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Beijing Olympics

‘Smoke’ in Chinese kitchen rattles Olympics cheer

By Yusof Sulaiman, eTN Asia/Pacific

An emergency landing following an attempted terrorist attack on board a plane en route to Beijing from the northwestern city of Lanzhou, in

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China

Eclipse tourists should expect heat wave in Western China's Xinjiang

By xinhuanet.com

URUMQI - More than 2,000 astronomy fans who have traveled to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for the best view of Friday's solar eclipse will have to deal with the summer's most int

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China

Xinjiang is becoming "tourist destination in western China"

With a natural landscape possessing glaciers, grassland, desert, mountains, and lakes, Xinjiang has become a "hot" destination in recent years. By the end of last year, inbound tourism surpassed the total population of Xinjiang for the first time (Xinjiang has a total population of 20.5 million by 2006); and Xinjiang has been ranked among the ... read more