Liu Weizhong, 54, director of the Gansu provincial Department of Health, was given the nickname "pig foot director" by netizens after advocating the medical benefits of pig feet on his microblog account.
The Internet-savvy health chief of Gansu province has kicked up a storm by claiming medical workers had mastered a martial arts technique.
A fund dedicated to fighting child abduction via online microblogging services was established Thursday by the China Social Assistance Foundation.
Yibin Airport, renamed Yibin Wuliangye Airport, is to be relocated and rebuilt in Zongchang township in the city of Yibin, Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Front Pages, May 24
A kindergarten teacher apologizes to parents for using ultraviolet lamps, or UV lamps, on her students in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, May 22, 2012.
Another 10 tons of suspect oil needs to be recalled in Yunnan as the manufacturer believed to be adding industrial animal fat to edible oil products.
Beijing's new sanitation standards for public toilets include one item that has people buzzing: No more than two flies allowed.
Food safety watchdogs in Southwest China's Yunnan province asked a local oil company to stop manufacturing edible oil products they suspect contain industrial fatty oils.
Front Pages, May 23
Ninety-four percent of participants in a recent online survey agreed that the financial conditions, real estate assets and job status of foreigners living in China should be more closely scrutinized.
A toddler has finally been reunited with his father after being sold more than 10 times by human traffickers.