Baidu, China's largest Internet search engine, was the target of a four-hour cyber attack yesterday, the most severe since it was established in 1999.
Local authorities further lifted the ban on Internet service in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region yesterday, allowing partial access to two of China's most popular websites following nearly six months of closure after the deadly July 5 riot in the capital, Xinjiang-based tianshannet.com.cn reported yesterday.
A Chinese graduate's record-setting $8,888,888 donation to his school at Yale University has stirred wide debate at home. Survey
Two senior judges have proposed a new law that would include possible death sentences for drunken drivers found guilty of causing fatal road accidents and then trying to flee the crime scene, the Jinan Daily reported Tuesday.
Four suspects suspected of stabbing a 22-year-old university student to death on New Year's Eve were caught in Hangzhou, of east China's Zhejiang province, local media reported Saturday.
The second family tragedy in a residential complex in Daxing district has instilled fears in older homeowners that their neighborhood might be "cursed".
As the year 2009 comes to a close, it does so having been a monumental year for China's LGBT community.
More than 10 gay websites in China have been recently forced to close or had their accounts deleted by their server hosting companies, an NGO said yesterday.
Zhu Haiyang, a PhD candidate at America's Virginia Tech, who beheaded his Beijing friend Xin Yang last year, was sentenced to life in jail on Tuesday.
Two of the city's largest residential communities are fighting online over plans for subway line 14.
The death of a mentally-ill man who allegedly stabbed a policeman at a detention house has prompted concerns about police abuse.
A man who posted online information about his dead schoolmate's husband, leading to a human flesh search, was ordered to pay 5,000 yuan in compensation to the husband, the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled yesterday.