The central government has banned schools and kindergartens from charging fees for hiring guards and installing security systems to protect students from violence after several deadly assaults at schools across the country.
College graduates are expecting their monthly income to increase by at least 500 yuan ($74) this year, amid growing calls for wage increases among industrial workers countrywide, an employment survey has suggested.
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group Wednesday announced a 30-percent pay increase for workers at all its China's mainland plants starting June.
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A letter left by a man who shot three judges dead and injured three others before committing suicide in a local court office suggested his motive was revenge on the court. Beijing courts ramp up security
The BP oil slick drifted perilously close to the Florida Panhandle's famous sugar-white beaches Wednesday as a risky gambit to contain the leak by shearing off the well pipe ran into trouble a mile under the sea when the diamond-tipped saw became stuck.
A taxi driver drove his vehicle on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England Wednesday, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself.
British Prime Minister David Cameron says at least five people have been killed in a shooting spree in rural England.
Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj vowed to boost ties between the two countries during a meeting here Wednesday.
Senior Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang on Wednesday called for efforts to ensure "leapfrog development and lasting stability" in western China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
China's vegetable prices will fall further with increasing supplies as temperatures continue to climb, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, said Wednesday.
Israel said it would complete on Wednesday the deportation of all the pro-Palestinian activists seized in its raid on a Gaza aid flotilla and vowed to stop other ships from reaching the Hamas-run enclave.
Beijing's Palace Museum and Taiwan's National Palace Museum will hold a series of events this month to commemorate the saving of millions of cultural relics from the invading Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s.
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