Former NBA star Yao Ming is being sued by Beijing resident Feng Changshun for endorsing a health food product that Feng said misleads consumers, in one of the first consumer rights cases involving a celebrity since a new protection law was enacted in March.
A stockbroker has been docked two months' salary - nearly 1 million yuan ($161,000) - for comments he made about a bank's high profits.
College graduates may be lured by get-rich-quick pyramid schemes as scammers take advantage of a record number of job-seekers entering a tight labor market this summer.
Yang, a medical clerk in Wuhan, Hubei province, was surprised to receive a call last November telling him that his wife, who had died in a car accident two months before, had left a "digital will".
Eleven people were sentenced to prison for selling the meat of nearly 1,000 dogs killed by poisoning, a court in Changde, Hunan province, said.
Experts said on Wednesday that residents' anxieties about terrorism can be reduced by strengthening security in crowded places, but the key is persistence.
The last person injured in the stabbings at the square of Guangzhou Railway Station on Tuesday was a man, surnamed Shan, who used a wooden rod to fight off his knife-wielding attacker.
A 12-year-old boy successfully underwent a heart transplant surgery at Anzhen Hospital in Beijing after receiving the organ hours before the surgery.
Cong Bin, a forensic medicine expert in Hebei province, said brain death cannot be identified as real death under current Chinese laws, referring to the case in which the family of a young man who was pronounced brain-dead donated his heart to a boy with heart failure.
China's online shopping sector was the largest target of consumer complaints in the service industry in 2013, according to two consumer rights groups.
When retiree Ren Chunqing's daughter went to Japan to study two years ago, they communicated via video and telephone almost every day.
China National Heavy-Duty Truck Group Co signed a $100-million deal for a new assembly plant to produce trucks in Lagos, Nigeria.
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