Doctors at the Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, Liaoning province, successfully removed a boy's additional fingers and toes in a surgical operation that lasted more than five hours on Tuesday.
Disease control and prevention authorities in Guangzhou have received reports that some children became ill or paralyzed after receiving a vaccine, amid the ongoing vaccine scandal in Shanxi province.
Google is standing firm on its plan to withdraw its search service from China, saying that it "will not be syndicating censored searches to partners in China" either.Users' reaction mixed
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A peasant in northeast China's Liaoning Province died in police custody Tuesday, a few hours after he was detained on suspicion of theft, local authorities confirmed Wednesday.
Google Inc took a major step in its row with the Chinese government on Tuesday by redirecting traffic from its Beijing-based search engine to its service in Hong Kong.
Family members of children who received a vaccine and then died or became ill want "sincere communication" with Shanxi provincial authorities, following the local government's announcement on Monday that an investigation has begun.
Shanxi provincial health authorities flouted regulations on vaccine management from 2006 to 2008, a senior local official admitted on Monday.
Editors with the nation's most popular science fiction magazine have issued an open letter asking for the editor-in-chief to be fired, accusing him of being corrupt and dictatorial.
Sun Wei was born and raised in far Northeast China, but you would not be able to tell from his strong southern accent. After more than six years in Shenzhen, a metropolis in Guangdong province, he said he has totally shed his "countryside skin" in an effort to fit in.
The Chinese Writers Association (CWA) has urged Google to fulfill its commitment to settle a copyright infringement dispute over its digitizing of more than 8,000 books without authorization.
The controversy over Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi's relief fund established after the May 12 earthquake of 2008 indicates the need for stronger laws to regulate China's charity system, experts say.
With the inefficiency of current techniques for detecting and identifying the use of illegal cooking oil in China, there is an urgent need to improve kitchen waste recycling procedures to prevent the continued use of such oil in food production, a leading food expert has said.