Director Ang Lee's sexually-explicit spy thrille Se, Jie (Lust, Caution) was the surprise winner of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with Brokeback Mountain.
Health Minister Chen Zhu's debut appearance at a press conference Wednesday hosted by the State Council Information Office on China's medical system ended on a high note - with applause for the minister from the assembled reporters.
A 9-year-old math prodigy began university life yesterday - and promptly declared his first lesson "easy". "I learnt it two years ago," he said. Photos
Chinese researchers have republished Genghis Khan's code of laws, probably the world's first to ban homosexuality.
For most people, 60 is the age for retirement. But at 58, Doctor Li Huanying started on a new career path - to fight leprosy.
Little Zhang Huimin has a big - and long - dream: To win the marathon at the 2016 Olympics.
Among China's three most powerful directors, Feng Xiaogang is perhaps the only grassroots hero. People often refer to Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige as masters, but when talking about Feng, they smile as if he is a sweet neighbor who always invites you to share his dumplings.
If you thought sports stars Yao Ming and Liu Xiang or Internet entrepreneurs Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Lei would automatically be on the list of the "Men of Our Time", then you could be, well, behind the times.
The Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate has charged property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi with misappropriation of funds, bribery and forging VAT receipts.
CHENG Yanhua, 41, from Hubei Province drifted into town the hard way yesterday - he had just paddled a truck tire for two months down the Yangtze River from Chongqing City in south-west China.
A woman from the United States in her 90s is devoting her love and energy to the development of a small Chinese village where she used to live as a small child.
Two vault managers were sentenced to death on Thursday morning over China's largest ever bank theft involving 50.95 million yuan by a court in northern Hebei Province.