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Fish in more than 6.7 square-km waters, including a 4 square-km lake, had become extinct after fish farmers poisoned the water with pesticides in east China's Anhui Province, local authorities said Wednesday.
The drowning of a central China detainee in a 0.25-square-meter basin was an act of suicide, concluded provincial investigators Wednesday.
The deadly stabbings in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday were not aimed at school children, but were random assaults by a man who had been reported as being mentally ill, local authorities said on Tuesday.
An investigation has begun into the sudden death of an inmate who allegedly died after being forced to take a cold shower on a chilly morning in 2008 at a labor camp in central China's Henan Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
A man stabbed to death an 8-year-old boy and a 70-year-old woman on Monday afternoon near a primary school in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, police said.
Gang boss Wang Xiaojun was sentenced to life in jail on Monday for crimes including running brothels and gambling websites in this Southwest municipality.
The 2007 slave labor scandal, which came to light after 400 parents posted an online petition saying their missing children had been sold to illegal brick kilns in Shanxi and Henan provinces to work as slaves, shocked the whole country and toppled many officials.
A Chinese man who conducted an Internet smear campaign that falsely accused his ex-girlfriend of working as a prostitute and spreading AIDS has been jailed for three years.
China has signed preliminary cooperation agreements with the State of California to help build high-speed rail lines in the West Coast state, as Beijing races to become a major exporter of bullet trains that could travel up to 215 miles an hour, the New York Times reported Thursday.
For rent: a single bunk with a small bedside stand, squeezed between white-washed pasteboard walls with a wire mesh overhead, no window or washing room, not even any standing room. For less than 250 yuan ($37) per month, 25-year-old Zhang Qi moved in as its first tenant.
An illegal golf course under construction in an ecological conservation area in Erdos in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region is endangering precious plants beneficial to soil and water conservation in such a parched environment.
The salvage of relics from a sunken ancient merchant vessel has resumed after six months of suspension in Shantou, a coastal city in South China's Guangdong province.
