The base camp of Mount Qomolangma, or Mount Everest, at an altitude of 5,200 meters, now has access to reliable electricity, the Tibet Branch of the State Grid Corporation of China said on Wednesday.
An Indian army trooper Thursday killed five of his colleagues and wounded two others before shooting himself dead with his service rifle inside a camp in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
At the age of 88, Li Lishui still remembers every detail of his heroic assistance to an Allied prisoner of war (POW) held almost seven decades ago at a Japanese internment camp in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The mother of a rape victim in central China has filed a petition over her detainment in a labor camp, sparking a new wave of public outcry calling for reform - or even abolishment - of re-education through labor.
The Chinese government will this year push the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal work conference on Monday.
As Turkey is completing preparations to deploy NATO's Patriot missiles along its borders with Syria, Syrian cabinet met here Tuesday to find mechanisms to put into effect the fresh vision of President Bashar al-Assad on a political solution to the country's 22-month crisis.
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