Fire put out on building roof in Hunan
2008-12-22 11:39:07
Firefighters try to put out the blaze on a building in Changsha, central China's Hunan province December 21, 2008.
Dreams soar at Shaanxi flying club
2008-12-19 07:48:04
The country's first private flying club here has received more than 100 applications from aspiring professional pilots as well as the affluent, hoping to buy their own planes, the club's officials said on Thursday.
Gas blast traps 18 miners in central China
2008-12-18 10:56:54
Eighteen miners were trapped after a coal mine blast on Wednesday afternoon in Lianyuan city of central China's Hunan Province, local officials said Thursday.
Water supply resumes for NW China city after pipes repaired
2008-12-18 10:25:14
The water supply to a northwest China city resumed on Wednesday afternoon after more than 100 workers repaired water pipes which burst on Tuesday. The burst of the pipes to Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, was the third one in two weeks, affecting about 70 percent of the city's 600,000 urban residents. Corruption has been blamed for the total of 11 bursts so far since the project of water channeling from a local reservoir was completed a decade ago. Pang Jiayu, who was acting as mayor and Party chief of Baoji from 1997 to 1999, was widely blamed for dereliction of duty as he was in charge of the water channeling project. The Shaanxi provincial committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has criticized Pang for dereliction of duty that led substandard pipes to be used. Pang was jailed for 12 years for corruption by a court in June. The project experienced three pipe bursts in 1998, the year when the project was constructed. It saw two recent pipe bursts on Dec. 4 and Dec. 10 this year. During a burst in 2005, water gushed to seven meters high.
Two Xinjiang terrorists who killed 17 police get death
2008-12-18 07:44:10
Two terrorists who attacked police on Aug 4 in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have been sentenced to death by a local court, the Supreme People's Court said yesterday.
Beijing lines up 57 community projects
2008-12-18 07:44:49
Children in Beijing aged 6 and under could be entitled to free annual health checks from next year, the municipal government said on Wednesday.
Shanghai trains to get surveillance cameras
2008-12-18 07:44:49
In a bid to curb pick pocketing in subways, all local trains here will be fitted with surveillance cameras by the end of 2009, the police said on Wednesday.
Corruption blamed for burst water pipes in NW China city
2008-12-16 23:30:14
Corruption has been blamed for the third burst in the water supply pipes in two weeks in the northwestern city of Baoji, Shaanxi Province, in which tens of thousands of residents have been cut off.
29 villas built near grotto to be demolished
2008-12-16 07:57:14
The 29-illegal villas being built near a UNESCO world heritage site in Henan province are expected to be demolished within a few days, sources said yesterday.
Netizens angry about cats on menu
2008-12-16 07:57:14
A media report that thousands of cats are transported daily from Jiangsu province to restaurants in Guangdong has aroused great attention among the public.
Ice house dealers on strike in Hubei
2008-12-16 10:44:35
About 200 dealers in a large refrigerated warehouse in central China's Hubei Province continued strike on Monday to protest high rental fees charged by the owner.
North China to brace for cold fronts
2008-12-16 10:19:14
Two cold fronts will sweep the northern part of China from Tuesday, bringing strong winds and a temperature drop of 6 to 8 degrees Celsius or more, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said on Tuesday.