China

· HK population passes 7 mln
· 2 officers walk free in torture killing
· Fake flower leads to beating death
· Largest fossilized dinosaur moves to Beijing
· China to regulate use of simplified characters
· Drunk drivers to face job scrutiny
· Property managers use butter to fight burglars
· Olympic champions light the passion at National Fitness Carnival
· Food poisoning, A/H1N1 ruled out in school illness
· Coal mines to merge in new plan
· 3,400 women, children rescued in human trafficking cases
· 9 medical companies exposed for illegal ads
· French woman dies in scientific expedition in China
· Hundreds may be trapped by Morakot in Taiwan village
· Penalties ordered for dirty texting
· Landslide buries unknown number of people in E China
· 2 killed in earthquake in SW China
· 'Chubby' kids struggle to lose weight
· 300 children suffer lead poisoning in Shaanxi
· Construction starts on 10 mln-kw wind power station
· Crackdown on copyright infringement, pornography publication
· China launches 60th anniversary safety push
· Urumqi sets deadline for riot damage claims
· Push to reduce smoking via tax goes up in smoke
· 13 detained over teenager's death in Internet addict clinic
· Fugitive Lai missing home, may come back
· Farmers sue government over seized farmland
· Police crack down harder on fake money
· US citizen found dead in south China city
· 156 of Urumqi riot deaths are innocent
· Plague outbreak linked to dead dog
· Villagers want new leader to recoup money
· 83 Urumqi riot suspects arrested
· Couples unwilling to have 2nd child
· Prominent university president accused of plagiarism
· 718 Urumqi riot suspects detained
· Building collapse kills 17 in N. China
· Female TV reporter sentenced to jail over bribery
· Pneumonic plague kills 3rd man in Qinghai
· DPP debates its mainland policy
· Building collapse kills 3, buries more than a dozen
· Teenager dies in Internet rehab
· Police prevent terrorist attacks in Xinjiang
· 5 years on, China's 'Green Card' still in demand
· Bilingual education key for development
· Plant boss held over sudden deaths
· 6 dead, 2 injured in central China murder
· Chinese PLA targets on defense might in multidimensional battlefields
· Pollution cuts off water supply for 580,000 people
· China to start national investigation on R&D resources
· New airport opens on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
· Survey shows more teens have sexual experience
· Chinese Internet users advise gov't through 'chitchat'
· China firmly pursues peaceful development: defense minister
· Top court approves counterfeiters' death penalties
· PLA adds anti-terror ops to cache
· Trials for riot suspects set for August
· Gansu pupil invigilators catch 25 cheats
· Heaviest rain in 70 years floods 3,000 Shanghai households
· Subsidized rural home appliance sales to 28 bln yuan