BEIJING – Despite the progress that the Chinese government has made in containing the spread of AIDS, China still faces a “severe task” in preventing and treating the disease, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday….
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Fire fighters have just put out a warehouse fire which started at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday in Wuhan, capital of central China”s Hubei Province. Eight people were rescued from the fire and rushed to the hospital,…
This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-size module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose…
The proportion of Chinese among the world’s population has dropped from 22 percent to 19 percent over the past 30 years, a government official said on Monday. China’s population by the end of 2010, 1.339…
Eight students from the Middle School Attached to China Conservatory made a suicide pact after being advised by the school to quit after they failed to pass more than one third of all final tests…
BEIJING – The flooding of an iron ore mine in East China trapped 24 miners underground late Sunday. It was the most recent disaster in a spate of mine accidents that have occurred in the…
Spoiled leftovers have been identified as the cause in a food poisoning case that hospitalized 42 kindergartners in east Zhejiang Province, local authorities said Monday. The students at an unlicensed kindergarten in the Xiaoshan District…
The expected retirement of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming risks diminishing the NBA’s once-burgeoning popularity in the country, with many local fans saying they would no longer watch NBA games. Yao’s expected retirement comes at an already…
China and the world tuned in as the curtains were raised at the Beijing MasterCard Centre tonight, waiting with excitement to see who would be crowned the new Miss Universe China. Zilin Luo, the contestant no….
Shanghai’s subway operator has dispatched extra subway staff to a handful of stations to help facilitate rush hour traffic flows along the steps as select subway escalators are shut for maintenance checks, after an escalator…