Migrant workers still avoid contracts
Less than half of all migrant workers across China signed contracts with their employers last year, and analysts say the situation is likely to continue.
Officials told to give up their VIP cards
China's top anti-graft official Wang Qishan on Monday urged disciplinary and supervisory staff to return all membership cards gifted by others.
Shanghai expats try to provide critical help in city's blood drive
Zachary Ludington -along with more than 150 other expatriates in Shanghai - came to the city's blood donation event on Sunday.
Parents of teen vandal apologize after online rage
The parents of a teen vandal have apologized to the public for the graffiti their son scratched on a stone sculpture in an ancient temple in Egypt.
Taxi fare increase finds support at hearing
Most participants at a public hearing supported the Beijing government's decision to increase taxi fares.
Draft takes aim at terrorism
New rules forbid raising money for subversive people and groups
Capital offers electric cars
All 15 electric cars in a pioneering rental project have been booked within three days of its Beijing launch, organizers said.
Netizens question young official's 'rocket promotion'
A Party official in East China's Jiangsu province has denied nepotism played a part in the promotion of a senior official's daughter to a top post.
Thirteen arrested for mall rumors
"Their behavior led to serious social consequences," a statement by the police said on Wednesday.
Voyage to Mars has its skeptics
Mars One has been promoted as a manned mission to establish a human colony on the red planet.
Cooperation boosts war on drugs along Mekong
China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand launch action against traffickers
Tainted rice scandal hits Guangzhou eateries
"All the packages of tainted rice and rice noodles have now been sealed shut," said the statement that was published on Sunday.
Deaths prompt concerns over elevator safety
Safety experts have warned of more elevator and escalator accidents if problems in the industry are not solved.
Shuttlecocks to cost more due to H7N9
The price of shuttlecocks will rise incoming months as the supply of duck feathers needed to make them dwindles because of the H7N9 bird flu outbreak.
Fake-condom factory busted in Fujian
An underground workshop producing fake brand-name condoms was busted after police found clues on an online marketplace.