Hundreds of thugs storm Lanzhou building site, beat up 70 workers
Nearly 400 thugs wielding steel bars, 300 in security uniforms, stormed a construction site in the northwestern city of Lanzhou on Monday morning, beating up workers and injuring at least 70.
Mayor shocked by size of sex trade
He was surprised that his city’s sex trade industry was as big as it was reported, the mayor of Dongguan told national television on Wednesday.
China revokes blackmail newspaper license
Chinese authority has revoked the license of a newspaper for its involvement in blackmail.
Pricey plates
The staff of a secondhand vehicle market handle secondhand license plate transactions Wednesday. The price of a used plate has grown to more than 100,000 yuan ($16,110). The local government will increase the number of car plates by 800 to 8,200 this month to cope with the demand. Photo: Yang Hui/GT
Woman gets 1 year in jail for attacking police officer
A woman has been sentenced to one year in prison in Putuo district for assaulting a police officer while she and her friends smashed up a hospital emergency room in a drunken fit, the local court said Wednesday.
48% of Chinese companies offer health risk appraisals
About 48 percent of 80 surveyed Chinese corporate employers have offered a health risk appraisal (HRA) to their employees, and another 22 percent plan to offer an HRA next year, according to findings released Wednesday during the second Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit in Shanghai.
Prostitution purveyors appeal
Three men convicted of organizing prostitution argued in municipal court Wednesday that a 10-year-prison sentence was too harsh of a punishment for running a website that helped users hire prostitutes.
Trophy trip
FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) honorary ambassador Christian Karembeu poses for fans beside the FIFA World Cup Trophy Wednesday at the LIFE HUB @ DANING in Zhabei district. The worldwide 2014 FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour started in Brazil on September 12 and will cover 90 countries and regions in nine months. Photo: Yang Hui/GT
Cops take in 3 teachers for questioning
Xuhui district police took three foreign teachers away from the unregistered kindergarten where they worked Wednesday.
China plans world's largest duty-free shop
South China's tourist island province of Hainan is to build the world's largest duty free shop (DFS), said provincial authorities Wednesday.