The tawny sandstorms that shrouded much of the mainland in a gloomy smog-out in March were mainly from southern Mongolia, an environment expert said in Friday's People's Daily.
The family of two victims of a self-immolation act in eastern China's Jiangsu Province have reached a compensation agreement with the local government, a government spokesperson said Friday.
Authorities in northwest China's Gansu Province said Friday they had caught several cell phone retailers suspected of selling obscene content to mobile subscribers.
Wei Liang, a biological researcher with the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), was arrested on bribery charges recently, at a time when the national drug watchdog, already teetering amid an escalating vaccine scandal, is undergoing a series of department reshuffles.
Health experts in Shanghai are calling for more protection for young children as the latest research shows about half of the youngsters are suffering from secondhand smoke.
Despite repeated government warnings of overheating in the property market, prices in China's luxury residential sector are expected to continue to rocket.
The police have detained a man suspected of shooting dead a high-ranking police officer in Tongjiang city of Heilongjiang province.
A man who won a whopping 32-million-yuan ($4.57 million) lottery jackpot in Northeast China's Jilin province collected his prize on Wednesday.
The year-on-year rise of China's housing prices hit a historic high of 25 percent last year, according to a report released by the China Land Survey and Planning Institution.
Local prosecutors in Zhejiang province have started to look into an alleged rape case which local police refused to investigate.
Public concern over quality control at a pharmaceutical company in East China's Jiangsu province has widened from the rabies vaccine to the H1N1 vaccine.
Among the 27 state administrations and agencies that are required to publicize their annual reports, 15 have failed to meet their March 31st deadline this year, comprising Beijing's commitment to more political transparency, the Legal Daily reported Thursday.