21 Aug 2012

Four former top Chongqing police officers have waived their right to appeal after receiving jail sentences of five to 11 years for helping to conceal the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood...

3:23AM
21 Aug 2012

Developers will not be able to skip "unlucky" numbers such as four, 13 and 14 in the registration of Beijing addresses after a new regulation comes into effect on Saturday.

3:23AM
20 Aug 2012

Researchers in China have been coming up with some truly eye-popping numbers lately.

7:19AM
18 Aug 2012

Troubles continue to plague NVC Lighting Holding, the Hong Kong-listed firm that issued an announcement on Tuesday listing a host of problems including resignations and disputes with its former...

3:10AM
17 Aug 2012

The spot where suspected serial robber and killer Zhou Kehua died in a blaze of gunfire this week has become a local tourist attraction in Chongqing , but the macabre interest has raised some...

4:49AM
16 Aug 2012

The fugitive who triggered one of the largest police manhunts in years would regularly exchange text messages and phone calls with his 20-year-old girlfriend about robberies he planned to stage....

4:23AM

Inevitably, the London Olympics, in particular the opening and closing ceremonies, are being compared to the Games staged in Beijing four years ago, when China dazzled the world.

2:04AM

Sections of nearly all national expressways in Gansu province have suffered dangerous subsidence following two months of heavy rain, forcing the government to spend billions of yuan on urgent...

7:50PM

The reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspected serial killer totalled 5.4 million yuan (HK$6.61 million), as the manhunt for one of the country's most-wanted fugitives enters its...

4:15AM

German pianist Stefan Aaron plays his orange piano yesterday on the Great Wall in Beijing. Before his performance in China, Aaron played his piano at 4,206 metres on the peak of the Alphubel...

9:04AM

With the number of migrant workers rising and their financial and welfare situation poor, policymakers must address the problem to maintain social stability, experts warned after a new report on...

11:08PM

I learnt a valuable lesson about national and moral education yesterday: empty your e-mail inbox before you criticise the China model.

In yesterday's paper I imagined what a suitably...

9:13PM

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