Travel China: Beijing City, Wangfujing Street

" Go to Wangfujing street, and enjoy your wonderful nightlife." Lots of foreigners traveling in Beijing are recommended by locals when nightfall comes to the great oriental city. Wangfujing is now considered the central heart of Beijing. Certainly from Wangfujing all areas of Beijing are easily accessible. Wangfujing is a fairly long street. A walk from end to end would take you about 30 ...

China to lift HIV/AIDS travel ban

MEXICO CITY - China is likely to lift its two-decade-old ban on people with HIV/AIDS entering the country some time next year, a top Chinese health official said in Mexico City on Tuesday. "Government agencies, including the Ministry of Health and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, have reached consensus on the issue," Hao Yang, deputy director of the ...

Xiangjiang to be ''Rhine of China''

The Hunan government will spend 17.4 billion yuan ($2.5 billion) over the next three years to clean the Xiangjiang River, one of the country's most polluted, Governor Zhou Qiang said on Monday. The project is designed to bring the quality of water in the river in line with national standards and will be achieved by enforcing tougher controls on polluting companies and by building more sewage tr...

Emergency plan mulled for clear air during Games

More vehicles could go off the roads and all construction sites and some more factories in Beijing and its neighboring areas could be closed temporarily if the capital's air quality deteriorates during the Olympic Games. The Beijing authorities are likely to announce the special measures for the Aug 8-24 Games soon, the city's environment authority said yesterday. Li Xin, a senior engineer who...

Is sex a question? Beijing sets up sex determination lab for Olympics

Beijing has set up a sex determination lab to test female Olympic athletes suspected to be males. Suspected athletes will be evaluated from their external appearances by experts and undergo blood tests to examine their sex hormones, genes and chromosomes for sex determination, according to Prof. Tian Qinjie of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Initial test results would be available in ...

Qingdao Olympic village officially opens

Qingdao Olympic village officially opened on Sunday when it received 14 sailing teams including Japan, Brazil, Spain and China. "We will try our best to provide a safe, comfortable, cozy and pleasant home for athletes," said Zang Aimin, head of the Qingdao Olympic village and executive vice-president of the Sailing Committee (Qingdao) of Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX O...

Beijing hospitals to open 7 days a week during Olympics

Hospitals here will be open seven days a week during the Olympics to better serve residents and visitors, although thousands of medical workers will also serve the Games. The city health department also asked hospitals to make sure emergency rooms are open round the clock, Thursday's Beijing Times reported. Beijing hospitals may be short-staffed, as 3,223 medical workers have been assigned t...

Introduction of Bird''s Nest

The Beijing National Stadium, also known as the bird's nest will be the main track and field stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics and will be host to the Opening and Closing ceremonies. In 2002 Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research...

Beijing promises safe, peaceful Olympics

A senior Beijing Olympic official said here Wednesday that Beijing is confident of dealing with any kind of security threat and will present the world a safe and peaceful Olympics. "All work related to Olympic security is in full swing and security personnel and equipment are all in place," Liu Shaowu, director of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) security departme...

Golden Pond Italian Restaurant

Golden Pond Italian Restaurant & Bar is an ensemble of a tavern, convention hall, bar attached with coffee, a lotus pond and bistro to serve soul tempting Italian delicacies. Golden Pond Italian Restaurant is located at G/F building, 18, Hang Rui Garden, Nan Guang Road in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen. The chandeliers reflecting the golden lights will unnerve your inertia. Take an evening...