Prison visits part of anti-corruption campaign
2011-06-09 10:45:14
More than 120 officials from Hannan district in Wuhan, Hubei province, visited a prison as part of a campaign to prevent corruption, the local Changjiang Daily reported Thursday.
Drug maker invests more in ads, less in cleaning
2011-06-08 17:10:02
Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd.(HPGC) has denied it polluted the environment with hydrogen sulfide claiming the emissions met safety standards.
Going home
2011-06-08 09:15:30
Nervousness and fear filled my first few days in China. I arrived at the Pudong airport, in Shanghai, in the middle of the night, after an almost twenty hour sleepless flight.
China's skyscraper league by cities
2011-06-07 17:22:23
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen are the China’s three most competitive cities if taking the number of skyscrapers a city boasts as measurement, the Shanghai based Dongfang Daily reported today.
Students lash out at dummies to vent emotions
2011-06-07 16:56:04
In order to help its students improve their mental capacity to deal with stress, Hongtang High School in Ningbo city, in East China’s Zhejiang province, has introduced a psychological venting room.
Small manufacturers shudder at rising costs
2011-06-03 10:20:07
In this wealthy eastern Chinese city known for its shrewd merchants, the owner of a factory that makes spectacles faces a difficult task: closing his money-losing business and dismissing his workers.
9.33 million students sit the Gaokao
2011-06-07 16:07:37
For 9.33 million high school students, June 7 is a big day - the start of China’s annual College Entrance Examination (CEE), known as Gaokao in Chinese. However, the number CEE examinees, as released by China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday, shows a third-year drop since 2008, chinanews.com reported today.
Speed skating team gets a real beating
2011-06-07 15:08:07
China's top short track speed skaters were beaten and kicked in an attack following a training session in Yunnan of Southwest China.
Micro blog rescues desperate melon farmer
2011-06-07 11:39:18
In what appears to be totally out of desperation from sluggish sales, Chinese watermelon farmer Fu Youlian posted his first ever micro blog from China's twitter-like micro blogging service site weibo.com.
Indoor smoking ban ignored
2011-06-07 11:31:29
New rules banning indoor smoking are being ignored by smokers and some businesses, according to a report by Beijing Morning Post.
What teaches you most about China
2011-06-06 12:22:17
What teaches you more about China: learning the language or making friends with Chinese people?
HK chief Donald Tsang breaks window silence
2011-06-03 15:18:21
Hong Kong’s chief executive has agreed to dismantle a controversial set of glass panels from his balcony following claims he violated building regulations, nddaily.com reported.