The tap water hasn’t stopped running in Sichuan Province’s second-largest prefecture-level city, but nobody can drink it after the Mianyang environmental protection bureau on Wednesday warned against unsafe manganese, ammonia and nitrogen pollution afflicting about…
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WENZHOU, Zhejiang – Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday ordered a swift and transparent probe into Saturday’s crash of two high-speed trains and asked that the result be made public. The crash in Wenzhou caused the…
CHENGDU – Residents of Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province, have begun buying bottled water in a panic after authorities there announced on Tuesday that the chief local water source had been contaminated by residue…
The family of a street vendor who is suspected to have been beaten to death by city management officers in a Southwest China city has allowed police to do an autopsy after a protest on…
More than 100 relatives of passengers killed in Saturday’s bullet train crash in Zhejiang Province protested at Wenzhou South Railway Station on Wednesday, demanding to know the “true reason” behind the accident, as Premier Wen…
Speeding into the future, we either adapt to living in the fast lane, or fall by the wayside. It’s a kind of bleak, Darwinian way of looking at things, but it has a measure of…
The animated TV series Train Hero scheduled to be shown on more than 100 TV channels in China beginning next month has been ironically termed “a miracle” by Internet users who have watched its online…
BEIJING — China’s high-speed rails under construction may cost up to 849.1 billion yuan ($131.79 billion), a brokerage firm estimates, after a train crash triggered financial concerns over the sector. About 26 high-speed rail lines,…
A millionaire from Shanxi province recently sweared he would buy an underground palace at the Eastern Royal Tombs of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) for 100 million yuan ($15.51 million) after he was told that the…
BEIJING – Two foreigners are in stable conditions after being seriously injured in the Wenzhou train crash, say doctors who treated them in intensive care units. Giovanni Pan, a 23-year-old Italian citizen of Chinese origin,…