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Source: Global Times-Agencies Published: May 20, 2013 00:23
A man who allegedly made false bomb threats that affected flights in five Chinese cities was caught Friday afternoon in Yancheng, East China’s Jiangsu Province, local police said on Saturday.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:23
An official who decided to switch off the power supply to traffic lights in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, causing traffic chaos in the city, has been suspended from his post and will face further punishment.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:23
A Taiwan investigation team that was sent to Manila to probe the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coast guard returned to Taipei on Saturday, slamming the Philippines’ attitude toward the joint investigation “capricious.”
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:23
The Palace Museum has for the first time ruled that both employees and visitors will be punished for smoking onsite from Saturday, an official with the museum told the Global Times.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:18
The Communist Party of China (CPC) needs to spruce up its membership resignation system so as to let go unqualified and corrupt members, suggests an article published on Saturday by the People’s Tribune, an academic magazine under the People’s Daily.
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Source: Global Times-Agencies Published: May 20, 2013 00:03
A China, World Health Organization (WHO) report said the most severe H7N9 bird flu cases occurred in elderly male patients living in urban areas.
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Source: Global Times-Agencies Published: May 20, 2013 00:03
The mother of an underage rape victim in Yongzhou, Hunan Province, said Sunday that the Hunan Provincial Higher People’s Court has accepted her appeal demanding compensation and a written apology from the Yongzhou labor re-education committee.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:03
The public have questioned contradictory figures released for Lushan earthquake donations by the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:03
Some of the ramshackle streets of Jieshi town, a coastal area administered by the city of Lufeng, Guangdong Province, are no longer paved with just stone or asphalt, instead, they are coated with ragged, discarded clothes.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:03
The food and drug authority in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Saturday night named rice producers whose products were found to be tainted with excessive amounts of cadmium, according to its website.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 00:03
Visitors wait in line near the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai on Sunday, marking China Tourism Day. Fifty-one attractions in the city offered half-price admission to visitors. The tower had received 13,000 visitors by Sunday afternoon. Photo: Cai Xianmin/GT
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Source: Global Times Published: May 19, 2013 23:38
Consumer complaints about online shopping or related services have grown 20-fold over the past six years to account for nearly 40 percent of the 112,000 complaints the city’s consumer hotline received last year, the Shanghai Evening Post reported Sunday.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 19, 2013 23:38
Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court has sentenced a businessman to life in prison for swindling investors and a bank out of 379 million yuan ($62 million), local media reported Saturday.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 19, 2013 23:38
An 18-year-old man and his 23-year-old friend have been each sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for pimping out their underage teenage girlfriends and robbing their clients, local media reported.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 19, 2013 23:38
A child learns how to give first aid to a medical dummy at the Shanghai Science and Technology Festival in a park of Pudong New Area. Medical staff gave visitors lessons in emergency medical treatment, including how to bandage wounds.
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