Category: Society
Around a dozen workers have been buried after a house collapsed Sunday morning in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, according to local government sources. The accident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Sunday at the site of an…
Does China’s nerve-racking gaokao college-entrance exam really identify the country’s best and brightest, or is it even sillier and more unfair than the SAT? SHANGHAI — For three days each June, all of China quiets…
BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) — Premier Wen Jiabao called on the country’s future teachers to be caring and devoted during his speech at a graduation ceremony Friday at Beijing Normal University for representatives of the…
Chinese citizens around the country have been debating a proposal to raise the threshold for individual income tax exemption to 3,000 yuan per month. The NPC Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, on Wednesday publicized suggestions…
BEIJING – The floods in Central and South China have killed another seven people and left seven more missing during the past three days, the government said on Wednesday. Heavy rains that have lashed several…
BEIJING — College candidates are on a spending spree to celebrate their survival of the National College Entrance Examination, which concluded on Thursday. The world’s largest standardized college entrance examination, more than 9 million students…
A man who slashed a female CCTV employee in the face as she walked on the street was arrested Friday. The employee was near the former CCTV headquarters in Haidian when a man approached her…
LHASA – More than 100 people in nearly 60 vehicles were trapped after a rain-triggered landslide Monday interrupted traffic on a highway in Tibet autonomous region. The debris of the landslide, which happened around 8…
Li Lindong, a coal truck driver, was sentenced to death on Wednesday for killing a Mogolian herder, according to the Intermediate People’s Court of the Xilingol League in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The sentence was…