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China will revise a draft amendment to copyright law that has stirred controversy since being circulated to seek public opinion, it was announced on Friday.
Is Shakespeare outdated for English majors? The question came up when more than 100 foreign language deans gathered in Beijing.
Test takers will have to stick with standard Chinese to answer the coming college entrance examination.
A teacher who risked her life to save two students from an oncoming bus has regained consciousness but must wait for the most opportune time for surgery.
China's voluntary blood donors can reimburse their payments for blood usage outside the places where they donate blood.
Migrant workers queue at a school enrollment site in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, May 17.
A policeman takes part in a tactical training exercise in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, May 17, 2012.
China's first deep-water pipe-laying crane vessel will set sail on its maiden voyage Saturday from the eastern port of Qingdao to the South China Sea.
A gambling addict received the death penalty Thursday for murdering two kids in Beijing last year.
A retired mother reclaimed an area of wasteland to plant vegetables in order to provide safe greens for her pregnant daughter in East China’s Shandong province, Qilu Evening News reported Friday.
Scientists in Sichuan province successfully managed to send an early earthquake warning in Wenchuan county, site of a disastrous earthquake four years ago.
A teacher who was run over by a school bus as she pushed two students out of the way has regained consciousness and no longer needs a respirator to breathe, doctors said on Thursday.