Police have opened a new front in the war on drugs by targeting traffickers who recruit the disabled and other vulnerable people as couriers, or "mules".
A man in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 20,000 yuan ($2,900) for using his pregnant wife to deliver drugs. The couple was arrested in May last year after police found more than 300 grams of ketamine - street names, special K or super acid - in their home. A local court sentenced the woman to two years in prison with a three-year reprieve because she needed to breast-feed her baby.
Community correction must be employed when convicted people are allowed to serve sentences outside prison. The process should be overseen by members of the community in which the convicted person resides.
Some consider Huang Qiaoyan to be the Chinese equivalent of the German Brothers Grimm.
About half of the 400 Anhui University freshmen questioned about their teachers' names on their midterm exams were unable to answer.
Heilongjiang Yunda Express awarded 5,000 yuan ($730) to Liu Zhigang on April 17 for his heroism.
On May 7, France will elect a new president, and as has been the case in previous electoral campaigns, presidential candidates have been focusing on domestic issues.
Some recent media reports said a Chinese youth, whose family spent about 4 million yuan ($581,000) on his education in the United States over eight years, returned home only to realize he might not be able to earn that amount back because it was not easy for him to find a well-paying job.
Why are we humans so bad at thinking about facts, facts such as those on climate change, even when more and more research proves them?
The Communist Party of China Central Committee has highlighted the role of a "key few" officials in advancing the education campaign on strict Party governance. The education campaign requires Party members to study the Party constitution, its code of conduct, as well as the speeches of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and become devoted Party members.
Wu Weihong hasn't been affected by the medical reforms implemented in Beijing this month, but the new measures have had a big impact on his 61-year-old mother, who has regular treatment for chronic kidney disease.
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