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Three managers of a copper plant have been detained and four local officials have been suspended from work or resigned after the plant was blamed for contaminating a river in Shanghang county in East China's Fujian province.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) Friday ordered prosecutors to compensate victims of wrongful imprisonment at a rate of 125.43 yuan (18.5 U.S. dollars) per day of incarceration, up 13.44 yuan per day from last year.
China's food safety watchdog Friday passed McDonald's chicken McNuggets as safe for human consumption, saying a petrol-based chemical additive in the fast food was within legal limits.
Many Chinese 'elites' buy fake academic credentials to burnish their careers.
More civil servants smoke, and smoke more expensive cigarettes, than medical staff and teachers, according to the latest survey by the Jiangsu provincial center for disease control.
In a recent survey, about 80 percent of the 5,000 Beijing white-collar workers polled said they hoped China would one day host the world's premier sports event. But 45 percent said, considering China's current state in the sport, that it was not capable of hosting World Cup.
A 60-year-old woman in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, was hiring people to kill frogs in a residential community pond, because they made "unbearable" noise at night.
Digitally dividing inheritance may be cheap and easy, but it also may not be legitimate.
Hackers are claiming online they can break into computer systems belonging to universities and certification institutes and change the scores of students.
Netizens will be able to communicate with the Beijing police through microblogs in the near future, with the founding of the Beijing police's first public relations branch.
Thousands of Chinese have joined a heated discussion about new rules that are designed to curb corruption and increase transparency about the assets of government officials.
The majority of participants in a recent online poll agreed with the collection of a pet dog tax, though experts warned it was not a final solution to the problems involved in keeping pets in cities.
