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People look at profile boards of possible candidates to find future partners for their children at a matchmaking event at a park in Beijing February 4, 2011.
The death toll from a minibus that crashed into a reservoir in Shaowu city, East China's Fujian province, Friday rose to 11 Saturday after another body was found.
The Chinese Lunar New Year begins on February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Beijing is likely to suffer its longest winter drought in 60 years, with no snow or rain likely to fall in the city within the next 10 days, the municipal meteorological bureau's chief weatherman said Tuesday.
A court on Jan 31 handed down the death penalty to the former deputy head of the anti-narcotics efforts in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
Three years after a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan province, once-devastated quake zones are regaining their vitality and residents are finding ways to continue their lives.
Six fire fighters were killed, with another two injured in fighting against a forest fire in Chun'an County, east China's Zhejiang Province as of Saturday evening.
Increasingly wealthy villagers in Taizhou of East China's Zhejiang province have built a huge wall around their village to ensure their safety.
A man was sentenced to death for kidnapping and caging two girls in a dungeon and raping nine other women, said a verdict of the Intermediate People's Court of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 30.
China is set to resume its development plans for the Nujiang River in Southwest China due to increasing demand for energy.
Unlike some easily-content officials, the governor of Southwest China's Guizhou province is still uneasy with the province's 12 percent annual GDP growth over the past five years.
Firefighters inspect the wreckage of a minivan after it collided with a truck on a highway near Baotou city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Monday, Jan 31, 2011. The accident killed seven people and severely injured one.