Airlines help passengers get home from Hainan

To ease traffic pressure from holiday spenders in Hainan province, airline companies have started to operate more widebody aircraft from the island to help stranded tourists return home sooner, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

Police arrest suspect in ax murder case

Local police arrested a murder suspect who allegedly killed a father of two daughters in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, police said on Thursday.

Two held for posing in Japanese uniforms

Two men who posed for pictures dressed in imperial Japanese military uniforms in front of a Nanjing memorial site were detained for 15 days, local police said.

Woman in SWAT suit pleased to save lives

"Like the bamboo tree, bend but do not break."

Program pushes rotation of crops

About 130,000 hectares of farmland in China was left fallow last year in a pilot program designed to reverse ecological degradation in some rural areas and promote sustainable development of agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Friday.

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Old grudge possible motive in triple murder

A court in Shaanxi province said on Thursday that it will review a ruling made in the 1990s that might have been at the root of a triple homicide during this year's Spring Festival.

Express industry is speeding up green reforms

Packages for express delivery goods in China are expected to be thinner and more recyclable to reduce environmental stress, according to a new national standard.

Mountain rail still chugging along quarter century on, ticket price nearly unchanged

With the world's largest and fastest-expanding high-speed railway network, China has updated its railway timetable frequently over the past few years. But the timetable to a passenger train service connecting Yuci and Xiangyuan, two county-level regions 195 kilometers apart in the Tai-hang Mountains in North China's Shanxi province, has remained unchanged since its maiden run a quarter century ago.

Arson ruled out as cause of temple fire

LHASA - A preliminary investigation has ruled out foul play in the fire that broke out in Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.

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Team in talks over statue vandalism

A Chinese team has been set up to negotiate with a Pennsylvania museum where the thumb of an ancient Terracotta Warrior statue was broken off and stolen while on exhibit in the US, said an official with the cultural relics authority in Shaanxi province.