Photo: Hangzhou's West Lake, a snowy icy paradise

17:18, January 27, 2018

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  China's largest inland saltwater lake sees record water rise

  Qinghai Lake, China's largest inland saltwater lake, saw a record increase of 0.4 meter in its water level last year, the highest during the past 13 years.The rise largely resulted from "unusually" abundant precipitation in the lake basin, which recorded average rainfall of 511 millimeters in 2017, 40 percent more than previous years, according to Dai Sheng, senior engineer at

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  Photo exhibition at Nixon Library recalls bridges between China, US

  Late US President Richard Nixon has entered the spotlight again, as a special photo exhibition mirroring his historic visit to China in 1972 and its impact was inaugurated on Tuesday at his hometown of Yorba Linda in California.The exhibition presented at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum was co-sponsored by the Nixon Foundation, Xinhua News Agency and China's national tourism

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  Pendjari park hopes to be new elephant sanctuary in West Africa

  Matthieu Yoa smiles at a job well done. The ranger and his colleagues have just put a satellite tracking collar on an elephant in the Pendjari National Park in northern Benin."It was very strong," he says in halting French, visibly emotional about what he has just done to help protect the animal.Although Yoa was born just a few kilometres (miles)