China should exact a heavy price from North Korea if it carries out a planned nuclear test, state-run media said yesterday in an unusually strongly worded call for action by Pyongyang's closest...
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The state media handle few issues with more sensitivity than a high-profile criminal case with political implications for some of the nation's top leaders.
'Respect for the old and care for the young are traditional virtues of the Chinese people'.
Respect for the old and care for the young are traditional virtues of the Chinese people'. For centuries, mainlanders have been brought up with that tenet instilled in their minds, through...
These days, the mainland's toiling entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises are a wretched lot.
Over and over since the high-speed rail crash at Wenzhou , the central government has stressed that it is committed to transparency. Premier Wen Jiabao has made the pledge and so, too, has the...
We intended to welcome signs of increasing tolerance by mainland authorities. That was before Beijing police forced organisers of the mainland's first gay pageant to cancel it, just an hour...
Safe sex on the mainland can make you sick, kill you or get your girlfriend pregnant. That's because up to a third of the prophylactics may be fake in some areas.
A lucky punter in Henan province has won the mainland's biggest lottery payout yet with a jackpot of almost 360 million yuan (HK$409 million).
The former justice bureau chief who fell in the Chongqing organised-crime investigation apparently had his own version of Fort Knox.
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Nine months.
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It was a chance pretty much unprecedented in my lifetime to be able to have a front row seat...
Mainland journalists have cautiously welcomed a revision to the draft law on emergency management which has dropped a controversial clause prohibiting unauthorised media reports on emergencies.
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