A former vice mayor in east China's Anhui Province was sentenced to 12 years and half Wednesday for taking 1.6 million yuan (234,297 U.S. dollars) in bribes. Lv Jinbao, former vice mayor of Ma'anshan City, was convicted of taking more

The award ceremony of the "Global News Day for Children" program, initiated by Xinhua News Agency and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), was held here Wednesday. The 24-hour global campaign, joined by 927 media organizations from 83 countries and

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang urged the nation to "actively" and "firmly" push forward urbanization as an important way to deal with the international financial crisis, boost domestic consumption, and restructure the economy. He made the remarks during his inspection

A court in east China Wednesday handed down jail terms of up to three years to 11 people for their roles in writing and distributing viruses designated to steal usernames and passwords of online games. Lv Yizhong and Zeng Yifu

The Chinese government Wednesday pledged to tighten supervision on mobile WAP sites in a bid to curb rampant pornography. The government will draft a regulation specially on WAP sites, which provide Internet service for mobile phones, before March next year,

Beijing police on Wednesday sealed up 316 emulational guns, most of which had been sold via the Internet. The guns, mostly made of metal, were purchased mainly by military fans, collectors and players of Counter Strike, a shooting computer game,

China on Wednesday protested the proposed draft texts of the Copenhagen climate change conference the Danish chair put forward without consulting the parties to the conference. "This is a party-driven process, you can't just put forward a text from the

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met separately with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Mizuho Fukushima on Wednesday on the third and final day of his visit in the country, saying it was a success.

Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, which falls on Dec. 20, said the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee General Office on Wednesday. Hu, also general

Senior Chinese and Polish military officials held talks here Wednesday afternoon on bolstering military ties. China would work with Poland to promote in-depth development of bilateral military relations, said Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie when having talks with visiting Polish

A majority of public representatives voted for a proposed water price hike of 24.3 percent at a public hearing in Beijing Wednesday, but they also agreed to phase in rises over the next three years. Twenty-four representatives of residents, industrial

Seven people are dead after a pickup truck plunged 60 meters off a bridge under construction into a river in southwest China's Guizhou Province Wednesday, local police said. The accident occurred at about 6 a.m. when the truck was en

Zhao Jiagui, a farmer from central China's Henan Province, prefers the lights off when helping prepare dinner at a villa in Beijing's southern suburbs for her relatives. "Why should I turn on the lights if I can see clearly enough?"

China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has launched a half-month nationwide inspection campaign to ensure winter fire prevention and control measures are implemented. Wang Qinlin, deputy director of the ministry's fire department, said 10 work teams would be sent to

China on Wednesday repeated its stance against proposed carbon tariffs, which would contain the development of global trade, according to Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian. China firmly opposed the carbon tariffs proposed by some individuals and international organizations as

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left Beijing Wednesday afternoon to attend the leaders' meeting of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 17 and 18. Wen's entourage includes the heads of the Foreign Ministry, the National Development and Reform

Chinese President and chairman of the Central Military Commission &$&$ has issued an order to commend the People's Liberation Army troops stationed in the MacaoSpecial Administrative Region (SAR). The troops were praised for upholding the theoretic system of socialism with

One in four Chinese cities and seven out of 10 counties are without a sewage-treatment plant, and that widespread omission is being blamed for contributing to the nation's worsening water pollution. The issue was highlighted Sunday by a senior official

A Chinese government spokesperson said Wednesday that this month's talks between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on the island will be supported and welcomed by Taiwan compatriots. The mainland believed the Taiwan authorities would take necessary measures to maintain security

As of December 13, the total number of automobiles in Beijing had reached 3.99 million and there are 5.67 million people with driver licenses, according to information released by Beijing Traffic Management Bureau yesterday. Beijing saw a net increase of