Red Cross pledges transparency amid trust crisis
2011-07-08 06:15:11
The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), one of China's leading government-sponsored charity organizations, on Thursday pledged to increase transparency in donations and expenditure management amid a mounting public trust crisis.
China's high-speed rail better than Shinkansen
2011-07-07 22:28:06
A spokesman of the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said Thursday that China's high-speed rail technologies are much better than those used by Japan's Shinkansen Line.
11 charged after S China unrest, officials sacked
2011-07-07 21:01:38
Eleven people who were allegedly involved in an incident of unrest in June in Guangdong province have been charged with obstruction of official affairs, causing a disturbance and intentional damage of property, local authorities said Thursday.
'Uncle Flatbread' is China's latest Internet star
2011-07-07 21:00:14
A photo of a good-looking flatbread maker has created a frenzy on China’s twitter-ike Weibo service, catapulting the figure, a 22-year-old Xinjiang native, to overnight fame.
Police detain man suspected of hacking Weibo
2011-07-07 20:03:41
Police in Beijing said Thursday they had detained a man who allegedly "maliciously" spread posts with their web addresses to a large number of users of China's popular microblogging service Sina Weibo.
4 dead, 1 injured in Xinjiang coal mine gas blast
2011-07-07 19:27:50
Four people were killed and another was seriously injured on Thursday in a gas explosion that occurred in a coal mine in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
China's first 'virtual property' insurance launched
2011-07-07 17:11:33
A Chinese insurance company has unveiled a new type of "virtual property" insurance that might be the first of its kind in the world.
An interview with Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone architect
2011-07-07 16:00:29
Jin Fengjun, the main author of the regional plan for the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone, talks about the development and focuses of the plan.
All-seeing, all-reaching Goddess of Mercy on display
2011-07-07 15:33:53
A gilt bronze statue of Guanyin, known as the Goddess of Mercy, with 11 heads, 1,000 eyes and hands, is on display at Henan Museum, July 5, 2011. The "Holy Tibet-Treasures from Land Closest to the Sky" exhibit is open to the public in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China’s Henan province. Over 127 precious items are being shown in the exhibition, which will run for two months starting July 6.
Five die in landslide in North China
2011-07-07 14:56:32
All five workers have been confirmed dead in a landslide that engulfed a boiler house Wednesday in north China's Shanxi province, local officials said Thursday.
Chengdu population fourth largest in Chinese cities
2011-07-07 14:08:43
According to China's sixth population census conducted in 2010, Chengdu topped sub-provincial cities in permanent resident population.
Two die, two others still trapped in landslide
2011-07-07 13:21:59
Two workers have been confirmed dead, one was rescued and hospitalized, and two others remain trapped in a landslide that engulfed a boiler house Wednesday in north Shanxi province, local officials said Thursday.