Shen Peiping, 53, former vice-governor of Yunnan province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes worth around 16 million yuan ($2.5 million), a Beijing court announced on Thursday.
Most city residents with mobile phones and Internet access need not bother leaving the house to take a delivery - food, clothing or even fresh vegetables or meat they booked online for dinner. Deliveries can come right to their door.
Three years ago, five "left-behind" children died after they crawled into a refuse container on a freezing winter day and lit a fire to keep warm, but were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes.
My neighborhood hair salon just shut down. The one I've been going to ever since I arrived in Hong Kong. Just like that.
Item from Dec 3, 1998, in China Daily: Forestry officials rescue ring-necked pheasants from cramped cages outside a restaurant in Beijing yesterday. The birds are under municipal protection. ... The restaurant, called Guifuyuan, is located west of the Kunlun Hotel in Chaoyang district.
Smartphone "mobile wallet" apps for online financial transactions are becoming more popular.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused a French journalist on Wednesday of political bias for her reporting on Beijing's efforts to fight terrorism in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Customs officers in Yunnan province confiscated more than 56 kilograms of illegal drugs as they thwarted three attempts to smuggle drugs across the border in the last four months, authorities said on Wednesday.
Weight loss, diabetes, cancer, nutrition and traditional Chinese medicine are among the most popular topics with Chinese people who habitually follow health news and information online, according to data analysis by Toutiao.com.
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