Xingchaung Tower, 84 meters high, is pictured at Daxing District in Beijing. Due to its special twisted shape, people nicknamed it as "Large Intestine Tower".
Today in Photos, October 1
1 Oct 2013
Xingchaung Tower, 84 meters high, is pictured at Daxing District in Beijing. Due to its special twisted shape, people nicknamed it as "Large Intestine Tower". Photo: Simon Song
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![]( "People in Lanshan, Hunan were waiting for rescue on a broken road surrouded by floods. Photo: Xinhua")
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![]( "Running on rails - Premier Li Keqiang chats with workers outside a railway tunnel in Muzhailing, Gansu province yesterday during an inspection tour of the Lanzhou to Chongqing rail link. The high-speed rail project connecting the capital city of Gansu with the sprawling southwestern metropolis is expected to be completed next year. Photo: SCMP Pictures")
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![]( "A mountaintop-shaped villa built on top of a 26-storey apartment block in Beijing drew worldwide mockery this week, and led local officials to issue an ultimatum for the owner to get rid of it. The news has drawn attention to other outlandish structures on the mainland. It seems nothing too tacky is beyond reach for some entrepreneurs. From perching a fighter plane on top of a restaurant to having an illegal building envelop high-voltage power lines, anything is possible. An office building (above) is topped off in the shape of a wine bottle at the Wuliangye wine company in Yibin, Sichuan province. Photo: Imaginechina")
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![]( "Plenty maw - A visitor shovels a load of fish maw for HK$1 at the Food Expo which opened yesterday at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. Exhibitor On Kee Dry Seafood company set up the fish maw \"mountain\" and charges the first 10 visitors HK$1 each to take home a shovelful of the delicacy. Japanese companies have turned up in force at the expo as the country tries to promote businesses that are still hurting from the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Photo: David Wong")
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![]( "Signs of discontent - Protesters opposed to Philippine-US military talks hold signs as anti-riot soldiers stand by at military headquarters in Quezon City. Negotiators from both sides began talks on a possible increase in American troops in the country. The negotiations come more than two decades after US bases were closed, and amid territorial disputes with China. Photo: EPA")
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![]( "Connaught Road Central. Photo: Christopher Dingcong")
News14 Aug 2013 -
![]( "In times of seemingly endless violence, need and despair, it's sometimes hard to believe in that old adage that love makes the world go round. But it wasn't hard to be swept up in the sentiment yesterday as lovers and would-be romantics marked the Qixi Festival, also referred to as Chinese Valentine's Day. A Jiangsu couple mark the festival by tying the knot and showing off their marriage certificates (above). Photo: China Foto Press")
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![]( "Enjoy it while it lasts - There was no escape from the baking heat along the pier in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday, where the mercury hit a record high of 34.9 degrees Celsius. But there could be some relief today, from the heat at least - the Observatory may raise the typhoon signal to No 3 this morning as Hong Kong braces for the first severe typhoon to hit the city in 13 months. Typhoon Utor was 670 kilometres southeast of Hong Kong at 7pm yesterday, packing gusts of up to 200km/h. Photo: Sam Tsang")
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![]( "Snap from our favourite Martian - It has been just over a year since Nasa's Curiosity rover made its historic landing on the Red Planet. In that time, the rover has explored its surroundings and beamed back spectacular images. During the first half of this year, Curiosity found evidence of a Martian environment with conditions favourable for microbial life. Photo: AP")
Photos12 Aug 2013
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