Five pupils attempted to commit suicide by drinking herbicide in an old temple of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, hsw.cn reported.
About 65 percent of employers in China forecast increased hiring in the third quarter of 2010, according to a Hudson survey of 570 executives across key business sectors in China, the China Youth Daily reported.
An online gambling syndicate was busted in June by police Guangxi autonomous region after a 32-month investigation and search, gxnews.com.cn reported Thursday.
Beijing plans to revise the Regulation on Banning Smoking in all Public Spaces issued in 1995, in a move to include all indoor public spaces in the smoking ban, Beijing Evening News reported Wednesday.
As beer-toasting fans revel in the World Cup binge, Chinese traffic police are busy keeping alcohol-roused game watchers from getting behind the wheel.
Over 70 percent of Beijing’s urban families own their homes, according to a sampling survey cited in the Beijing News Wednesday.
Civil servants in Jiangmen of South China's Guangdong province will be granted bonuses for performing honest duties in an incentive program to be launched by the local government on July 1, the Nanfang Daily reported Monday.
Beijing has started a five-year environmental protection program, with an investment of 17 billion ($2.5 billion) yuan, in a bid to rejuvenate the hydrosphere ecosystem of Yongding River, Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported Tuesday.
Floor space transactions in the 35 cities monitored by China Index Academy went up last week (June 21 -27), the Shanghai Securities News reported Tuesday, citing a weekly report from the academy.
Over 100,000 people have been relocated since the 1990s due to collapsed land caused by coal mining in East China’s Jining city, one of 13 coal production bases in China, the People's Daily reported on Monday.
In a bid to relieve Beijing's water shortage, 200 million cubic meters of water will be transferred from three reservoirs in Hebei to the metropolis, rednet.cn reported.
Sudden gusts of 14-gale force winds lashed parts of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region from last Friday to Saturday, overturning vehicles and causing trouble for traffic, Tianshanet.com.cn reported Monday.