Los Angeles Times
China's nature reserves record rise in migratory birds
Hundreds of endangered black-necked cranes and whooper swans have arrived early at key nature reserves across China, signaling both a successful migration season and the fruitful results of intensified conservation efforts.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Curious cubs learn to crawl at Chengdu panda base
Recently released footage from Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province shows a group of panda newborns practicing their first crawls across a patch of grass, brimming with curiosity.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
School uses app to fight addictive apps
Students keep phones but are no longer glued to them, officials say
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
New DNA study unlocks origins, social structure of ancient Shimao people in northwest China
A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a gigantic complex of prehistoric ruins on the northern edge of the Loess Plateau in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has unlocked clues that could decode the population structure and kinship systems of the ancient people who inhabited the area.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Beijing Daxing International Airport's yearly passenger throughput hits new high
The Beijing Daxing International Airport, a major aviation hub, has set a new record as of Saturday by handling over 50 million passenger trips in a year for the first time since its opening in 2019, according to the latest official data released by the airport on Sunday.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Guangdong unveils its development plan for next five years
On December 8th, 2025, Guangdong officially released the recommendations for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan (the \"Plan Recommendations\").
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
3 hikers dead on Mt. Baldy; calls grow for trail closures
Officials urge Forest Service to address dangers
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
A Dutch-speaking internet celebrity's one day in Shanghai
In early October, on Shanghai's Bund Pedestrian Street, our reporter met Fingal Myrddin Grünbauer, a post-2000s young man from the Netherlands.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Masterpieces from Palace Museum on display in Vienna
A special exhibition featuring masterpieces from China's Palace Museum opened on Tuesday in Vienna to commemorate the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Austria.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Nuclear-capable Russian missiles enter active service in Belarus
A defense video released by Moscow shows the combat system in training.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Bots, banking, stablecoins to dominate fintech
Industry leaders are betting that 2026 could mark a major inflection point.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Environmental journalist and granddaughter of JFK
Caroline Kennedy’s daughter had acute myeloid leukemia, diagnosed in 2024.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Saudi Arabia bombs Yemeni port city
Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla on Tuesday, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces — a significant move in a country located along a key international trade route that threatens to bring new risks to the Persian Gulf region.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Cities cannot punish outreach workers for helping homeless people under new state law
State Senate Bill 634 would have made a big splash if it survived in the form Pasadena Democrat Sasha Renée Pérez originally intended.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Chalamet brought a lot to the table for this role
Actor practiced table tennis relentlessly, and it seems to show in film ‘Marty Supreme.’
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Neiman Marcus parent sells Beverly Hills site
The land below the Beverly Hills flagship store of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus has been sold to a New York investor as the owners of the department store chain sell property to pay debts.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Silver swings amid concerns about overheating
Silver recovered some losses after its biggest one-day drop in more than five years, with a lingering supply shortage keeping the metal on track for a monthly gain of about a third.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Slumping Kings can't slow Avalanche
Nathan MacKinnon scored the 399th goal of his career and Brock Nelson had a goal and an assist as the surging Colorado Avalanche won their eighth in a row 5-2 over the visiting Kings on Monday night.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Mickey Rourke faces an eviction case
Property owner claims that the actor owes nearly $60,000 in unpaid rent.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Making a buzz in science, on the page
'Ologies' podcaster Alie Ward picks five books that show why knowledge is power.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Endangered snub-nosed monkey population climbs to 350 in southwest China reserve
The population of endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys in the Yunlong Tianchi National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province has risen to 350, reflecting steady growth and improved habitat conditions, according to a recent ecological survey.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Hainan's new tourism regulations take effect as opening-up drive deepens
South China's tropical island province of Hainan -- a popular tourist destination -- is advancing its opening-up policy as new tourism regulations come into force on Monday.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
China's northern regions fuel winter economy with ice-snow tourism
As temperatures continue to fall, northern China is transforming its rich \"cold resources\" into hot consumer attractions from slow-travel experiences in Heilongjiang's frost-covered forests to snowy holidays for schoolchildren in Xinjiang.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Scenic spots in Gansu offer half-price entry in off-peak season
Dunhuang City in northwest China's Gansu Province officially launched 2025-2026 winter-spring off-peak season tourism discount program on Monday, offering half-price admission for renowned local attractions.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Indoor, outdoor skiing ignite winter tourism boom in Sichuan
A winter tourism boom is taking hold in southwest China's Sichuan Province, fueled by a mix of large-scale indoor ski facilities and high-altitude outdoor resorts.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Colorful late autumn foliage lights up China's Longtan River
Trees along the banks of the Longtan River in Nanyang City, in central China's Henan Province, are resplendent in their late autumn foliage, with leaves turning a myriad shades of red, gold and green.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Low temperatures bring picturesque frosted scenery in northeast China
As temperatures plunged in the Greater Khingan Range in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Ganhe National Park has transformed into a breathtaking winter landscape.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
China’s Yongzhou city unveils tourism campaign, blending football event, culture and easy flights
Yongzhou City in central China's Hunan Province launched a sports-culture-tourism campaign on Friday, aiming to boost its city profile and enhance tourism appeal.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Thousands of black-necked cranes return to southwest China's nature reserve for winter
A growing number of black-necked cranes have returned to a nature reserve in southwest China's Guizhou Province to spend the winter, thanks to the ongoing ecological protection efforts.
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December 31, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Judge grants police request to block Reiner autopsy results
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has agreed to bar the release of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner's autopsy reports at the request of law enforcement investigating the death of the Hollywood legend and his photographer wife.
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