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…
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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,…
On a tour in Beijing, you may find yourself in a drugstore, being diagnosed with some illnesses previously unknown to you and buying expensive traditional Chinese medicines. Foreigners accuse a retail store of Beijing-based Tongrentang…
The Chinese mainland’s biggest antibiotics producer, in Harbin , Heilongjiang province , has been polluting its neighbourhood with poisonous gas and wastewater since the 1950s, according to a China Central Television report yesterday. CCTV report…
BEIJING – Red songs are no longer the exclusive property of Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality The whole nation has begun a musical campaign to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party…
CHANGSHA – A high school graduate fell to his death from a dormitory building Tuesday in central Hunan Province ahead of the national college entrance examination, local authorities confirmed Wednesday. The public security bureau in…
BEIJING – By the end of last year, the families of 272,000 victims of melamine-tainted milk and dairy products had signed up for one-time compensation payments, said a compensation fund manager. At least six babies…