Illegal cooking oil produced on huge scale
2011-06-30 07:43:54
Some supposedly edible cooking oil on store shelves in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province is being produced from so-called gutter oil and swill-cooked oil, Chinese media have reported.
'Monitor food safety at the source'
2011-06-30 07:40:53
Pollution at the point where food is produced is a major cause of food safety problems in China, according to a report released on Wednesday after a nationwide food safety check by China's top legislature.
Expressway set to see more vehicles as tolls are lowered
2011-06-30 07:36:12
Drivers are likely to soon find the toll expressway linking the metropolis to Beijing Capital International Airport a lot cheaper.
Fire risk rising as cities grow taller
2011-06-30 07:34:27
The nation's fast-growing inventory of high-rise buildings coupled with its lack of firefighters have combined to challenge China's ability to manage its fire risk, the minister of public security said on Wednesday.
Beijing issues pay rise guidelines for this year
2011-06-30 07:30:10
Enterprises in Beijing are advised to give their employees a wage rise of about 10 percent and no less than 5 percent this year, according to a living cost adjustment guide issued on Wednesday.
Heavy rain forces 16,000 to evacuate in S China
2011-06-30 06:10:48
More than 16,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes Wednesday as torrential rains pelted parts of south Guangdong province, local flood control authorities said.
E-retalier gets 4.3m tax bill in C China
2011-06-29 22:26:14
An online retailer in Central China's Wuhan was ordered Tuesday to pay 4.3 million yuan ($665,830) in taxes, the first such case disclosed in China.
Overseas, Mainland firms thrive in HK in H1
2011-06-29 22:06:07
Invest Hong Kong has assisted 198 overseas and Mainland companies to set up or expand their business operations in the city in the first half of 2011, the department announced Wednesday.
46 websites with unlicensed mapping service warned
2011-06-29 20:07:38
China's National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation has published a list of 19 domestic websites that have offered online mapping services without obtaining permission, warning them to apply for approval before Friday.
China to create 45m jobs for urban residents
2011-06-29 15:08:02
China intends to create 45 million new jobs for urban residents and 40 million jobs for rural laborers over the next five years, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said Wednesday.
Rich in papers, China still less innovative
2011-06-29 15:01:48
Science Watch ranked China the fourth in producing 719,971 research papers on Science Citation Index journals from 2000 to 2010. But in terms of average citations per paper, China was nowhere among the world's top 20.
4 detained over building collapse in NW China
2011-06-29 12:39:47
Four people have been detained over a building collapse that killed seven workers in Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Saturday, the local government said Wednesday.