The Big Test

Does China’s nerve-racking gaokao college-entrance exam really identify the country’s best and brightest, or is it even sillier and more unfair than the SAT? SHANGHAI — For three days each June, all of China quiets…

Chinese debate raising income tax threshold exemption

Chinese citizens around the country have been debating a proposal to raise the threshold for individual income tax exemption to 3,000 yuan per month. The NPC Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, on Wednesday publicized suggestions…

New round of heavy rain claims seven more lives

BEIJING – The floods in Central and South China have killed another seven people and left seven more missing during the past three days, the government said on Wednesday.  Heavy rains that have lashed several…

Students on spending spree after college entrance exam

 BEIJING — College candidates are on a spending spree to celebrate their survival of the National College Entrance Examination, which concluded on Thursday. The world’s largest standardized college entrance examination, more than 9 million students…

Man who slashed CCTV staff arrested

A man who slashed a female CCTV employee in the face as she walked on the street was arrested Friday. The employee was near the former CCTV headquarters in Haidian when a man approached her…

Landslide traps over 100 on Tibet highway

LHASA – More than 100 people in nearly 60 vehicles were trapped after a rain-triggered landslide Monday interrupted traffic on a highway in Tibet autonomous region. The debris of the landslide, which happened around 8…