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About 10,000 trucks were backed up for miles on a northern China highway on Friday, the latest in a series of monster jams that have plagued the overloaded road since maintenance work began on a parallel route earlier this summer.

As Guangzhou heads into the last 100 days before the opening of the Asian Para Games, authorities pledged on Friday to build a barrier-free environment for disabled participants and local disabled people.

Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC), one of the country's policy lenders, said Friday it had issued loans of 909 billion yuan (133.63 billion U.S. dollars) to China's western regions since 2000.

The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday climbed to 16, and 32 people are still missing, officials at the rescue headquarters said Friday.

Authorities in northwest China's Gansu Province confirmed 83 children had been sickened at a local kindergarten.

The governments of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) and neighboring Guangdong province will launch a Chinese medicine industrial park on the Hengqin Island.

A truck and a coach collided at the entrance of an expressway in northeast China's Jilin Province Friday, triggering a fire and leaving an unknown number of casualties, local authorities said.

Top Chinese leaders paid homage to the Chinese soldiers that died fighting Japanese aggression during the second World War Friday, the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to China.

A report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) shows that 4.2 million of China's 420 million netizens are less than 10 years old, double the 2008 figure.

Eight social media websites will begin a trial of self-censorship according to guidelines established by the Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM).

Heading a 50-member delegation from the Chinese mainland, Minister of Culture Cai Wu embarked on a week-long visit to Taiwan Thursday, marking the highest-level visit to the island in 12 years.

A Chinese lingerie company is facing a backlash from England for a new ad campaign featuring a half-naked Diana doppelganger for one of its underwear brands that has the same name as the late Princess of Wales.

Remains of more than 3,000 Kuomintang soldiers sacrificed during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggressors were dug out recently at a building site in central Hubei Province.

Stargazers in China are in for a feast for their eyes as three major meteor showers will hit the earth one by one from end of this month.

Giraffes and hippos will travel through the main roads in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, next week and cars are told to make room for these zoo animals heading towards their new home.

The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province last month has risen to 33.

An increasing number of wealthy Chinese are flocking to the West for permanent residency, taking with them 15 billion yuan (US$2.2 billion).

Concerns over the working conditions of government officials and whether they have a clean record have been raised after it was revealed that a number of civil servants had committed suicide recently.

A cooking oil manufacturer admited that several batches of its oil contain a cancer-causing substance.
• Public not warned of tainted oil

The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday has climbed to 15, and 33 are still missing, the rescue headquarters said Friday.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Thursday it would urge industrial enterprises to produce high-quality products as part of the effort to enhance the image of "made in China."

China's Ministry of Civil Affairs has published the official Chinese names for places on the earth's moon, in a first that eliminates confusion and will help the nation's lunar exploration efforts.

A government official in southwest China, whose alleged graft diary was posted online, told a court Thursday that his behavior was a breach of discipline rather than the law.

More than 10 million farmers in Chongqing find themselves torn between prospects of a comfortable city life and a possibly homeless one.

Residents in an east China village have been forced to change their family name because the character is so rare it cannot be typed.

The death toll from the massive mudslide in Zhouqu County, in northwest China's Gansu Province, has risen to 1,471 as of Wednesday after four more bodies were retrieved, with 294 others still missing, rescue headquarters said Thursday.

Outside the consulting room of a maternity hospital in Nanjing, an expectant mother, surnamed Lin, was trying to persuade a doctor to perform a cesarean section on her.

Citizens who provide corruption tip-offs will receive a reward of up to 200,000 yuan (US$29,168) from Chongqing Municipal Government.

A local smoking-control law came into effect Wednesday in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province.

China has taken a new move to prevent wrongful convictions in death sentence cases and limit the number of death sentences by ensuring the appeals process for the condemned.

Thirty tons of melamine-tainted milk powder that were hidden during the 2008 scandal has resurfaced in a village in Shanxi Province, the Legal Weekly reported Wednesday.

The amount of unsafe foreign dairy products seized during importation is on the rise in recent months amid the unalleviated public concern over unsafe milk formula in the country.

Foreigners will be covered by a nationwide measles immunization campaign, which targets children mainly between 8 months and 4 years of age.

Plain clothes police officers arrested a Beijing writer who previously accused the local government in Weinan, Shaanxi Province of embezzling funds meant for residents who were forced to relocate because of the Sanmenxia reservoir project.

Police denied claims Wednesday that the arrest of a 23-year-old AIDS patient and activist was related to the man's ongoing campaign to call attention to the plight of people like him.

The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to eight, and 40 people are still missing, local government said Thursday.

Chinese experts and amateurs are still questioning the claim by China's archaeological authority that an ancient tomb belongs to Cao Cao, a cunning general and ruler some 1,800 years ago.

At least 17 people were injured Wednesday in a gas outburst at an office building in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Local health authorities Tuesday admitted waiting for five months before announcing that secret recalls had been ordered for camellia oil by Jinhao, a well-known edible oil maker based in central China's Hunan Province, after the oil had been found to have contained excessive carcinogens.

Girls in Southwest China's Yunnan Province will be given a US-published booklet that teaches chastity and offer tips on how to say no to boys asking for sex.