Even though Chinese film-makers have yet to present an air action movie as dazzling as the legendary Top Gun, which featured Hollywood star Tom Cruise and the F-14 fighter, they will be pleased to know that the Chinese air force is preparing what could be source material for their own such film.
A fire that engulfed a petrochemical plant in Shandong province on Thursday morning was later brought under control, with no casualties reported, firefighters said.
Less than 20 percent of nursing homes in China's major cities are profitable, and homes for middle-income seniors fall far short of what is needed, according to a report released on Thursday by the China Research Center on Aging.
Health authorities are cracking down on surrogate-birth services by stepping up efforts to hunt down and stop anyone advertising such services online.
Self-proclaimed qigong master Wang Lin was reportedly brought in by Jiangxi provincial police in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Wednesday as part of an investigation.
The government announced on Wednesday that GDP grew by 7 percent in the second quarter, and the figure prompted experts to predict an improvement in the economy over the coming months.
A committee of Japan's lower house passed controversial security bills aimed at beefing up the role of Japan's military on Wednesday, despite domestic opposition and concern among neighboring countries.
Wan Li, a former top legislator, champion of China's agricultural reforms and driving force behind improvements to the country's legal system, died on Wednesday at age 99.
The highly anticipated Shanghai Disneyland, scheduled to open next spring, will put further pressure on Hong Kong's already struggling tourism industry while pushing up Shanghai's revenues, according to experts.
After chatting with her neighbors under a huge banyan tree in the village square, Wang Jinlai, 75, has two homes to return to.
Item from July 16, 1997, in China Daily: Beijing students from the Middle School Attached to Tsinghua University talk to astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Columbia via shortwave radio on Monday. It was the first time Chinese students spoke to astronauts in space.
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