Soaring housing prices and the high cost of living in major cities are pushing some people to seek greener pastures elsewhere.
A curious bystander was accidentally shot dead by police as he watched officers confront a man armed with a machete in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Mei Duanshi handles grains of rice as if they are precious diamonds. "Have you ever seen such good, quality rice before?" asked the 61-year-old farmer after pouring a small pile of Chinese-grown grains onto his kitchen table.
Google's ploy to avoid censoring its search results in China by rerouting traffic through its Hong Kong servers came in for severe criticism from netizens.
Weekly Quotes (March 20- 26): Tough time will not last forever
Next time you say the word da bao (box it) at a restaurant, be aware, you could end up with a life-threatening disease. At least, that's what an expert in food packaging claims.
The man accused of stabbing eight students to death and injuring five others outside a school in Fujian province has confessed to carrying out the brutal attack "to take revenge on society" for his miserable life, police said on Wednesday.
China's latest must-have luxury for the ultra-rich is a large, slobbery dog with massive amounts of hair and best known for herding sheep in Tibet.
About 80 relatives of a boy who died mysteriously at his primary school in Heshan city of Guangdong province gathered in front of the school gate on Wednesday, demanding authorities to stop playing "hide-and-seek" and to tell the truth about what really happened.
Windows Live Messenger, or MSN Messenger, saw major malfunctions on Tuesday. Users from all over the country complained that their friends, co-workers and relatives saw them as "offline" when they were actually logged on, the Beijing Times reported on Wednesday.
Classes resumed on Wednesday at a local primary school where a man stabbed eight children to death on Tuesday, but some shocked students remained at home, while psychologists try to help traumatized students process their pain.
Google users had a mixed reaction to the announced departure of the search giant from the Chinese mainland.