Groundwater in about 55 percent of the cities monitored across China is not safe to drink, according to a national annual report on the situation of the country's land and resources in 2011.
Liberation Army Daily warned that any attempt to seize Huangyan Island's sovereignty will not be accepted.
True story behind Huangyan Island dispute
Trips canceled over Manila protest fears
Front Pages, May 10
Police have detained a British man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Beijing.
A 56-year-old man has been detained in southwest China's Yunnan Province who was implicated in the missing of at least seven teenagers -- including a boy confirmed murdered.
A mother-to-be is threatening to sue her former employer for sacking her after she became pregnant.
Front Pages, May 9
The Scarborough Shoal does belong to China which discovered it and drew it in a map as early as 1279 during the Yuan Dynasty.
China's health authorities said on Tuesday that medications made of human remains were not found in the country, but they will investigate further.
Chinese are used to boiling tap water before drinking it because they think this can make the water clean, but a recent investigative report finds otherwise.
Front Pages, May 8
More than 20 high school students in Hubei province had intravenous infusions of amino acids in order to better prepare for the national college entrance exam.
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