Zuo Kaihua makes her living memorializing the dead. Since the 40-year-old Tibetan farmer’s house was destroyed by the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake and her land – located at the edge of what became a mass grave…
Category: Society
BEIJING – The Ministry of Public Security announced Tuesday that the country’s security guards, totaling 4.2 million, will start putting on a new type of uniform and badge, beginning late this month. The new uniform,…
BEIJING – In an attempt to improve the welfare of China’s rapidly aging population, the government is now paying monthly subsidies to 8 million of the nation’s 19 million people above the age of 80,…
The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) opened its official microblog on Sina’s microblog service Weibo, a Chinese-language Twitter clone, Monday to better interact with netizens amid a mounting public trust crisis. As of 4:30…
BEIJING – More than 9,000 convicts or criminal suspects on the run have turned themselves in to police since China launched an online campaign to hunt down escapees one month ago, the Ministry of Public…
BEIJING – With millions of migrant workers pouring into China’s cities every year from the countryside, social security experts are calling for a mechanism that will link the nation’s urban and rural pension systems. Currently,…
YINGXIU, Sichuan – Rescuers have been battling to help people affected by mudslides brought about by intense rain in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, but officials and locals said on Tuesday that the situation on…
WUHAN – A survivor of a road crash that killed 23 people on Monday has spoken of how her hero husband was swallowed by a raging bus blaze. Lu Yufeng, 22, and her younger sister…
URUMQI – In less than two years, Rena Abdurrahman has gone from being a frightened young mother in a dangerous slum in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to being the owner of…
Beijing – The capital plans to spend more than 15 billion yuan ($2.32 billion) on a program to renovate old houses as part of major efforts to achieve its ambitious goal of providing more comfortable…