Three dead in knife attack in downtown Beijing
2013-05-04 19:54:47
A knife-wielding man stabbed two people to death and injured another in downtown Beijing Saturday, local police said. The assailant also died from injuries suffered while resisting police arrest.
Chinese Americans in LA chip in for quake victims
2013-05-04 18:50:12
A Chinese American group in Los Angeles on Friday collected about $71,900 in donation for the victims in the recent deadly earthquake in China's Sichuan province.
Rainfall to hit S China
2013-05-04 13:29:53
Rainfall will continue affecting South China in the next three days while temperature keep rising in the North, meteorological authorities forecast on Saturday.
New species of meat-eating dinosaur found in China
2013-05-04 11:26:14
Biologists said on Friday they have discovered the fossil remains of a baby dinosaur in China that represents a new species of small theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur.
Beijing's Garden Expo ready for trial run on Sunday
2013-05-04 09:56:44
The Ninth China (Beijing) International Garden Expo is ready for its trial run on Sunday, now that construction work is done.
30m students enjoy nutritional lunch program
2013-05-04 02:38:57
More than 30 million students in rural China are now benefiting from a nutritional lunch program launched by the government, according to Vice Education Minister Lu Xin on Friday.
90m members in China Communist Youth League
2013-05-04 02:37:38
The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) has a total of 89.906 million members as of the end of 2012, CYLC's central organization department said on Friday.
10 abducted children handed over to Vietnam
2013-05-04 01:30:00
China's Ministry of Public Security on Friday handed over 10 children trafficked from Vietnam to its Vietnamese counterpart in a border city in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Unified standards for bottled water in the pipeline
2013-05-04 01:23:58
Food safety authorities announced on Friday that plans to create new, unified national standards on bottled drinking water are under way.
Crackdown on food crimes
2013-05-04 01:18:16
The Supreme People's Court said on Friday it will impose harsher sentences on people convicted of crimes related to food safety. In 2012, number of cases rose 224.62 percent.
Former official sentenced to life imprisonment for graft
2013-05-04 01:14:35
Huang Sheng, the former deputy governor of Shandong province, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for accepting bribes of more than 12.23 million yuan ($1.98 million).
Continua paints a picture of optimism
2013-05-04 01:09:41
There's no shortage of work by international artists on view in Beijing, but they tend to be grouped in galleries by their country of origin.