CHINA Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines announced yesterday that they will fully refund passengers due to the cancellation of extra cross-Strait flights for the upcoming Spring Festival, which were obstructed by the Taiwan aviation authority.
2018-01-31
SOUTHWEST China’s Yunnan Province has built stations for quick HIV testing across its rural area, in the latest effort to control HIV/AIDS, provincial health authorities said.
2018-01-30
MANY Chinese parents worry that having a second child will put a strain on their financial resources, but parents in Shandong Province are the most unlikely to succumb to the idea.
CHINA’S first online sharing platform for integrated circuits and microsystems has been launched by a State-owned enterprise.
2018-01-29
CHINA’S popular social media platform Sina Weibo has been asked by the country’s Internet regulator to overhaul sections that carry “harmful content.”
HEAVY snow and ice has continued to affect central and eastern parts of China over the weekend, causing economic losses, and cancellations and delays to flights and coaches.
A TOTAL of 14 trains halted operations along the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway Thursday after a high-speed train caught fire at Dingyuan Station, Anhui Province.
2018-01-26
GUANGDONG Province, an economic powerhouse in south China, plans to put another 20,000 industrial robots into use this year, aimed at sharpening its edge in manufacturing.
GUANGDONG authorities yesterday closed a company making and translating subtitles for seemingly innocent cartoons, which actually contain scenes of a violent and sexual nature.
2018-01-25
CHINA has accomplished its first successful Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), with a 1.2-meter telescope laser ranging system.
A UNIVERSITY in East China’s Zhejiang Province has introduced artificial intelligence (AI) to correct the test papers for its Chinese language course.
2018-01-24
THE top environment authority named and shamed three provincial regions — Qinghai and Yunnan provinces and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region — on Monday for their delayed efforts to fulfill their water pollution reduction targets.
CHINA’S maritime authority has detected several oil slicks in the East China Sea, close to the location where the Panama-registered, Iranian-owned oil tanker Sanchi sank after a ship collision one week ago.
2018-01-23
CHINA will begin selection for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country’s planned space station, China Daily reported yesterday.
CHINA’S economic growth pickup in 2017 was better than expected and accompanied by improving quality, efficiency, and structure, a spokesperson for the country’s top economic planner said yesterday.
GRASS-ROOTS governments in Beijing are now required to conduct weekly home visits to elderly residents who live in their own homes.
2018-01-22
LAWMAKERS in Central China’s Hunan Province are reviewing a law revision that would require kindergartens to provide parents with access to their monitoring video, so that they can see whether their children are being well cared for.
CHINA’S first court specializing in Internet-related cases plans to propose a national online ID system for filing legal email and confirming the identity of litigants, according to the court official.
JUST one month ahead of Spring Festival, the most important family gathering festival in China, the Taiwan’s aviation authority has decided not to approve 176 additional cross-Strait flights operated by China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
CHINA Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines, two giant airlines in China, announced Wednesday that the use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) will be allowed during flight starting Thursday, while China Southern Airlines and XiamenAir said they will carry out the new rule Friday.
2018-01-19