Protection of human rights gets big boost
2011-07-13 07:32:06
Chinese officials have hailed the country's improvements in curbing forced confessions and other illegal means of obtaining testimony as examples of the country's achievements in protecting human rights.
Cross-Straits youths meet
2011-07-13 07:29:48
President Hu encouraged young people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits to take part in more exchanges and to cooperate with one another while he attended an event on Tuesday.
China releases over 1b fish into Yangtze River
2011-07-13 06:52:05
A total of 1.3 billion fish were released into the Yangtze River on Tuesday as part of a project that will help to restore fishery resources that were affected by a recent drought, according to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).
73 hospitalized for diarrhea after flood
2011-07-13 06:43:07
total of 73 residents of a town in southwest China's Sichuan Province were hospitalized on Sunday for diarrhea, the local government said in a statement Tuesday.
Ethnic Minorities Games launch microblog
2011-07-12 22:36:00
A new promoting platform for the National Ethnic Minorities Games was officially launched on Tuesday. An official announced the games would be advertising via microblog.
Oil spill off coast under control
2011-07-12 22:14:09
The equipment hitch that caused an oil spill off China's northern coast on Tuesday was mostly cleaned up, according to China's largest offshore oil producer.
Power failure delays 29 bullet trains
2011-07-12 22:02:43
A power failure has delayed 29 trains on China's newly built high-speed railway linking Beijing and Shanghai, shortly after a similar incident halted 11 of the railway's trains two days ago.
China on alert of rain-led workplace safety
2011-07-12 22:01:59
China's top work safety supervisor on Tuesday asked local governments to guard against any natural disasters that may cause deadly accidents in workplaces across the country.
HK's first orangutan twin babies born
2011-07-12 21:26:34
A pigeon pair of Bornean orangutan twins were born in the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (HKZBG) last Friday, with the male baby weighing about 2 kg while the female about 1.4 kg.
Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Taiwan
2011-07-12 20:48:18
An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale jolted Taiwan at 19:17 Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Network Center.
Education program benefits Tibetan students
2011-07-12 20:47:09
In 2009, the province allocated more than 200 million yuan to launch the program providing free vocational education for Tibetan students in Sichuan for three yeas after they finish nine-year compulsory education.
4 trapped in coal mine explosion in SW China
2011-07-12 19:50:26
Four coal miners became trapped underground after a gas explosion occurred in a coal mine in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, local authorities said.