Missing 'bracelet' sets safety alarm bells ringing

2014-05-16 07:33:53

Monitoring procedures for all medical and industrial sources of radioactivity will be strengthened by authorities in Jiangsu province.

Hidden dangers, ruined lives

2014-05-15 08:02:45

Nearly seven decades after the end of World War II, chemical weapons discarded by retreating Japanese troops still pose a threat to life and limb.

Meeting mummy in the valley of the giants

2014-05-14 07:32:18

Archaeologists are examining claims that the area has long been home to a number of different races, report Cui Jia in Alar and Gao Bo in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Meeting mummy in the valley of the giants

2014-05-14 07:31:13

Archaeologists are examining claims that the area has long been home to a number of different races, report Cui Jia in Alar and Gao Bo in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

The city that's not forbidden, just avoided

2014-05-13 07:26:45

The number of foreign visitors to Beijing has been falling for several years, leading travel industry experts to examine ways of bringing them back.

Saying goodbye to a life of grime

2014-05-09 07:50:51

The village that has long been home to Beijing's hidden army of garbage collectors is facing demolition as China's capital city looks to redefine its role.

China catches running bug in quest for better health

2014-05-07 08:00:34

Races and participants are on the rise, with marathons big business.

Xi spreads the word on fighting terror

2014-05-06 07:21:44

Sweat mixed with dirt streamed down the face of Arken Tulak, chief of the Naizerbage police station in the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Xinjiang hopes to prove that the west is best

2014-04-30 08:41:57

In 2010, the central government decided to establish a Special Economic Zone in Kashgar city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The hope is that the city, which has a population of 700,000 - 79 percent of which are members of the Uygur ethnic group - will be able to replicate the success of Shenzhen, China's first and still most-successful SEZ, in the country's less-developed western region.

Documents prove the truth can't be buried

2014-04-29 08:44:00

Newly deciphered Japanese wartime archives offer fresh evidence of atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the invasion of China.

Race to remember story of resistance

2014-04-28 07:50:41

As next year's 70th anniversary of China's victory in the war against the Japanese approaches, historians and local residents are rediscovering the history of the shadowy group whose members were Hong Kong's only defenders during the occupation.