The 60.91 km highway linking up Shangguan Town and Heqing County in Dali Prefecture opened to traffic on Dec 26.

China resumed diplomatic relations with Sao Tome and Principe in Beijing on Monday, after the African nation cut "diplomatic ties" with the Taiwan region last week.

Altogether 226 patients got free medical service, of whom 68 received surgeries, including 37 male and 31 female.

In Binchuan County, which administers the Kangning village, 600 families have left their old houses and moved into new ones.

The Yunnan sections of the Shanghai-Kunming and Yunnan-Guangxi high speed railway (HSR) lines are set to go into operation on Dec 28.

Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) held the 6th annual new year party for international students on December 23.

The west development strategy covers 11 provinces and autonomous regions including Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan and others.

Yee was born on Nov 29, 1921 in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province of China. He served as an interpreter for the Flying Tigers until 1942.

Vendors in China's Yunnan Province are putting fresh air into sealed plastic bags and selling it online for 18.8 yuan ($2.7) per bag.

The branch of Line 1, Kunming Rail Transit, will be put into trial operation at 15:30 pm on Dec 26.

Journalists were invited to take a train ride on Dec 20, experiencing the Shanghai-Kunming HSR at a speed of 300 km/h.

The fourth regular exchange visits by China-GMS media groups was launched in Kunming on Dec 23.

Yunnan province's city of Pu'er is for the first time holding an exhibition about another world famous beverage: French red wine.

A K9832 train loaded with passengers arrived at Yuxi Railway Station at 12:04 am, December 15.

On December 15, a medical team of eight was sent to Luang Prabang, Laos by the First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province.

"Without Confucius Institutes，I would never have set foot in Bangladesh in my life," said Guo Lei.

Representatives reached the Kunming Consensus on Serving the Belt and Road and Building the Southern Silk Road.

Han Yiqiang has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for poaching 6 and selling at least 4 wild birds called Chrysolophus amherstiae.

Artists from China, Laos Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam exchanged artistic at the cultural event.

Primatologists in Yunnan province's protected Gaoligong Nature Reserve published a study on Myanmar snub-nosed monkeys.

According to Xu, it's good to stay with the other dwarfs in the empire without discrimination. "Most of the visitors here can respect us."

Yunnan Lucky Air opened a direct air route between Kunming in Yunnan Province and Penang in Malaysia on Tuesday.

Covering 1,000 km, the 12-day transporting journey by the alloy steel marks the beginning of a new international freight mode.

Tilahun Ayele from Ethiopia timed two hours 21 minutes and 58 seconds to win the 2016 SCO Kunming International Marathon on Dec 17.

The Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia that spans Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China's Yunnan province.