A cold front is expected to hit parts of central and eastern China beginning Wednesday, a weather forecast said on Monday.
About 9,000 people in a northeastern China county have to line up in front of temporary water supply stations to get drinking water after their tap water was found polluted, authorities said Sunday.
A clean water supply returned on Monday to a part of a northeastern China county where thousands of people had suffered from polluted tap water during the weekend, local authorities said.
A new memorandum was adopted at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, bringing the group one step closer to expansion.
President Hu Jintao, who arrived in the Russian capital on Wednesday night, will start his two-day visit to Russia with a heavy package of political and economic deals to be signed.