Another official involved in Sichuan earthquake relief efforts has committed suicide ahead of the tragedy's one-year anniversary next month.
A publicity officer of a quake-leveled county in Sichuan Province hung himself at his home Monday, the local public security authority said, citing an initial investigation.
Zhu Min, daughter of the late Chinese marshal Zhu De, was cremated at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing on Sunday. She died of illness on Monday at the age of 83.
The man who killed eight people, including a two-year-old baby, in just 15 hours, was executed on Thursday, in Suizhou city in central China's Hubei province.
"Fat Brother" practises sumo at his home in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, April 16, 2009.
China's former 68th richest person had swindled nearly 390 million yuan ($57 million) from 11 people in one of the country's biggest financial frauds committed by a woman, a court in Zhejiang province was told on Thursday.
As the deputy director of a county tourism bureau in Guizhou province, A Xiang-yi found herself at the center of national attentionon.
The sudden fall of a Toronto fund manager prompted Canadian financial advisers to warn new Chinese immigrants not to be lured by the promise of super high returns in making an investment.
Wang Zhiyong was trying to tear up the two copies of a "marriage certificate" embossed with a photo of him and his gay "spouse".
A 27-year-old contender for the world's tallest man had surgery in a Tianjin hospital on Tuesday to relieve pain from a muscle tendon injury on his left foot sustained nearly a decade ago.
A contender for world's tallest man is receiving a foot surgery in a hospital in north China's metropolitan of Tianjin to relieve pains as a result of a muscle tendon injury on his left foot.
The country's brightest anglophiles gathered in Shanghai on Friday to contest the 14th "21st Century Lenovo Cup" sponsored by China Daily.