China's top court approved the death sentence of a former medical student who poisoned his roommate, a lawyer for the family said on Wednesday.
Four former officials from Shanxi province are being investigated on suspicion of accepting bribes, according to a statement released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Wednesday.
Mental health experts want more research done on how periods of serious pollution can cause "the smog blues."
China's largest mobile-based car-hailing company, Didi Kuaidi, said that since traffic controls were launched on Monday night in Beijing, the number of appointments for private cars has nearly doubled.
A total of 371 high-polluting chemical and construction enterprises in Beijing have slowed or suspended production amid the most serious smog in recent years.
Some Beijing residents use smokestacks to predict smog: Smoke drifting gently upward means stagnant air where smog will accumulate, while smoke blowing away from the mountains indicates fresher winds and clear air ahead.
After a red alert was issued for the first time, many of Beijing's 22.5 million residents turned to humor to cope with the heavy smog.
Every day since early March, Ma Xiaoxian, head of the Environmental Protection Enforcement Bureau in Shaanxi province, has been following trucks carrying sewage sludge in an attempt to find out where the waste is taken after processing. What he discovered left him deeply troubled.
Piles of randomly dumped, malodorous sewage sludge have been discovered in a number of large cities, posing a pollution threat.
Scientists searching for endangered wild Chinese sturgeon recently stood on the banks of the Yangtze River, waiting for fishermen to pull a large net from the water.
A 12-year-old boy whose parents locked him in the house on Oct 22 broke out and has been missing ever since, according to a news report.
Three days without school in Beijing have created a headache for some parents who have difficulty finding a person or institution for child care when they go to work.
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