Risk of corruption behind crackdown on those whose families have emigrated
Public tip-offs regarding environmental issues, especially relating to airborne pollution, are on the rise, a report shows, indicating public awareness of the problem has grown.
In anticipation of the upcoming APEC summit, Beijing's environmental watchdog has issued warnings against dozens of local officials in the past year for their incompetence in improving air quality.
Animal rights activists, lawyers, celebrities and food safety experts are lobbying to stop an upcoming festival that serves dog meat in Yulin, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
High school student Fang Hongrui walked somberly over a 6-meter-long bridge to a statue of Confucius, the Chinese philosopher and educator, to pray for luck before he sits the national college entrance exam on Saturday.
Although many parents in China believe good nutrition will help their children perform better in the national college entrance exam, which takes place over the weekend, some traditional online nutrition stores have had fewer sales than expected over the past weeks.
The self-confessed cult members arrested on suspicion of beating a woman to death on May 28 at a McDonald's restaurant in Zhaoyuan, Shandong province, have shown no regret for the incident.
China's industry and commerce authority announced on Friday it has halted an anti-monopoly probe into the official FIFA 2014 World Cup ticketing agency in China after the company admitted to abusing its market dominance.
Hong Kong authorities and two airlines said on Friday they had received a warning from Taiwan officials regarding a possible bomb aboard a Cathay Pacific or Dragonair flight arriving from the mainland over the next two days.
A man from Heilongjiang province allegedly cheated three people out of 1.65 million yuan ($263,900) after saying he could help them to get household registration and jobs in Beijing, Jinghua Times reported on Thursday. The man, surnamed Li, is accused of cheating the three from March to July 2012 before disappearing with the money. He was caught by police in October 2013 and will stand trial soon.
"We are deeply concerned by tensions in the East and South China Sea. We oppose any unilateral attempt by any party to assert its territorial or maritime claims through the use of intimidation, coercion or force."
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