Inspection set on food safety enforcement

China's top legislature will inspect enforcement of the new food safety law in 10 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions from mid-April...

Attacks on Chinese student at Paris metro stirs concerns

News of a female student being abused and assaulted at Paris metro five days ago has stirred concerns among Chinese Internet users.

Female rides subway, buses wearing facial mask

Don't get time for beauty treatment due to busy schedule? Well, here's a female who has found an ingenious way to squeeze time.

Money incentives used to cut PM2.5

Zhengzhou, Henan province, which is among the 10 Chinese cities with the worst air pollution in 2015, has begun imposing heavy fines on its distr...

Calling cards are lucrative tool used by pimps

The use of calling cards to promote prostitution in Beijing hotels is an easy and lucrative way to reach clients, a woman engaged in so-called en...

Shanghai toughens rule on auto plates

A ban on temporary out-of-city license plates on cars operating within Shanghai's Outer Ring Road could put drivers who do not have permanent pla...

Hawking joins Sina Weibo and is instant hit

British physicist Stephen Hawking has opened an account on Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo, amassing more than 2 million followers withi...

China to tighten rules on baby formula

BEIJING -- China will tighten its regulation on baby formula after a recent scandal, an official statement said on Wednesday.

Beijing's Zhongguancun Street gets facelift fund

BEIJING - Beijing plans to set up an 8-billion- yuan (about $1.53 billion) fund for a facelift for Zhongguancun Street, a key thoroughfare in nor...

Stricken Mother's 25 Yr Search for Missing Son

Yang Suhui, 56, from Zhejiang Province, eastern China, has been searching for her lost son named Xu Jianfeng for over 25 years in Guangzhou, sout...