A man who built an egg-shaped house to live in because he couldn’t afford Beijing’s high rental prices is being forced to take it down, the Beijing Times reported Thursday.
Luxury car buyers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou might face delayed delivery of their dream cars or be forced to accept dealer surcharges as high as 100,000 yuan if they want to get them before the Spring Festival, the Internet news portal 163.com reported Thursday.
China may contribute $8 billion to establish the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Development Bank, the 21st Century Business Herald reported Thursday.
Police of Wuzhong city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, said they will release Wang Peng, a librarian working in Yinchuan, Ningxia's capital, on Thursday.
The reluctance of some countries for the second period of the Kyoto Protocol is the biggest stumbling block in the ongoing climate change negotiations, Brazilian Climate Change Ambassador Sergio B. Serra told China Daily on Wednesday.
Yang Tao, 41, a cervical cancer patient, gets her make-up done at Huaxi No.4 Hospital in Huaxi, Southwest China's Sichuan province on Nov 20, 2010, the Huaxi Urban News reported Wednesday.
Dai Haifei has lived in an egg-like house, which he built at the cost of 6,427 yuan ($964), since the end of National Day Holiday in October, the Beijing News reported Wednesday.
Dai Haifei, 24, a newly graduated architect, decided to make his own egg-style home after being unable to afford Beijing’s sky-high rental prices. The two-meter high house with two wheels underneath is made from sack bags on the outside wall, bamboo splints on the inside and wood chippings and grass seeds in between. “The seeds will grow in the natural environment and it’s cold-proof," Dai explained.
A video recording of a female reporter's rescue after she was pulled in by floods while on assignment in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province drew numerous hits on the Internet.
China's top economic planning agency urged people to have a clear understanding of temporary price intervention and said the use of such measures will not suggest a return to a planned economy.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced the entry criteria for the cement industry on Nov 30, China Securities Journal reported Wednesday.
Real estate developers in China may have a capital source of 7 trillion yuan ($1.05 trillion) this year, the China Securities Journal reported Wednesday, citing an analyst with Haitong Securities.