Parents blamed for begging, performing
2011-02-15 06:55:00
Parents should be temporarily deprived of their custody rights if they are found renting out their children to beg on the streets, a leading activist against child begging said. Man putting brakes on trafficking of children
Mainland buyers snap up baby milk powder
2011-02-14 07:05:18
GUANGZHOU - Macao is following Hong Kong in reporting a shortage of, and price increases for, infant and baby milk powder, with visitors and smugglers from the mainland snapping up stocks during the Chinese new year holiday.
Greater efforts to rescue child beggars
2011-02-12 07:53:40
An online campaign to publish photos of child beggars is assisting authorities to crack down on gangs that kidnap children and to help reunite kidnapped children with their families.
Police increase efforts to rescue child beggars
2011-02-12 07:53:40
An online campaign to publish photos of child beggars is assisting authorities to crack down on gangs that kidnap children and to help reunite kidnapped children with their families.
Civil servant paid for doing nothing
2011-02-12 07:37:07
Can I get a job like that, too? A freeloading civil servant has become the target of Internet slurs after netizens discovered he had been paid for more than seven years without working a single day.
Stolen boy home thanks to micro blogs
2011-02-09 06:37:46
The largest-ever online campaign successfully helped parents find their 6-year-old child, who had been missing for three years.
Divorced actress Yao outdoes Oprah
2011-01-29 08:47:25
Actress Yao Chen on Friday became the first Chinese micro-blogger to have more than 5 million followers, even more than US mega-celebrity Oprah Winfrey - underlining the rapid growth of the platform in China.
Small fireworks workshops blamed for faulty products
2011-01-28 08:13:39
The latest national governmental investigation into the safety of fireworks production found that more than half of the fireworks made by small workshops are unsafe, despite the country's best efforts to protect the public, a senior official said.
Report: China's crisis responses are lacking
2011-01-28 07:44:14
Events that constituted a "public crisis" occurred every five days on average in China in 2010, and the country needs to become better at dealing with them, according to a report from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Officials plugged into online slang
2011-01-28 07:09:05
The hottest cyber words of last year have crept into government and Party leaders' speeches, making the coming Spring Festival more "geilivable".
A tale of 2 cities for property tax reform
2011-01-28 07:07:56
Shanghai and Chongqing will launch the first-ever property tax for second-home buyers, part of a series of government measures to curb soaring prices and real-estate speculation.
More trains for festival travel peak
2011-01-28 06:58:28
China's railway stations are increasing the heating and adding trains for the peak flow of passengers, as millions of travelers boarded trains in frigid weather to go home for the Spring Festival celebrations.