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,…
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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…
In order to help its students improve their mental capacity to deal with stress, Hongtang High School in Ningbo city, in East China’s Zhejiang province, has introduced a psychological venting room, Zhejiang Daily reported on…
Three separate deaths of college-entrance-exam takers were reported in Hubei and Jiangsu provinces Monday, the first day of the exam, or Gaokao, highlighting the tremendous pressure that young examinees have to bear during China’s most…
A 21-year-old Chinese college student has been executed for stabbing to death a woman after the car he was driving struck and injured her, a case that has transfixed and outraged the nation. Yao Jiaxin,…
BEIJING – Onlookers can be forgiven for thinking that the whiskered middle-aged man walking into the exam room is a father of one of the test takers there. “] Liang Shi, 44, attends a class…