Taiwan drink ban hits mainland restaurants
2011-06-03 07:05:29
The Chinese mainland has banned its restaurants from selling or using beverages, food products and food additives from 10 producers in Taiwan that are suspected to have been tainted with a cancer-causing plastic additive.
Factory owner detained amid additive scare
2011-06-03 06:50:58
Police in south China have detained the owner of a food processing factory suspected of mixing an industrial chemical used to soften plastic with food additives. Taiwan drink ban hits mainland restaurants
Possible food poisoning sickens 27 students
2011-06-02 22:53:58
Twenty-seven students in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province were sickened Wednesday in a suspected case of food poisoning, authorities said Thursday.
Huawei tops China's renewed IT industry list
2011-06-02 21:31:52
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Thursday issued a top-100 list of Chinese electronics and information technology companies, with Huawei, a telecom solutions provider, continuing to stay at the first place.
C China's 'kingdom of lakes' left out to dry
2011-06-02 21:16:15
A lingering dry spell has left central China's Hubei province, renowned as China's "kingdom of lakes," with the lowest water surface area ever recorded in the region.
Students gear up for college entrance exams
2011-06-02 21:03:56
China's upcoming annual college entrance exams, which will be taken by students across the country from June 7 to 9, have got the nation's pupils in a frenzy as they prepare to take the difficult tests.
Beijing International Tourism Expo 2011
2011-06-02 19:18:19
The Beijing International Tourism Expo will kick off on June 17. It will be hosted at Beijing National Convention center until June 19, with the first day held exclusively for industrial insiders and the other two for the public.
China to expand training for captive-bred pandas
2011-06-02 17:21:30
Panda researchers at Wolong base in Southwest China's Sichuan province are planning to release six more pregnant bears into a semi-wild environment this year hoping to help more captive-bred pandas return to the wilderness.
2 dead, 18 still missing in flooded coal mines
2011-06-02 16:20:42
Two miners have been confirmed dead and 18 more remained missing in two flooded coal mines in Southwest China, local authorities said.
Chengdu 'respectable' in protecting intangible cultural heritage
2011-06-02 15:49:43
The 3rd China Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum is an important platform for exchanging information on recent achievements concerning intangible cultural heritage protection.
Beijing has 'big room' undergroud to develop
2011-06-02 14:27:33
There is big room for Beijing to develop underground shopping center and the underground street will bring great business opportunities, said Shigetaka Sato, chairman of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) in an interview with Xinhua correspondent on Thursday.
Furnace blast kills 2 in Xinjiang, 2 missing
2011-06-02 14:18:15
Four people have been confirmed dead and two remained missing in a factory explosion Wednesday evening in Urumqi, the capital city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said Thursday.