Industrial profits up

China's industrial profit growth came in at 9.8 percent year-on-year in October, up from 7.7 percent the previous month, a positive sign for the country's economic restructuring and macroeconomic stabilization.

Construction company to pay compensation

Compensation of 1.2 million yuan ($173,500) will be paid to the families of each of the workers killed when a platform collapsed at a power plant construction site in Yichun, Jiangxi province, the construction company said on Sunday.

Teacher turns panda droppings into paper

A retired teacher in northwestern China has found a novel raw material for making paper - poop from the giant panda.

National civil service exam poses up-to-date questions

The annual civil service exam kicked off on Sunday, and some recent topics - such as college graduates starting their own businesses and the Yutu lunar rover - appeared in the exam questions.

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No child care means no second child for many

Nearly a year after China stepped into the new second-child policy era, child care has become a prominent issue in family planning, with more than 60 percent of the mothers who don't want a second child saying it's just too hard to find help.

Senior official calls for steady development of Chinese Islam

Highlights of a speech by Wang Zuo'an, chief of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, at the 10th National Congress of the China Islamic Assocation:

Rescue center helps wounded birds fly again

Every autumn, tens of millions of migrating birds fly south for the winter via Laotieshan Mountain on the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoning province, where they stop for a rest before flying across the Bohai Sea.

Satellites map epic migration of Beijing cuckoo

Chinese poets have often used the cuckoo's arrival as a symbol of homecoming, but few knew where the bird came from.

Goodbye TPP, hello inclusive trade

President Xi Jinping has just wrapped up his third visit to Latin America since 2013, which took him to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. During his visit, he also attended the 2016 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima.

You can't kindle change in a dinosaur

I'm surrounded by a whole array of the latest high-tech gadgetry - an iPhone, an iPad, a Kindle - and I work on a state-of-the-art computer to bring you this column.

Should Britain's charity begin at home?

Domestic critics of Britain's generous overseas development program have seized on an official watchdog report revealing that the government continues to provide China and other new global powers with millions of pounds in aid.