National
2009-10-27

TWENTY-FOUR toddlers from a kindergarten in Yunnan Province allegedly stabbed with a syringe by their teacher have tested negative for HIV, Hepatitis B and C, authorities said yesterday. No motive has been identified...

Mud and rain hamper rescue efforts in northern Philippines

World
2009-10-10

RESCUERS struggled through mud and pounding rain yesterday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 bodies from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines. ...

Myanmar border inhabitants return to Kokang after fighting ends

World
2009-9-5

SOME 1,427 more Myanmar border inhabitants returned to Kokang ethnic region from Chinese border area yesterday after the end of the fighting in the region on August 29, bringing the total of the returnees to their...

Myanmar people flooding in China due to war

National
2009-8-28

MYANMAR residents are flooding in neighboring Yunnan Province in southwest China yesterday amid a domestic war, the provincial government said. The number of Myanmar people fleeding from Kokang area of Shan state...

Abductors of children jailed for life

National
2009-8-26

THREE kidnappers were sentenced to life in prison and 15 others were handed varying sentences yesterday in southwest China's Yunnan Province for abducting and trafficking in women and children. Geng Zhucun was...