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Ex-official executed for raping 11 schoolgirls

By Li Qian | 2013-6-19

A FORMER top government official in Yongcheng City in Henan Province was executed yesterday for raping and sexually assaulting schoolgirls. Li Xi...

Food safety watchdog blacklists 13 people, 2 eateries

THE Shanghai Food and Drug Supervision Administration has blacklisted 13 individuals and two restaurants for violating China's Food Safety Law and the...

Points system widens education options to non-locals' children

Official in sex tape scandal challenges charges

Beckham meets fans in Shanghai

Live poultry sales to resume in Shanghai tomorrow

LIVE poultry will be allowed for sale in local markets starting tomorrow, almost ten weeks after the city imposed a ban to prevent the spread of the H...

Night adventure at botanical garden

THE Shanghai Botanical Garden is inviting children aged 6 and 12 and their parents to explore animal and plant life at night. When darkness falls,...

Girl from Jiangxi leaves hospital after eye surgery

THE 12-year-old girl who took a five-hour taxi ride all the way from Jiangxi Province to Shanghai to treat her wounded eye was discharged from the hos...

Metro riders to get refund for delay under new rules

Faster 4G network tested on some Shanghai buses

China issues ban on private adoption of abandoned infants

CHINA has announced a ban on individuals and groups privately adopting abandoned infants in a country where tens of thousands are abandoned each year ...

Official in sex tape scandal challenges charges

LEI Zhengfu, the first to fall under the spotlight for the sex tape scandal that brought down 21 senior officials in Chongqing in western China, denie...

Carbon trading scheme to cut emissions

CHINA officially launched its first trading scheme aimed at reducing emissions yesterday. The platform allowing businesses in the southern city of...

15 tried in largest online pyramid scam in China

Cave homes turn owners into tour entrepreneurs

TODAY IN HISTORY

China’s National University of Defense and Technology worked out the Galaxy-III supercomputer on thi...

JUNE

Boeing's new 787-10 heats up jet battle

BOEING launched a larger version of its flagship Dreamliner aircraft at the Paris Air Show yesterday, intensifying the battle with rival Airbus in the...

Stocks hit six-month low

SHANGHAI stocks slumped to a more than six-month low after the Chinese securities regulator said initial public offerings may resume at the end of Jul...

'Lessons for China from EU environmental mistakes'

CHINA can learn from the environmental mistakes made by European countries, claims Finland's representative in Shanghai. European countries hav...

Dalian US$1.6b forays into UK market

Laptop sales down 14%

Local government debt fears for banks

Slower rise in home prices in May

China, EU to hold talks on solar row

Denza eyes to be top quality green car

Projectors roll as film festival opens

2013-6-16

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Australia, S Korea, Iran reach World Cup

ASIAN giants Iran, South Korea and Australia reached the 2014 World Cup but Uzbekistan narrowly failed to book its place on a dramatic night of action...

Heat beats Spurs in OT, forcing Game 7

THE Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 after overtime yesterday to square the series at 3-3 and force the NBA Finals to a decisive Game 7. ...

Eriksson: Coaching in China my biggest challenge

IT certainly recalled memories from the "good old days" in Italy and England for Sven-Goran Eriksson, when he was surrounded by journalists and fans. ...

Tahiti's Tehau has Barcelona dreams after historic goal

Singapore Open hit by late pullouts

Karzai, US to talk peace with Taliban

AFGHANISTAN will send a team to Qatar for peace talks with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday, as the US-led NATO coalition launched t...

G-8 backs negotiations to end Syria's war

WORLD leaders including the US and Russia declared yesterday they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the Syrian civil war that wil...

Russia to limit gay couple adoptions

RUSSIAN lawmakers yesterday backed a bill which would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are legal, following ...

Shanghai invited to vie for world's tallest tower at 1.6 kilometers high

WHO links obesity to the marketing of unhealthy foods

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Happy childhoods elude both rich and poor

WEI Yufan stays busy during the week and spends her weekends and holidays at cramming schools, taking math, English, piano and taekwondo classes. ...

Baroque music the way it sounded to Vivaldi

THE Academy of Ancient Music, which uses period instruments and authentic reproductions, will stage a concert of Baroque music by the masters next Thu...