The Chinese mainland’s biggest antibiotics producer, in Harbin , Heilongjiang province , has been polluting its neighbourhood with poisonous gas and wastewater since the 1950s, according to a China Central Television report yesterday. CCTV report…
Category: Society
BEIJING – Red songs are no longer the exclusive property of Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality The whole nation has begun a musical campaign to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party…
CHANGSHA – A high school graduate fell to his death from a dormitory building Tuesday in central Hunan Province ahead of the national college entrance examination, local authorities confirmed Wednesday. The public security bureau in…
BEIJING – By the end of last year, the families of 272,000 victims of melamine-tainted milk and dairy products had signed up for one-time compensation payments, said a compensation fund manager. At least six babies…
In order to help its students improve their mental capacity to deal with stress, Hongtang High School in Ningbo city, in East China’s Zhejiang province, has introduced a psychological venting room, Zhejiang Daily reported on…
Three separate deaths of college-entrance-exam takers were reported in Hubei and Jiangsu provinces Monday, the first day of the exam, or Gaokao, highlighting the tremendous pressure that young examinees have to bear during China’s most…
A 21-year-old Chinese college student has been executed for stabbing to death a woman after the car he was driving struck and injured her, a case that has transfixed and outraged the nation. Yao Jiaxin,…
BEIJING – Onlookers can be forgiven for thinking that the whiskered middle-aged man walking into the exam room is a father of one of the test takers there. “] Liang Shi, 44, attends a class…
Most global polls rate Scandinavian and west European nations as being among the world’s happiest and most liveable. Not so says a North Korean survey, which ranked China as “the happiest place on earth.” As…
“I am a normal person. I have no crime or illegal petition”, Qian Mingqi’s micro blog said. “But I step on a road I don’t want to step on”. The words might have been those…