Chinese Foreign Ministry's newly-registered microblog has drawn considerable attention at home, marking the government's latest efforts to connect to some of China's 457 million Internet users through increasingly popular web services.
Dai Qingcheng, the 46-year-old farmer from East China's Anhui province who was sentenced to death in December for raping 116 women between 1993 and 2009, is appealing his conviction.
Most of the 116 women who were raped by a farmer over 17 years in East China's Anhui chose bitter silence, rather than justice, for fear of losing face, media reported.
A video appearing to show more than 700 primary school children dancing to Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" at a rural school in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has taken the web by storm.
Thanks to a test-run of new media platforms, China's 457 million Internet users can now keep tabs on government agencies.
Suspect Zhou Yuxin said his father-in-law had refused to lend him money and that, coupled with suspicions about his wife's fidelity, triggered his killing spree that claimed ten lives.
Can romance be taught? Is falling in love so important that it has to be included in courses in universities?
Over 500 dogs being delivered to a butcher house were saved by a Chinese animal protection organization and redeemed with 100,000 yuan ($15,300) Friday.
China's National Nuclear Emergency Coordination Committee said in a daily notice that no obvious change had been found in the levels of radioactive material in the environment and food samples on the Chinese mainland, on Sunday.
Chinese consumers will soon be able to buy dairy products that are produced by genetically modified cattle and contain most of the nutrients as in human breast milk.
The strict parenting style advocated by Amy Chua, the Yale law professor, in her latest book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is still popular in the country today, according to a recent survey.
China's food producers are receiving surging orders from Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hurt the agricultural sector of Japan and the ensuing nuclear radiation raised consumers' concerns about the safety of home-grown products.