- Sat
- Aug 2, 2014
- Updated: 9:34am
Angry
residents of Kaohsiung accused the Taiwanese authorities of acting too
slowly to prevent a series of gas explosions that killed and injured
more than 300.
2 Aug 2014 - 4:07am
Minutes
after firefighter Wang Chung said goodbye to his wife and two daughters
over the phone on Thursday night, he received reports of white foam
erupting from drains with a strong smell of gas...
2 Aug 2014 - 7:48am
China
has acknowledged the existence of a new intercontinental ballistic
missile said to be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads as far
as the United States, state-run media reported...
2 Aug 2014 - 3:46am
Education
authorities may drop the requirement that pupils love the Communist
Party. The suggestion is contained in reforms the Ministry of Education
proposed to national guidelines for pupils,...
2 Aug 2014 - 4:29am
Burger
King Worldwide said on Thursday it would no longer buy products from
OSI Group suppliers in China, where the fast-food hamburger chain has
about 200 restaurants.
1 Aug 2014 - 4:18pm
China had great faith in the Red Flag Software Company, one of the nation's largest developers of computer operating systems.
2 Aug 2014 - 4:41am
While
the government has poured energy and money into developing its science
institute, some professors of philosophy and social sciences feel they
are under fire.
2 Aug 2014 - 4:44am
1 Aug 2014 - 3:31pm
Today's Poll
- 80
- 20
Total number of votes recorded: 448
China
today will lift air traffic control measures imposed to allow military
drills and that have caused major delays and cancellations of flights,
raising concerns over airline earnings.
1 Aug 2014 - 7:12pm
At
least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several
underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan’s second-largest city
overnight, hurling concrete, parked scooters, even injured...
1 Aug 2014 - 5:23pm
Shanghai officials are jittery after a high-profile disciplinary inspection team from Beijing moved into the city on Wednesday.
1 Aug 2014 - 6:28pm
A
high-profile pro-Beijing imam in Xinjiang has been assassinated by
three men who were "influenced by radical religious beliefs", police
say.
1 Aug 2014 - 7:16pm
The
army has restated its allegiance to President Xi Jinping following the
announcement of a corruption probe against former security tsar Zhou
Yongkang.
1 Aug 2014 - 7:50am
President
Xi Jinping has pledged to strike hard against graft in the military,
urging soldiers to banish corrupt practices and ensure their loyalty to
the ruling Communist Party, state media...
1 Aug 2014 - 2:39pm
An
environmental lawyer and an investigative journalist whose work led to
the sacking of corrupt officials are among this year's winners of the
Ramon Magsaysay Awards, often regarded as Asia's...
1 Aug 2014 - 7:21pm
Last
month alone, six officials committed suicide, according to media
reports. Two, from Henan and Hubei respectively, left letters saying
they were depressed; one was reported to have accepted...
1 Aug 2014 - 3:58am
The
owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut restaurant chains said on Thursday that a
food safety scandal in China has hurt sales and might be severe enough
to cut into the company’s global profit.
31 Jul 2014 - 5:28pm
Taiwan’s
government said on Thursday it would seal off a nuclear power plant due
to open next year but repeatedly attacked as unsafe by the public,
pending a referendum on its future.
31 Jul 2014 - 5:24pm
In
his takedown of former security chief Zhou Yongkang, Chinese President
Xi Jinping has bagged the most fearsome beast in his campaign against
corrupt officials, both “tigers” and petty “flies”...
31 Jul 2014 - 11:51am
The
authorities in the northeastern Jilin province are planning to ban
kindergartens from giving pupils medicine without their parents’
permission.
The draft law was reviewed at a...
The draft law was reviewed at a...
31 Jul 2014 - 5:32pm
A
Beijing court began hearing a landmark case on “gay conversion”
treatment on Thursday, as an activist in a nurse’s uniform knelt over a
patient, wielding a giant needle, outside.
31 Jul 2014 - 4:31pm
Members
of foreign press were finally permitted to attend the ministry’s
monthly news briefing on Thursday - a small milestone in increasingly
confident military’s efforts to project transparent...
31 Jul 2014 - 4:55pm
The
central government is launching a campaign to stamp out “little
coffers”, a reference to illicit accounts of officials with money
siphoned from public funds.
31 Jul 2014 - 5:09pm
Xi,
who greatly admires Deng, wanted to become a leader in a similar vein,
who could lead China into a new era of reform and growth, said sources
including senior officials and "princelings".
31 Jul 2014 - 3:52pm
Corporate
sleuth Peter Humphrey believes he worked for the public good by helping
victims of crime, according to a letter seen by the Post that he wrote
to his son Harvey from prison.
31 Jul 2014 - 10:38am
The
decades-old distinction between urban and rural dwellers in the
mainland's widely hated hukou, or household registration system, is to
end.
31 Jul 2014 - 9:32am
By
going after retired senior officials, President Xi Jinping has broken
the Communist Party's unwritten tradition of not prosecuting a top
leader once he has stepped down from power.
31 Jul 2014 - 11:40am
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