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Peking University has responded to a furor over its attempts to compile a list of students addicted to the Internet.
An earthquake pre-warning was broadcast on TV for the first time in China.
Officials in Guangdong, China's most populous province, are being encouraged by population experts to ask the central government for exemptions from the family planning policy.
A newborn girl must have been a pleasant surprise for a 75-year-old father.
China's drug safety watchdog has urged local authorities to give harsh and quick punishments to producers of unsafe gel capsules.
A documentary on Lu Xun College of Arts, a prestigious art school that had far-reaching effects on China's contemporary culture, will be aired on CCTV-10.
The 2012 Beijing International Book Carnival will take place in Ditan Park from May 18 to 27.
Beijing will introduce new fuel standards that municipal officials say are nearly on par with the European Union's Euro V on May 31.
Three cities in Guangdong province have agreed to connect their subway lines, a step forward for the province to promote internal economic integration.
The major offender of an attempted bank robbery that saw explosives killing two people and injuring 15 others in Central China's Hubei province late last year said Thursday that he would appeal against his death sentence.
Three people were killed and one injured after an explosion ripped through a factory in North China's Shanxi province Thursday, local authorities said.
A total of 146 sanitationmen bustle around the 2100-meter-tall Huashan Mountain, which is famous for its sheer cliffs and plunging ravines, every day at 6:00 am before visitors arrive.