The central government's inspection team warned provincial-level leadership in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after finding neglect of the environment and severe damage from resource exploitation there.
A Peking University professor has been elected as a correspondent, or tenured foreign associate member, by France's Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, the first Chinese associate member of the Paris academy.
The biggest and brightest supermoon since 1948 appeared on Monday night, providing a spectacular opportunity for observers and photographers.
Hong Kong saw an outpouring of patriotism on Sunday in a mass demonstration calling for disqualifying the lawmakers-elect who have refused to pledge allegiance to the nation and the city's Basic Law.
Beijing has stepped up efforts to stop the sale of illegally obtained Chinese cultural relics by auction houses, collectors and museums.
For Chinese air force pilots, flying the nation's most advanced stealth fighter jet, the J-20, is a dream. This was the case with Captain Yu Xu, one of China's first female fighter jet pilots.
The silent graves and mausoleums of Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery are the final resting place of luminaries who created a buzz when they were alive, like composer Leonard Bernstein, newspaperman Horace Greeley and maverick artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
China is facing a problem of lonely singles - new statistics show that about 15 percent of adults is single, compared with just 6 percent in 1990.
Recently, I watched a video speech of a Chinese investor who talked about his ambition to revive the embattled golf game in the country. He was passionate and elucidating, but I hoped his strategy would be the exception rather than the rule.
Item from Nov 14, 1999, in China Daily: Chen Qiang from Holiland Realty Development Co, which owns one of China's largest bakery chains, makes a rose-shaped topping for a three-tiered wedding cake.
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