Li Lindong, a coal truck driver, was sentenced to death on Wednesday for killing a Mogolian herder, according to the Intermediate People’s Court of the Xilingol League in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The sentence was…
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BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) — China’s railway ministry announced Monday speed-based trial prices for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway. Tickets for trips on trains running at 300 kph will be priced between 555 yuan (85.6 U.S….
A formal official in north Hebei Province who gained national notoriety for forging documents to gain promotions and take over the estate of a dead man, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a…
BEIJING — A 21-year-old music student who accidentally struck a young woman with his car, then silenced her by stabbing her to death on the roadway, was executed Tuesday in Xi’an, in northwestern China, the…
The Shanghai Financial Association recently established two think tanks, a financial and shipping committee and an expert committee, based on nearly an entire year of preparation. The founding of the two think tanks is expected…
BEIJING — More than 9 million of China’s students started on Tuesday to take the world’s largest standardized college entrance examination. Construction sites across the country have been ordered to suspend work at night and…
Results from an internal government investigation into officials responsible for the Shanghai fire last November which killed 58 people have yet to be released to the public. (Beijing) — Several senior city officials in…
BEIJING — China’s first association of Internet music operators and Internet music content providers, the Internet Music Industry Development Consortium, has been formed in Beijing, according to a statement issued by Ministry of Culture…
A total of 750 kilograms of cabbage netted this farmer 170 yuan, hardly enough to buy a bag of fertilizer. Farmers at the wholesale market where there are few buyers. For months, farmer Liu Anxiu…
Zhen Ran was released in 2008 after five months confinement in a Beijing mental hospital. His Internet posts had criticized the government. Forced commitments to China’s mental hospitals are rising on the local-government level,…