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More than 30 films, both Chinese and foreign, will be played for children in cinemas, schools and communities to celebrate Children's Day on June 1.
A mother of three in South China committed suicide because she feared her husband's employer would not pay compensation for an injury he suffered at work, her son said.
A Bank of China branch president in Northeast China's Liaoning province has been detained on criminal charges relating to the misappropriation of 10 million yuan ($1.58 million) in depositors' funds.
Dave Heineman, governor of Nebraska in the United States, opened his communication channel with 300 million Chinese users.
A drug addict in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for injecting HIV-infected blood into a girl.
China's central government is to launch a special fund to support weather modification operations.
A total of 19 children died of hand-foot-and-mouth disease in April in Central China's Hunan Province.
The local courthouse established a mobile court, offering door-to-door legal services to local shepherds.
A number of luxury cars were used by governmental officials in Yulin that broke the regulations concerning official vehicles.
Air quality assessments by the Shanghai authority and the United States Consulate General in Shanghai are different is because the evaluation criteria they use are not the same.
At least nine people were killed and another six injured in an explosion in a steelworks in the city of Shaoguan in the northern part of Guangdong province on Monday.
Heavy fog lingering for a week in East China's seaport of Qingdao, Shandong province, has disrupted passage on the waterway, stranding more than 200 vessels daily at the port.