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Police in Hunan province have tracked down three criminal groups that organized betting on soccer via the Internet. More than 600 million yuan ($88 million) have reportedly been wagered since 2007. Twenty-two suspects including the three leaders, Feng Bifei, Wang Chao, and Guo ...
Officials in one village in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region are using a sort of caste system to distribute welfare and compensation funds, disrupting residents' lives, according to a recent news report. For the past 16 years, a highly unequal distribution of government funds ...
A former chief of the salt administration bureau in Guangdong province admitted accepting bribes during his tenure in court, saying his mistress forced him to do so. Shen Zhiqiang, former director of the Guangdong salt administration bureau, accused of receiving 650,000 yuan ($95...
An illegal taxi driver, recently fined 4,000 yuan by the Haidian district urban administration, or chengguan, is fighting his case claiming he was a victim of entrapment. If entrapment is proven it will be the first such case in Beijing, following the recent success of a similar ...
Two men involved in a black-money scam were captured on Nov 7 in a police set-up, Beijing authorities said yesterday. According to a press release from the exit and entry administration of the Beijing municipal public security bureau, two African men were arrested at a hotel near ...
Students at China's prestigious Peking University (PKU) have listed issuing excessive leaflets among the top 10 wasteful phenomena on campus. The list, issued in late December, was formulated based on a month of opinion poll at the PKU, said Tan Yufei, secretary of the Youth ...
Smoking bans on bullet trains need to be strictly followed, railway officials urged passengers yesterday after three trains on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed line were delayed due to alarms apparently set off by a smoker on train G1048, which was scheduled to leave for Wuhan at 2...
Celebrities busy taking part in annual company gatherings at year end Most entertainment stars will raise their appearance fees by as much as 50 percent for private parties during the Spring Festival holiday, insiders revealed. On a 12-page "celebrity appearance fee list" from a ...
Yuanmingyuan Park is disputing public claims they will profit from running a royal temple fair and that the event would harm the cultural heritage sites. Chen Mingjie, director of the park's administrative office, said in an online interview on Wednesday that the park, once ...
Cigarettes have turned out to be among the most popular gifts for the upcoming Spring Festival, a public health survey has found. More than half of the poll's 1,200 respondents, some of whom are smokers, said they will give away cartons of cigarettes as gifts during the ...
A Beijing court began hearing the first trials yesterday involving alleged wrongdoers connected to the massive blaze that damaged the multi-billion-yuan China Central Television (CCTV) high-rise one year ago. Beijing No 2 Intermediate Court said yesterday it had received a case ...
Pearl River region faces trouble attracting workers after festival GUANGZHOU: Companies in the Pearl River Delta region, one of the world's largest manufacturing bases, are facing a serious shortage of migrant workers after the Spring Festival. "Many companies have increased ...
The lack of workers immediately after the Spring Festival in coastal areas is in striking contrast with the redundancy of migrant workers more than a year ago when the areas' processing industry was deeply affected by the economic meltdown. But is there really a shortage of ...
The upcoming China Central Television Spring Festival Gala, expected to attract as much as 95 percent of Chinese viewers on Saturday night, has driven scalpers into a frenzy with sales of the main event and the rehearsals. A scalper surnamed Gu, who posted an ad to sell tickets ...
SHANGHAI: Some Shanghai office workers and college students are making money by reselling extra railway tickets they bought during the ongoing Spring Festival travel season, a time when billions of Chinese crisscross the country to enjoy the big day with their families. According ...
Maison Mode is now little more than a memory among the high-end department stores in Beijing, after a period of business in which it failed to nail the market. METRO decided to find out what went wrong. The department store shut up shop on the last day of 2009 at its last ...
A court in Linyi, Shandong province, acquitted seven villagers who, three years ago, became warrantors for their boss who took a 3-million-yuan bank loan and fled. The seven illiterate men were employed in a local factory. Their boss asked them to sign on a piece of paper, which ...
It took more than 100 employees of a showroom four hours to count 700 kg of coins a customer paid to buy a car in Luohe, Henan province, last week. The customer, surnamed Li, who runs a restaurant, hired a van to transport the coins, contained in 20 huge plastic bags, to the car ...
Solar power will be used to heat the inflight meals of up to 30,000 passengers as part of the Beijing municipal government's 200 million yuan green energy plan. Li Zhen, assistant manager of the equipment maintenance department at Beijing Airport Inflight Kitchen Ltd, said ...
Record low temperatures and the worst sea ice in 30 years have caused huge losses to sea-farmers and fishermen as well as chaos on the streets of Shandong and Liaoning provinces. About 40 percent of the Bohai Sea's surface is already frozen. Sea-farmers said they expected nothing ...
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic ...
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by ...
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev ...
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Financial reform in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
China's banks must evolve or perish
China's banks must evolve or perish
As China's traditional banks raise interest rates to claw back lost ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi Winter Games
Injured Olympic champion Wang Meng has been ruled out of the 139...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...