More than 20 laid-off workers of a state-owned enterprise in Guiyang City (the provincial capital of Guizhou, located in southwestern China) attempted suicide on Saturday, June 27, by swallowing ag...

There were many good mothers in ancient China who paid special attention to their children's education. The following are inspirational stories of two mothers who taught their children to be pu...

CHINA-Earthquake parents from Beichuan delivered a petition letter to the Sichuan provincial appeals department on July 2, to request an answer as to who should be held for responsible for the "Tof...

Private equity market in China kept expanding in the second quarter, with the total value of 33 disclosed projects reaching 2.56 billion U.S. dollars, up 10.7 percent against the first quarter. The 33 private equity investments were ...

Beijing's tourism authorities have said they are going to target visitors from other Asian countries as guests of the city's homestay scheme for the Olympics. The city has already selected 571 families and hopes to have about 600 ho ...

The Kenyan government has stepped up campaigns to woo Chinese investors so as to benefit from the one billion U.S. dollar China-Africa Development Fund. A local daily, Saturday Nation, reported that the business scope of the fund ma ...

Taiwan media and business people on Saturday welcomed the new weekend charter flights carrying mainland tourists as good news for ties across the Taiwan Strait and for the economy. The event made headlines such as "We have been wait ...

The Australian, the biggest-selling national newspaper in the country, has highly praised the efforts made by the Chinese government in preparing the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games. "We should all wish the People's Republic of China ...

Five hundred children from China's quake-hit province of Sichuan will tour Russia's Primorsky territory for rehabilitation, the regional press service said Saturday. These Chinese children are expected to arrive in Primorsky on July ...

An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale jolted east China's Fujian Province at 9:36 a.m. on Saturday, and moderate aftershocks are expected, China's seismological authorities said. The epicenter was located along the bounda ...

Rescuers had recovered seven bodies from debris as 8:40 p.m. on Saturday after an under-construction building collapsed on Saturday afternoon in central China's Hubei Province. At least 10 construction workers were buried after the ...

Heavy rainstorms that swept through most parts of China since Tuesday have left at least 12 dead, seven missing and about 3 million affected. The casualties were reported after the rainstorms and flooding killed 252 people across Ch ...

Rescuers had recovered seven bodies from debris as 10:50 p.m. on Saturday after an under-construction building collapsed on Saturday afternoon in central China's Hubei Province. In addition, 13 others were rescued and sent to local ...

Training area for the athletes to compete in the Olympic sailing competition in August is now clear from the algae invasion in the host city of Qingdao. "If the weather is cooperative, athletes are able to complete their sailing cou

The headmaster and building contractor were arrested Saturday after a school building wall collapsed and killed four students in southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in mid-June. Four students were killed and eight were inj ...

As of 12:00 Saturday, the death toll of the May 12 Earthquake in China remained unchanged, standing at Friday's figure of 69,196, according to a government report. So far, 374,176 people were injured and 18,381 still missing in the ...

Artist Peng Guolong displays two of his Nuo masks at Jiutang Village in the Xiangdong District of Pingxiang City, southeast China's Jiangxi Province, July 4, 2008 ...

Wu Shuisen, a leading craft worker of Wan'an compass, puts the final touches on the compass scale in Wan'an Town of Xiuning County, east China's Anhui Province, J ...

As northern China enters its flood season, Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged local authorities to step up flood-control preparations. Hui made the remarks on Saturday at a flood control conference after a two-day tour inspe ...

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has praised Guangdong's pioneer role in the 30-year reform and opening drive and urged the south China province to continue promote cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions (SARs) ...