SOE supervisor vows to boost transparency
2011-05-22 08:56:31
China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) supervisor on Saturday said it would work to make the SOEs management more transparent after China's top auditor publicized irregularities among a number of famed SOEs.
China expects higher rice planting acre
2011-05-22 08:36:48
China may see increased planting acre of early rice this year, though drought has not been relieved in some areas, said a statement on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday.
Offbeat hairstyle creations presented in Taipei
2011-05-21 22:57:49
Replacing the real hair, hair stylists presented their offbeat creations made of plants, magazine paper, plastic tubes and cloth here.
Wenchuan people see off post-quake builders
2011-05-21 21:37:18
Guo An, a farmer in Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, got up at 4 am yesterday to pick cherries in his fields before walking for one hour and a half to the county seat, joining others in sending off people from Guangdong who had helped his county in post-quake reconstruction.
Online microresumes are a hit for job seekers
2011-05-21 14:52:38
"Microresumes" have become especially popular this May, as prospective university graduates are getting ready to enter the workforce. Graduate students are particularly likely to post their resumes on their microblogs.
4 Chinese missing after tour boat sinks in Vietnam
2011-05-21 13:13:15
Four Chinese people were reported missing and feared dead after a double-decker tour boat sank on Friday night in southern Vietnam, Chinese consul-general in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City Xu Mingliang told Xinhua Saturday.
1st postdoctoral research station set up in Tibet
2011-05-21 11:31:42
The General Hospital of the Tibet Military Command, specialized in research on acute mountain sickness, set up the region's first postdoctoral research station on Friday.
China convicts 106 over food safety in 8 months
2011-05-21 09:56:19
Courts in China have heard 61 cases involving food safety violations and convicted 106 criminals over the past eight months, according to a statement issued by the Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Friday.
China's major rice-growing areas suffering drought
2011-05-21 09:50:39
An ongoing drought has jeopardized rice crops in Central China's Hunan and Hubei provinces, two major rice-growing regions in the country.
Model's death puts light on overwork
2011-05-21 09:17:33
The obituary notice of Ai Weiwei, an online model in East China's Fujian province, has been widely circulated in cyber space, generating sorrow at the loss of a young life and retraining the spotlight on health concerns of young workers.
'Life is really, really hard' for Beijing talents
2011-05-21 09:12:04
Low incomes, soaring housing prices and traffic jams have hampered the capital city's ambition to lure talent, according to the 2011 Blue Book of Beijing's Talent.
136 people suffering high lead level in Guangzhou
2011-05-21 09:04:29
Tests have confirmed that 136 people living near a battery plant in South China's Guangdong province have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood, local authorities said on Friday.