Snow hampers China New Year
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China orders emergency measures to fight nationwide transport chaos caused by severe weather conditions.
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Heavy snow in central China continued to snarl roads, railways and airports on Sunday, delaying millions of travellers trying to head home for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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Snow battering central China has dealt an "extremely serious" blow to winter crops, a top agriculture official warned Thursday, raising the likelihood that future shortages would exaggerate already surging food prices.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain-road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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Heavy snow leaves at least 16 people dead and causes transport chaos in central and eastern China.
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Brutal winter weather that has battered China's central, eastern and southern sections prompted the China Meteorological Administration to issue a rare red alert Monday as the nation braced for more snow and bone-chilling temperatures.
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Heavy snow hampers travel in the north of England, with motorists urged to avoid unnecessary journeys.
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China has turned its battle  against brutal winter weather into a propaganda push to try to  comfort millions of cold, stranded and dismayed citizens, even  as storms threaten to continue lashing many areas.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the  country's worst power crisis, with one mountain-road accident  blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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China is not yet over the worst of a winter weather crisis that has killed 60 and doomed millions to a cold dark Lunar New Year holiday next week.
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Unusually severe winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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Chinese premier Wen Jiabao took a bullhorn in hand to encourage stranded passengers in the snow-bound city of Changsha, as unusually severe winter weather snarled transport throughout the south amidst the country's worst power crisis.
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The recent snowstorms that left millions without power in Southern China underscored the countryâs heavy dependence on coal and laid bare the glaring inadequacies of its production and distribution cycle.
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Chinese authorities work to restore power to millions, as the snow-hit country begins to celebrate Lunar New Year.
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At least 25 people were killed as a bus plunged off an icy roadway in China Tuesday, the latest casualties in a surge of severe winter weather that has disrupted the country's busiest holiday travel season and stranded hundreds of thousands of Chinese
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Chaotic winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - While winter snowstorms cancelled many reunion dinners, Beijingers started the New Year with a spending spree, shelling out millions on festive gifts and goods, Xinhua news agency said.