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AS winter sets in, cheap electric hand warmers have been selling well at street markets and on e-commerce platforms although many may be unsafe as they often fail to meet national standards, business insiders have warned. The warmers use electricity to heat up a liquid inside. Street...

A SURVEY on what Chinese men and women worry about these days has revealed a gender divide with male respondents reportedly worrying about not having enough money while females saying they fret about aging. Twenty million Internet users responded to the survey on the Chinese search engine...

IN the latest twist to the ongoing controversy over Beijing's car plate scandal, it has emerged that it is the son of the capital's traffic management chief that embroiled his father in the wrongdoing. Media reports on Thursday accused Song Jianguo, the director of Beijing Traffic Management...

PAN Xueying, 73, said she regretted killing her husband after a fight about their house, and she said she was giving up any rights for the couple's common property in a hearing yesterday at the Xuhui District People's Court. The woman, who strangled her husband to death around midnight on...

A single mother bit off the penis of her 9-year-old son in a state of delirium on Sunday in Yibin, a city in southwestern Sichuan Province, local media reported. The boy is not in critical condition after hospital treatment but he would suffer lifetime disability, the doctors told the...

The police chief of Usu, a small city in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is being investigated for keeping twin sisters as his concubines after someone revealed it on the Internet early this week. The disciplinary department was alerted by the online post and has begun probing...

A SHANGHAI tenant who refused to move out of her rental apartment even after she was given detention of 15 days was sentenced to two years in prison by the Zhabei District People's Court yesterday. The middle-aged woman, surnamed Chen, had made many excuses for staying in the apartment on...

A 73-year-old Shanghai man fainted after taking a tonic that contained the same chemical synthesis as Viagra, officials from the PLA No. 411 Hospital said today. The patient said a saleswoman came to his neighborhood in Hongkou District one week ago to promote a tonic medicine made from...

The seven-day administrative detention of a villager in Yiliang county, Yunnan province, for "stopping Premier Wen Jiabao's car" has been revoked, local police said on Friday. In September, Liang Yonglan, 29, knelt and petitioned to Wen regarding local land acquisitions with other three...

BEIJING - China's first high-speed rail line in the country's freezing high-latitude regions is ready for service, the Ministry of Railways announced Saturday. The railway linking northeastern Chinese city of Harbin and port city of Dalian will start service on December 1, marking the world's...

LIAONING AIRCRAFT CARRIER - China has successfully conducted flight landing on its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, naval sources said. A new J-15 fighter jet was used as part of the landing exercise. After its delivery to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on September 25, the...

Interesting read on "historical solutions" to fiscal cliff. AS US President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans seek to resolve the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for next year, a mutually agreeable solution is lurking...

PUNISHING and preventing corruption is a "serious political battle" for both the Communist Party of China and the country, according a report released yesterday by the Party's discipline watchdog. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has vowed heavier supervision of all its Party...

Going to China and wanna drink? Best to buy your bottle from DFS in Singapore and bring it over. A LIQUOR company is disputing the findings of a testing company in Shanghai that its products contain excessive and toxic plasticizers which could impair male sexual function and even cause...

SHANGHAI police said that since September, they have busted four organized prostitution rings that worked in economy hotels and detained 62 suspects. Police said the gangs operated much like the largest and most recent case, in which they detained 33 suspects in October for running...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led the other newly-elected members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau to meet the press this morning at the Great Hall of the People. "I am very glad to...

SOMETIMES it's the small things such as a stray hair or a dog that cause those who have vowed "until death do us part'' to decide to return to the single life. Examples aren't hard to find in Shanghai, where the divorce rate reached 39 percent last year, which earned the city a No. 2 ranking...

CHINA is expected to become the world's largest economy in four years as the balance of economic power is forecast to shift over the next five decades, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has forecast. Fast-growing emerging economies will account for an ever-increasing...

THERE was excitement but a little heartache too for millions of bargain hunters yesterday as China's Singles Day evolved into what is probably the world's biggest online shopping event. The 50,000-plus merchants on Alibaba's consumer-oriented Tmall.com took in 13.2 billion yuan (US$2.1...

SUPPLY of new residential properties fell to the lowest in 40 weeks in Shanghai last week while purchases remained above the 200,000-square-meter threshold for the fifth straight week, industry data showed today. Excluding government-funded affordable housing, 19,200 square meters of new...