China's skyscraper league by cities

2011-06-07 17:22:23

Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen are the China’s three most competitive cities if taking the number of skyscrapers a city boasts as measurement, the Shanghai based Dongfang Daily reported today.

Students lash out at dummies to vent emotions

2011-06-07 16:56:04

In order to help its students improve their mental capacity to deal with stress, Hongtang High School in Ningbo city, in East China’s Zhejiang province, has introduced a psychological venting room.

Chinese student feared drowned in ocean

2011-06-07 16:35:13

New Zealand Police fear a Chinese student missing near Auckland since Sunday is almost certainly dead as her family prepares to come out from China.

HK health chief warns of imported E coli cases

2011-06-07 16:12:31

Hong Kong may eventually face an imported case of the deadly E coli infection that has afflicted Germany and other European countries, the city's health chief York Chow said Tuesday.

9.33 million students sit the Gaokao

2011-06-07 16:07:37

For 9.33 million high school students, June 7 is a big day - the start of China’s annual College Entrance Examination (CEE), known as Gaokao in Chinese. However, the number CEE examinees, as released by China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday, shows a third-year drop since 2008, chinanews.com reported today.

China issues heat alert in various regions

2011-06-07 16:00:08

China's meteorological authorities on Tuesday issued a heat alert for regions in northern, central and eastern China, saying temperatures in the regions may climb as high as 39 degrees Celsius over the next few days.

Growth in Chinese 'birth tourism' to US

2011-06-07 15:13:29

An increasing number of Chinese women are choosing to give birth in the United States amid a growing business in Nanjing city, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, the local Yangzi Evening News reported Tuesday.

Industrial waste contaminates tap water in E China

2011-06-07 13:33:42

Industrial waste was blamed to have contaminated tap water in an East China city, cutting supplies to two towns since Sunday, the local environment watchdog said.

Murderous driver Yao Jiaxin executed

2011-06-07 13:10:12

Yao Jiaxin, a university student who stabbed a young mother to death to cover up a hit-and-run accident, was executed on Tuesday in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Micro blog rescues desperate melon farmer

2011-06-07 11:39:18

In what appears to be totally out of desperation from sluggish sales, Chinese watermelon farmer Fu Youlian posted his first ever micro blog from China's twitter-like micro blogging service site weibo.com.

Indoor smoking ban ignored

2011-06-07 11:31:29

New rules banning indoor smoking are being ignored by smokers and some businesses, according to a report by Beijing Morning Post.

Death toll in south China blast climbs to 4

2011-06-07 11:31:03

Four people were confirmed dead after an explosion went off at a fireworks store in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Tuesday morning, the local government said.