More than two weeks after the amended Criminal Law took effect, which stipulates that drunk driving is a criminal offense, the Chinese public and legal experts are still debating the amendments. The amended Criminal Law…
Category: Society
Thirty years after Deng Xiaoping said it was ok to allow some to get rich first, the annual “Hurun Wealth Report” released in Shanghai last month, showed almost 1 million people in China are…
Nearly half of the residents in the Guangdong provincial capital said they feel dissatisfied with the crowding they encounter when they take public transport, a recent survey showed. Of the residents polled by the Guangzhou…
China plans to expand a piloted pension program to 60 percent of its rural areas this year, an increase from the original target of 40 percent, Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang said Friday. Zhang made…
China’s central government has encouraged more media scrutiny of its increasingly tainted quality of food, ranging from milks and buns with chemical additives, filthy cooking oil to tainted pork and beef. The relentless headlines in…
China put more than 150 desert islands on the market, but eager buyers found more than they bargained for.
BEIJING – A senior judge has suggested that not all drunken drivers should be held criminally responsible, despite the fact that the newly amended Criminal Law defines it as a crime. Starting on May 1,…
The news that local family planning officials have been seizing babies and selling them overseas for adoption has sent shock waves through the nation. The actions of the officials have been condemned for sheer inhumanity…
Museum burglars bring to mind a Sean Connery type sneaking through a ceiling. Museum security was usually thought to be so good that those looking to steal art would be forced to come up with…
A bun shop in Shanghai, days after a supplier’s license was revoked. The nation’s food scandals are proliferating again.