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Two donation boxes were set up in front of canteens in Beijing's Tsinghua University, one of the top universities in China, to collect money for earthquake victims. One box was for victims of the 5.8-magnitude earthquake last Thursday in southwest China's Yunnan Province that ...
A food safety expert has urged that China's paper cups must meet national quality standards as his latest survey showed some paper cups on sale contained cancer-causing chemicals, the Legal Daily reports. The International Food Packaging Association (IFPA), a Hong Kong-based non...
Blizzard and sandstorm paralyzed traffic in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Wednesday, stranding thousands of people in airports, trains and road transport hubs. About 59 flights were delayed or canceled at Urumqi International Airport, a major airport in ...
Chinese scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus carried by ticks which led to 36 deaths in six provinces by last September, according to the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published Thursday. The virus SFTSV (severe fever with thrombocytopenia ...
Nineteen pigs in central China's Henan Province have tested positive to having a banned additive in their urine, the city government said Thursday. Out of 689 pigs awaiting slaughter and processing by Jiyuan Shuanghui Food Co., Ltd, a subsidiary company of China's largest meat ...
China's largest salt maker relieved public concern Thursday, saying the country has substantial salt reserves to meet the demand for the product. "We have ample salt reserves to meet people's needs and panic buying and hoarding is unnecessary," China National Salt Industry Corp. ...
About 900 electronic parking meters will be put to use in Beijing before April 1, according to the Municipal Commission of Transport. It said the meters will be used for street parking in crowded downtown areas in China's capital city. Beijing first introduced parking meters in ...
Chinese scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus carried by ticks which led to at least 36 deaths in six provinces by last September, according to the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published Thursday. The virus SFTSV (severe fever with ...
A plant thought to have been abandoned exploded Wednesday, leaving two dead, two missing, in central China's Hunan Province, an official said Thursday. The explosion occurred at 7:30 p.m. at the plant in Linwu County of Chenzhou City, which shattered windows of nearby houses, ...
The death toll from a multi-vehicle crash in south China's island province of Hainan has risen to eight after a severely injured person died in the hospital Thursday afternoon. The massive crash, which involved four trucks and a MPV, occurred at around 5:40 a.m. Thursday on a ...
Rescuers on Thursday rescued one crew member and are searching for the others who were on a sand barge that capsized off the coast of east China's Shandong Province on Wednesday. Some 17-18 people were on board at the time of the accident, the survivor said, but he was not sure ...
China's seawater, as a source of salt, would not be affected by radioactive leaks following explosions at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, said the country's marine environment watchdog Thursday amid a salt panic among the public. The National Marine ...
Chinese shares closed lower Thursday, snapping Wednesday's rebound, over concerns that Japan's nuclear crisis could cripple the world's third-largest economy. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 33.51 points, or 1.14 percent, to 2,897.30 points. The Shenzhen Component ...
China International Contractors Association said Thursday that 126 Chinese trainees were unable to be reached in Japan's quake-hit regions as of 10:00 a.m. Thursday Beijing Time. These trainees are located in the quake-stricken regions including Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures. Most ...
China is taking measures to stabilize its grain production as severe drought in its major wheat belt triggers food security concerns. China aims to keep its 2011 grain production over 1 trillion jin (500 million tonnes), according to Thursday's executive meeting of the State ...
It started with the provision of a list of officials' telephone numbers, but before long reporters were sitting side-by-side with officials, closely monitoring the progress of the rescue efforts. As the southwest Yingjiang County buzzed with rescue and relief work after the 5.8...
More than 130,000 Internet cafes operating without the proper licenses were closed over the past six years as part of the Chinese government's long-term efforts to regulate the market, as recently reported. According to the "2010 China Internet Cafe Market Report," which was ...
A coal mine owner agreed on Thursday to provide compensation amounting to 660,000 yuan (100,400 U.S. dollars) for each family of nine miners killed in a gas explosion on Wednesday in southwest China's Yunnan Province. A gas leak happened in the Jiala Coal Mine in Huangnihe Town ...
Hong Kong is planning to conduct a large-scale exercise to test the emergency response and co-ordination mechanism for handling a nuclear incident, said the city's Under Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok on Saturday. Speaking on a radio talk show, Lai said that Hong Kong will ...
Beijingers woke Friday to see a yellowish-grey sky that heralded the year's first apparent sandstorm, as strong winds from Mongolia, packing dust on its way, hit the Chinese capital. Pedestrians put on glasses, face masks and overcoats with a hood while vehicles parked on the ...
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