In the urbanization under way now in China, some local government officials have broken the law by taking over farmland from farmers and selling it, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan reiterated on Wednesday that the municipality's reform on the hukou system does not force rural residents to give up farmland in exchange for an urban residency and the benefits that come with it.
The book, The ABCs of Sexual Relationships, delved into sex, a taboo subject in China. It took Zhang more than eight months to convince his wife the book was part of his duty as director of the Guangdong Provincial Commission of Population and Family Planning.
China's Internet firm Tencent on Wednesday said it is shutting down its popular instant messaging service QQ on computers installed with anti-virus software run by the company's rival Qihoo 360, as a war between the two software giants escalated over the course of the past two months.
A vice mayor in south China's Guangdong Province is being investigated for violations of Communist Party officials' code of conduct after his "love affairs," exposed by Internet users, sparked massive public outrage, local discipline authorities confirmed Wednesday.
The latest group of netizens has been named and shamed for spreading online rumors and disturbing public order by a website that assesses Internet credibility in Shanghai.
A coal mine operator in Baise city, Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has set up a cafe in the Donghuai Coal Mine as a part of the measures taken to improve underground working conditions, Xinhua reporters saw.
China's list of violent and bloody home demolitions gained two new entries on Saturday, as a man set himself on fire in protest in Northeast China and another man in North China was beaten to death after he refused to move out.
Located within the second ring road of Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, Zhao's house is the last remaining one in the village of Zhaojiadui, which has been flattened for a redevelopment project.
A court in Hunan province said on Sunday that it had jailed two police officers and three other suspects for the attempted rape of two teenage girls, one of whom jumped to her death while trying to resist her attackers.
To run or not to run? That is the question faced by thousands of students at about 100 universities across China, where they will be required to have their fingerprints scanned for a two-month long-distance running program, which begins on Nov 12.
Only 0.5 percent of Chinese men are consistently satisfied with their sexual experiences and the amount of sex they are getting is "far less" than people enjoy in Western countries, according to a new survey.