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.
The lost art of a gallery
2013-05-04 01:03:09
Threatened by aggressive auction houses and having a loose system of artist representation, Beijing galleries have been battling to survive since they first began to appear on the scene in the early 2000s.
Restaurants serve up measures to fight slump
2013-05-04 00:55:58
China's middle- and high-end restaurants are facing what industry insiders call a "chilly spring", with many taking measures to combat a drop in business.
No evidence of human transmission: WHO
2013-05-04 00:50:52
WHO reiterated on Friday there is still no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission of the new strain of H7N9 bird flu or reports of infection in animals outside China.