'Desperate' man drives truck into student crowd, killing 5
2008-11-07 07:54:06
The man who drove his truck into a crowded schoolyard on Wednesday in Guangdong province, killing five people and injuring 20 others, did so "because he was tired of life", police said on Thursday.
Shanghai district signs co-op letters
2008-11-07 07:49:18
The Yangpu district government has signed cooperation letters of intent with 11 cities and districts in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, following the visit last week of UN Habitat officials and an African delegation for the 4th World Urban Forum.
Chongqing cabbies meet city's party chief, air grievances
2008-11-07 07:24:56
A top official in Chongqing on Thursday visited representatives of taxi drivers who had staged a strike earlier in the week.
Official to talk with cabbies after work stoppage
2008-11-06 10:16:56
Bo Xilai, secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Chongqing Municipal Committee, will talk with representatives of cab drivers and citizens at 10 a.m. Thursday, in the wake of a work stoppage.
Beijing attacker held in Shenzhen
2008-11-06 09:37:09
A man who stabbed two foreign tourists in Beijing last week while trying to rob them was arrested on Tuesday in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, police said on Wednesday.
Conjoined twins born in Central China
2008-11-06 12:37:23
Four-day-old conjoined twin boys were hospitalized at the Children’s Hospital in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China’s Henan Province, November 5, 2008.
Factory boss held over contaminated poultry feed
2008-11-06 07:40:25
The owner of a poultry feed company in Shenyang, Liaoning province, has been arrested after admitting he used melamine in the production process, which led to the contamination of eggs sold by the Hanovo Group, police said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Four dead in work shed collapse at central China construction site
2008-11-06 10:03:42
Four construction workers were killed and two others were injured when a temporary shed collapsed here on Wednesday.
Students in landslide-hit region resume most classes
2008-11-05 23:59:12
Most schools in the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province have resumed classes, after landslides and mud-rock flows hit the area, local education authorities said on Wednesday.
Landslides, worst floods in a century kill 51 in China
2008-11-06 08:25:57
Parts of southwestern China have been hit by their worst floods in more than a century as well as landslides that have cost 51 lives and left 43 missing.
Award-winning Nanjing to spend $4b on new housing
2008-11-05 07:54:36
Nanjing will spend another 30 billion yuan ($4.4 billion) to renovate 3 million sq m of dilapidated residential areas before the end of 2010, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Heavy rains, snow kill 40 in Yunnan
2008-11-05 07:54:01
Severe flooding and snowstorms have claimed 40 lives in the western regions of China, as weather authorities warned residents to brace for more rainfall and snow.