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Local courts in Shanxi and Hebei provinces in North China convicted and sentenced 14 people on Friday for producing or selling tainted milk powder.
Four officials in Shanghai have been punished for dereliction of duty in relation to a recent food safety scandal involving steamed buns, local authorities said Friday.
A fuel tank truck burst into flames on an expressway linking Chengdu with Chongqing in southwest China on Friday afternoon, leaving seven people dead and four injured, a road safety watchdog told Xinhua.
Chinese police count stacks of fake 100-yuan banknotes in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, April 28, 2011. Police seized the faux currency worth 490,000 yuan ($75,457) and arrested three suspects.
Smoke billows out of the former Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Museum building in Shenyang, the provincial capital. The museum was demolished on Thursday with a controlled explosion to make way for a cultural square. It will be rebuilt elsewhere.
Sixteen people have been detained on the suspicion that they had sold a banned additive used to produce greater amounts of lean meat in livestock, police said in Central China's Hunan.
Restaurants asked to publicize food additives
More than 12 million tourists are expected to go this year to the International Horticultural Exposition, which began in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Thursday.
Tim Hunt, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, gave an inspiring lecture to students at Dalian No.8 High School on Wednesday in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province.
In a whirlwind of raucous rock, the capital celebrates the arrival of the warm weather with three of Beijing's biggest music festivals, drawing international and local talent.
Power shortages across the country in recent weeks have forced some provinces to ration electricity for industrial use, causing severe financial losses to private enterprises.
Factory-rich provinces thirst for electricity
A blaze at a large shopping mall on Wednesday in downtown Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province, caused no casualties but sounded an alarm on prevention and control of big fires in Chinese cities.
A Chinese couple have tied the knot with a procession inspired by the British royal wedding, donning ceremonial garb and riding in a horse-drawn carriage flanked by guards in scarlet uniforms.