GUANGZHOU – Cheng Dongwei looked disappointed when his mother once again told him on QQ chat: “No, you can’t go out until I get home this evening.” A minute before, the 11-year-old boy had used…
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Dozens of reporters surround Wang Yongping, former spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, after a press conference on July 24, a day after a deadly train crash in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Photo: CFP It’s been…
The release of government spending details for various departments has not eased the concerns of the public, who are urging more figures to be disclosed and doubt the legitimacy of some budget increases. A total…
The launcher and manager of the country’s most prominent charity program, Project Hope, which helps rural children continue schooling, denied Thursday it embezzled funds for a non-governmental education initiative in Africa. The announcement by the…
BEIJING – Child rescue institutions can now apply to a court to deprive parents or other legal guardians of their custody rights if they allow their children to beg or steal on the street, according…
A county government in East China’s Jiangxi Province said no one was injured after police reacted to a protest involving a crowd of villagers outside a polluting factory’s gates on Tuesday. At least 10 residents…
SHANGHAI – As the parents of the first children raised under the one-child policy enter retirement age, nearly 40 percent of this eastern municipality’s residents aged between 60 and 69 live in “empty nest families”,…
Wang Liming, a first-grade pupil at New Hope School, which was closed by education authorities in Beijing’s Haidian district, holds a notice that says she can start classes at a public school on Aug 26….
The Malaysian government is investigating a fake press conference held in Hangzhou under its name and reported on extensively by official Chinese media that has forced Malaysian officials to defend the safety of the country’s…
More than 10 legal advisory agencies have shown interest in handling a suit being brought against US-based oil company ConocoPhillips over environmental damage caused by oil spills in Bohai Bay, maritime authorities announced on Thursday….