Former US president George H. W. Bush, who led a coalition that ejected Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, was in intensive care at a Houston, Texas, hospital in a "guarded condition", family...
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New York City and much of the US Northeast yesterday dug out from a snowstorm that walloped a region still struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy.
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The mainland's top economic planning body touched only briefly yesterday on what lessons should be learned from the calamitous snowstorms of the past two months, preferring to dwell on the...
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Cut off from life's necessities by the worst blizzards in half a century, villagers in mountainous Lianzhou , Guangdong, have little to look forward to.
The worst snowstorms on the mainland in decades are not expected to have a lasting impact on the environment or agriculture despite the devastating damage it caused to crops in southern provinces...
The full extent of the damage wrought by the extreme weather on the mainland is only just becoming apparent. The immediate challenge is to ensure that those who successfully braved the poor...
More than 50 million yuan (HK$46.75 million) in aid has been allocated to Tibet to help victims of the region's biggest recorded snowstorms.
THE first snow fall of winter is traditionally seen as a sign of a good harvest, but for those of us in Beijing who do not have a couple of fields to till the sudden snow storm which hit the...
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