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Security concerns put pla on neighborhood watch

[2015-01-14 07:58]

For Fu Jun, deputy commander of a division of the People's Liberation Army air force, the growing number of high-rise buildings around his unit's air base has become a major concern.

Graft-buster rights wrongs at age 92

[2015-01-14 07:58]

Yang Weijun is 92, yet he is as tough as nails when it comes to fighting corruption.

Around China

[2015-01-14 07:58]

A 6-year-old girl saved a boy from drowning by holding onto his hand for 40 minutes after he fell into a pond. Wang Ziying was playing with her kindergarten classmate Wang Yaolong, also 6, in Ziyang when the boy slipped into the water.

FM defends mediation efforts in South Sudan

[2015-01-13 08:37]

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has defended China's mediation efforts in South Sudan, rejecting the notion that they were intended to safeguard its own oil interests.

Officials dine at high-end Bund restaurant

[2015-01-13 08:37]

Officials of Huangpu district government in Shanghai had dinner at a high-end restaurant before joining in a New Year's Eve laser display at a site near the deadly stampede in the district's Bund area, according to a report on Monday by Caixin New Century Weekly.

More military medics to help in Ebola fight

[2015-01-13 08:37]

China is stepping up its contribution to the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa by sending 232 more military medical workers.

Police break up criminal meat network, arrest 110

[2015-01-13 08:37]

Police have broken up a large criminal network selling sick and dead pigs across the country's 11 provinces and regions, a trade worth 100 million yuan ($16.3 million).

IN BRIEF (Page 4)

[2015-01-13 08:37]

The second group of Chinese pilots being trained to fly carrier-borne fighter jets has performed landing drills on the Liaoning, the nation's only aircraft carrier, Global Times reported on Monday.

Remembering maritime heroes from abroad

[2015-01-13 08:37]

Philo Norton McGiffin, a late 19th century naval officer from the United States, was buried wearing a uniform of imperial China's Beiyang fleet, after he died in 1897.

Life of Philo Norton McGiffin

[2015-01-13 08:37]

Born in 1860 in Pennsylvania, Philo Norton McGiffin entered the US Naval Academy at the age of 17. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and his father served in the Mexican War and the US Civil War.

Why China lost the war, even with a modern fleet

[2015-01-13 08:37]

A historian who has been studying the First Sino-Japanese War for 15 years.

Chongli aims for the peak in skiing

[2015-01-13 08:37]

A little-known neighbor of Beijing's is using the opportunities created by its joint bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics to kick-start its economy and reshape a green future.

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