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Maps and charts expose rapid temperature plunge, some areas down 20°C

A participant considers their impact

Chinese authorities have planned to recommend the Beijing Central Axis as Chinas 2024 world cultural heritage application project. It was included on the preliminary list of Chinas world cultural heritage sites in 2012. (Xinhua/Mu Wenchun)

The new coalition is set to make the January election much more competitive.

A humble restaurant on a Beijing street serving up a hearty dish of pork liver, lungs and intestines was once the site of an unconventional China-US rapprochement.

On a 2011 visit, then US vice president Joe Biden went for lunch at Yaoji Chaogan, sparking a social media craze over his "noodle diplomacy". Outside the eatery in one of the capitals historic hutong neighbourhoods this week, Chinese people expressed hope that a meeting between leader Xi Jinping and now President Biden might help the two men to cook up a diplomatic success of their own.

A humble restaurant on a Beijing street serving up a hearty dish of pork liver, lungs and intestines was once the site of an unconventional China-US

This aerial photo taken on Nov. 11, 2023 the view of snow-covered ancient city wall in Xian, northwest Chinas Shaanxi Province. Xian witnessed a snowfall on Saturday, the first one after traditional solar term of Lidong, which means the beginning of winter and fell on Nov. 8 this year.

What is a National Monument? Who gazettes them? How many national monuments are there in Singapore? To date, the Preservation of Sites and Monuments, a division of National Heritage Board, has identified and gazetted 75 buildings, structures and sites of national significance as an integral part of Singapore’s built heritage. You've probably passed by or stepped into more than a...