Performance artist sucks up particles into a brick

A performance artist has just finished a 100-day project to collect smog in Beijing with a special vacuum cleaner.

Manufacturing PMI weakens to lowest in three years

China's manufacturing conditions slipped to the weakest level in more than three years as sluggishness in the nation's old growth drivers added to risks facing the government's growth target.

What they say

What really matters is whether central banks and sovereign wealth funds start to see the RMB as a viable store of liquidity and value to rival the US dollar. Such a shift seems unlikely while doubts persist over China's prospects for a smooth and orderly rebalancing, and while China retains widespread capital controls.

999 center defends its procedures

A major emergency rescue center in Beijing rejected accusations on Monday from a journalist who said deliberate malpractice at the center nearly cost him his life.

NGO cares for foreign carriers of HIV/AIDS

Twenty-one foreign HIV/AIDS carriers, two women and 19 men, are in regular contact with the China Rainbow support group based in Beijing, the head of the nongovernmental organization said.

Media from BRICS countries build unity

BRICS nations are an important force in international relations and active builders of economic growth, unity, cooperation and joint development, said Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Tuesday.

Ex-prosecutor expelled from Party for taking drugs

A former top prosecutor in Linxiang, Hunan province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China for taking illegal drugs and other violations of Party rules, the city's anti-graft body said on Tuesday.

Latest university corruption scandals

1. Wang Cizhao, president of the Central Conservatory of Music, has been given "a stern warning", a disciplinary measure under the rules of the Communist Party of China, for misusing his position to benefit his child, and was removed from all positions in the school.

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Banks improve services for farmers and nomads

Banks in Sichuan province participating in a wide-scale poverty alleviation endeavor want to upend entrenched notions about lending to the poor.

Sichuan to end poverty in Tibetan prefecture

Sichuan province is pledging to lift 5 million residents living on less than $1.25 a day out of poverty by 2020 by replacing direct assistance with a loan program to help villagers in the remote mountains and nomads on the grasslands start their own businesses.

Pen name sparks firestorm: poetic injustice?

No ink is bad ink, the saying goes. When it comes to publishing, scandals only help sales, even in the rarified world of modern poetry.