Post bureau to launch new standard

The State Post Bureau of China is preparing to launch in August the country’s first rating standard for express delivery companies, an expert from the Logistics Association of China told the Global Times on Monday….

Officials close 2 of 5 fake Apple stores

A customer looks at products in a fake Apple store in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, on July 22. The store was made famous by a blog posting that said even a store worker there…

Train crash pushes stock prices down

BEIJING – Railway company stocks plunged on Monday in a panic selling amid investor concerns that the high-speed train crash in East China on Saturday may trigger a substantial slowdown of the country’s investment in…

Hasty burial of wreckage sparks suspicion

Beijing – Burying parts of the wreckage from Saturday’s deadly high-speed rail accident was a part of the rescue operation and not an attempt to hide evidence, a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways said….

Investor concerns push stock prices down

BEIJING – Railway company stocks plunged on Monday in a panic selling amid investor concerns that the high-speed train crash in East China on Saturday may trigger a substantial slowdown of the country’s investment in…

Dedicated postie’s 15-year, 200,000km journey

Luo Xiying, a female postal worker, carries a bag of mail across a small bridge in Chenfang town, Qianshan county, East China’s Jiangxi province, July 19, 2011. Luo, who has been delivering mail since 1996,…

Unanswered questions over rail dispatch system

BEIJING – Insiders have questioned why the rail dispatch system failed to prevent the rear-end collision between two bullet trains on Saturday in Wenzhou. The first bullet train was traveling south from the Zhejiang provincial…

Rescued girl shows vital signs, tough road ahead

WENZHOU, Zhejiang -The last survivor pulled from Saturday’s deadly train accident – a 2-year-old girl – showed good vital signs the morning after her first surgery. But she will have to live in a changed…