A man recently tracked down his missing son, who had been gone for 19 years, and found he had been adopted by a couple in the United States.
A foreign teacher working at Chengdu University of Science and Technology in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, saved eight quake victims three years ago, but his Chinese colleagues only recently found out about his heroics.
"Microresumes" have become especially popular this May, as prospective university graduates are getting ready to enter the workforce. Graduate students are particularly likely to post their resumes on their microblogs.
The obituary notice of Ai Weiwei, an online model in East China's Fujian province, has been widely circulated in cyber space, generating sorrow at the loss of a young life and retraining the spotlight on health concerns of young workers.
Low incomes, soaring housing prices and traffic jams have hampered the capital city's ambition to lure talent, according to the 2011 Blue Book of Beijing's Talent.
An expert with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) said Friday multiple factors have caused watermelons to burst in East China's Jiangsu province this month.
China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, began to increase its water release on Friday to ease severe drought plaguing downstream rice-growing areas.
A Chinese court on Friday rejected a death sentence appeal filed by a music student who stabbed a cafe waitress to death to cover up a hit-and-run accident.
Another plan to convert an ancient palace site into a luxury club has reportedly been uncovered, this time in the Chengde Mountain Resort.
China on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit launched by several New York residents against a leading Internet search engine and the Chinese government, saying the country's management of the Internet is a sovereign act.
Volunteers in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, bought 22 dogs with 1,450 yuan ($223) in a pet market in Xianyang, another city of the province, in order to prevent the animals from being killed for food.
A 28-year-old woman in Huizhou of Guangdong province bought one of the most expensive apartments in Hong Kong recently, saying the property was a gift from her husband.