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A dozen families are angry at an official's response to the vaccine scandal that has reportedly killed several children and sickened dozens of others.
Probe ordered into tainted vaccines
The debate over China's currency policy is heating up among economists with Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman Stephen Roach saying that a sharp upward revaluation of the yuan would lead to a disastrous outcome for the United States and it would end up as a "lose-lose situation" for both Washington and Beijing.
The number of patients sickened by lead poisoning rose to 29 Sunday in Chenzhou City of central China's Hunan Province, health officials said.
Chinese netizens did not expect the Google issue to snowball into a political minefield and become a tool in the hands of vested interests abroad to attack China under the pretext of Internet freedom.
BEIJING - Though 2010 is considered the "widow year" in the Chinese calendar, it did not stop newlyweds and couples from flocking to the China International Wedding Expo, which opened on Friday in the Beijing Exhibition Center.
The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), China's food safety watchdog agency, has issued two emergency notices to its bureaus nationwide to crack down on the use of swill-cooked oil and disposable chopsticks, both highly unhealthy products.
A middle school student who claimed to be the second Sprite mercury-poisoning victim has confessed he poisoned himself, the Beijing police said on Thursday.
A leading food expert revealed Thursday that one in every 10 meals in the country may be cooked with illegal cooking oil.
The latest draft of China's first law on "anti-cruelty to animals", which was made public on Wednesday to solicit opinion, has banned zoos from maltreating animals by not giving them adequate food and water, an additional stipulation after 13 Siberian tigers died within three months at a zoo in Northeast China.
More mainland tourists are expected to spend money on overseas travel this year, said a report by a think tank to the national tourism authority.
China's top quality watchdog announced Thursday that Hewlett-Packard had violated China's consumer rights regulations and that its laptops did have faulty graphic chips and display screens.
An anti-incineration expert is "seriously concerned" about the local government's amendment to an advisory paper on garbage treatment.
