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Long distance to the water supply station poses big challenges to the elderly in long-term drought affected areas.
Huayi Brothers Media Corp has announced a hefty dividend plan after its net profit grew by 24.22 percent year-on-year to 84.55 million yuan and revenue rose by 47.59 percent to 604.14 million yuan, the company said in its annual report Thursday.
A staggering 77.5 percent of people would love to have two kids if permitted,a survey organized by China Youth Daily and sina.com, one of the biggest news portals in China last week shows.
China's insurance regulator on Wednesday set a 10 percent and 30 percent ceiling for the country's insurance groups and their subsidiaries' investment into non-financial sectors and non-insurance financial industries respectively, a move to prevent cross-sector risk transfer.
A China Eastern Airlines passenger plane landed safely in Zhengzhou airport late Tuesday after experiencing a false fire alarm, China's portal website sina.com reported Wednesday.
Senior executives of Bank of China (BOC), the country's third-largest lender by market value, saw hefty cuts in their salaries in 2009 despite a profitable year, thanks to the government's effort to narrow the wealth gap.
Former Chinese basketball player Li Shasha has changed her nationaltiy to Japan and will make her debut for Japan under her new name Risa Kawamura in the Basketball World Championship for Women to be held in Czechoslovakia this September.
A group of lawyers handed over materials of more than 460 Hewlett-Packard (HP) laptop users to the country's top quality watchdog Tuesday afternoon, bringing the total number of complaints filed against HP laptops up to 520.
“With the decline of China’s population base and the descendant tendency of suitable higher education-age population, some private-run universities will face fierce competition on recruitment and are likely to shut down in the next 10 years,” said Gu Hailiang, president of Wuhan University and NPC representative, according to sina.com.
The home furnishings chain retailer Redstar Macalline has donated 10 million yuan to the newly established special fund "Harmonious Home" to promote the development of resisting violence in the family and building a harmonious society, it was revealed at a press conference held by the China Foundation for Human Rights Development, according to china.com.cn.