HIV-positive men and women in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region may soon be required by law to tell partners their status.
A new regulation will deny welfare subsidies to residents who own assets that require a certain level of income to buy, such as vehicles or real estate.
The city's metro saw its second suicide in the past 10 days, stirring public criticism over the metro's perceived inability to prevent such deaths.
China is experiencing a colder winter than usual and temperatures will continue to fall until mid-February.
China is suffering from an increasing number of environmental accidents, mainly triggered by the rapid growth of the chemical industry.
China will publish urban-rural income data in 2013 to pave the way for the publication of a national Gini coefficient that can measure income inequality.
Domestic airlines have been banned from complying with the European Union's scheme to impose charges on carbon emissions from flights to and from Europe.
A southern Chinese city on Monday announced a plan to build an alternative drinking water source after a spill of toxic cadmium in a river threatened drinking water supplies for millions. More environmental accidents hit China
Over 200 villagers in the eastern port city of Wenzhou rallied Monday morning to protest compensation issues over the local government's acquisition of their aquaculture mud flats.
China will further efforts to stem excessive use or abuse of government-funded ceremonies and seminars as part of its deepened war on corruption, according to the 2012 work agenda of the Ministry of Supervision.
Chai Haibo, Deputy Secretary of the China Air Transport Association, said on Monday that the directive issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on Monday is a clear government expression of its opposition against the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS).
A total of 343 suspects were detained for allegedly stealing railway property and cargo over the past two months, said China's railway police here Monday.