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'Ice City' welcomes influx of tourists

By Dolly Dy-Zulueta | April 24, 2025 - 11:30am

For Filipinos and other Asian travelers who dream of experiencing just what it is like to be in a winter wonderland,...

Travel and Tourism

Explainer: Curling, and why you now need to know about it

By Ralph Edwin Villanueva | February 21, 2025 - 11:02am

If you are not an avid sports fan, chances are you do not know the sport curling. Here's what the sport is all about...

Sports

Largest indoor ice and snow theme park now fully operational

By Kristofer Purnell | July 17, 2024 - 12:34pm

China's Harbin Ice and Snow World, certified by the Guinness World Records as the "world's largest indoor ice and snow...

Travel and Tourism

Surviving the Ice City

By Iris Gonzales | February 2, 2020 - 12:00am

The thermometer wasn’t lying. It said -18 degrees Celsius when I arrived in Harbin one cold December night and it certainly...

Travel and Tourism

Oishi maker mulls Hong Kong IPO

By Iris Gonzales | September 3, 2015 - 10:00am

Snackfood maker Liwayway Holdings Co. Ltd. is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong next year,...

Business

Sinkhole in China captured on video swallowing 5 people

August 27, 2015 - 6:11am

A sinkhole in a northeastern Chinese city has swallowed five people in dramatic scenes that were captured on video.

World

Beijing air pollution at dangerously high levels

January 18, 2014 - 6:11am

Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog Thursday as the capital saw the season's first wave of extremely dangerous...

World

Beijing air pollution at dangerously high levels

January 16, 2014 - 11:31am

Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog Thursday as the capital saw the season's first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two...

World

WATCH: Ice festival dazzles in light

January 6, 2014 - 1:05pm

Tourists from all over the world braved the minus 20 degree temperatures in Harbin, China, to see the freezing wonderland...

Video Features

China residents drink pesticide in Beijing protest

By Gillian Wong | December 13, 2013 - 1:06am

A dozen residents of a central Chinese city protested the demolition of their homes by drinking pesticide in Beijing in a...

World