The news that local family planning officials have been seizing babies and selling them overseas for adoption has sent shock waves through the nation. The actions of the officials have been condemned for sheer inhumanity…
Category: Society
Museum burglars bring to mind a Sean Connery type sneaking through a ceiling. Museum security was usually thought to be so good that those looking to steal art would be forced to come up with…
A bun shop in Shanghai, days after a supplier’s license was revoked. The nation’s food scandals are proliferating again.
Beijing-based performance artist Cheng Li, 57, was sentenced to one year of “re-education through labor” for “disturbing public order” on Friday by Tongzhou district branch of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, according to Cheng’s lawyer,…
Three years after a devastating earthquake, the worst-hit areas in Sichuan and neighboring provinces, phoenix-like, have risen from the rubble. Ninety-five percent of reconstruction projects have been completed, with the remainder set to be finished…
A grandmother from Beijing has become China’s latest sensation after an energetic, Michael Jackson-inspired, dance routine on national television.
According to industry analysts, purchasers of luxury goods should receive one more lavish advantage, little tax. Analysts said the nation should adjust its marketplace for luxury goods to keep the overwhelming purchasing power of Chinese…
Beijing is showing increasing political willingness to interfere with the housing market, with the latest circular from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission urging corporations under central government control to play an active part…
• Lack of forfeit puts onus on businesses to set rules
• Tobacco brings 10th of country’s tax earnings
• One in two men light up and few know health risks
BEIJING – Provinces that export labor topped a list of places whose populations contained the largest number of divorcees in the first quarter of the year. Experts said that dubious distinction resulted from the fact…