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Chinese authorities on Wednesday raised the emergency response for flood control to Level II, the second-highest in the response system, as heavy downpours continued to lash the central province of Henan.   Extremely heavy rainfall hit Henan on Tuesday, with precipitation in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, exceeding the highest level on local weather records, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.   The rainstorm has caused the water level in a reservoir to rise rapidly, said t...

  Cosmetic surgery has received a barrage of criticism after the recent death of an internet celebrity in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, following an operation to remove fatty tissue.   Surnamed Dai, the 33-year-old ran her own fashion brand and had about 13,000 followers on Weibo, a micro-blogging platform. She died on July 13, two months after the surgery, due to a postoperative infection.   On May 2, Dai underwent bodyshaping surgery including liposuction and lipofilling at Hangzhou Huayan ...

A fully vaccinated White House official tested positive for COVID-19 but was found to have had no close contacts with White House principals or staff, confirmed White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday.   "Yesterday, a fully vaccinated White House official tested positive for COVID-19 off campus. In accordance with our rigorous COVID-19 protocols, the official remains off campus as they wait for confirmatory PCR test," said Psaki during Tuesdays press briefing, confirming earlier local...

Russia displayed a prototype of its fifth-generation lightweight single-engine fighter jet "Checkmate" at the International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS)-2021 that kicked off in a Moscow suburb on Tuesday.   The "completely new" aircraft boasts low visibility, high flight performance, and artificial intelligence assistance for the pilot, said Russias high-tech conglomerate the Rostec State Corporation, which is developing the plane.   The Checkmate will use the same engine and avionics as R...

  A native of Panyu district in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, he has recently completed construction of a functioning model of Beijings Forbidden City out of thousands of Lego blocks.   The miniature, on display at his studio, surprises and attracts many friends and visitors, especially Lego fans.   Starting at the Meridian Gate, the model recreates 70 palaces and the 9,000 rooms of the Forbidden City. It also includes its city walls, moat, four city gates and all of its turrets....

Typhoon Cempaka, the seventh typhoon this year, made landfall in the coastal area of south Chinas Guangdong Province Tuesday night, bringing strong winds and heavy rains.     The typhoon landed on the coast of Jiangcheng district in the city of Yangjiang, packing winds of up to 118.8 km per hour near its eye, the provincial meteorological center said.     It also has called back 384 fishing vessels and asked 2,680 fish-farming workers to be evacuated ashore. Nearly 5,000 people in the city ...

An elderly student introduces herself to her class in fluent English. "My name is Peng Shengwu. I am 80 years old. I like singing, playing piano and learning English. Welcome to Changsha and to my university."   After years of study in Changsha, in Hunan province, Peng has mastered conversational English. She can even understand some English news broadcasts. "Learning makes me happy. And besides," she said with a mischievous grin, "I dont want to get senile dementia."   A passionate learner, ...

Picture taken on Oct. 8, 2012 shows Nord Stream pipeline equipments before the opening ceremony of the North Stream second gas link in Portovaya bay, near the town of Vyborg in northwestern Russia. (Xinhua)   "The Germans have put forward useful proposals and we have been able to make progress on steps to achieve that shared goal ... to ensure that Russia cannot weaponize energy flows," a State Department spokesperson said.   The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that Washington and Berli...

Fixed-asset investment by Chinas centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) rose 10.5 percent year on year to 1.1 trillion yuan (about 170 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2021, official data showed.   The data put average year-on-year investment growth for the same period of 2021 and 2020 at 8.7 percent from the 2019 level, according to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council.   In June alone, central SOEs invested 29...

Chinas 2021 box office revenue topped 29 billion yuan (about 4.48 billion U.S. dollars) as of Thursday.   The milestone this year was hit more than a month later than in 2019, when the same total was achieved on June 12, according to data from box office tracker Maoyan.     Comedian and actress Jia Lings maiden directorial project "Hi, Mom" and Wanda Pictures comedy "Detective Chinatown 3" lead the yearly chart, with total respective earnings of 5.41 billion yuan and 4.52 billion yuan, or mo...