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A WOMAN who saved a seven-year-old boy from falling to the ground from five floors up last Sunday in Zhejiang Province said she never considered letting him go despite having to urinate urgently, a media report said. The woman surnamed He, 57, held the boy's arms for 40 minutes after the boy...

THE driver who ran over and crushed a two-year-old girl last year was given a reduced sentence of two years and six months in prison at a court in Foshan, Guangdong Province, yesterday as he agreed to compensation and was forgiven by the girl's family. The driver, surnamed Hu, was initially...

A FIVEFOLD increase in subsidies for sea burials will take effect in 2013 to encourage people to forgo the traditional but space-consuming interment in the ground, local civil affairs authorities said yesterday. The subsidy has been increased from 400 yuan (US$64) to 2,000 yuan. The relatives...

A LARGE, 33.5-ton aquarium burst late yesterday in a busy shopping center on the pedestrian mall on Nanjing Road E., injuring 15 people, including customers and shop staff. One male customer, in his 30s, was hit by falling glass and had broken bones in his leg. Others had cuts and bruises...

SHANGHAI traffic authorities said yesterday they have seized 474 cloned taxis so far this year. Cloned taxis are those that look exactly the same in model and color as the licensed ones and they cheat customers without leaving any trace for punishment, the officials said. The Shanghai...

A kindergarten in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province was probed after an online post revealed that parents were charged 80 yuan (US$12.82) a month for teachers to hug their child, today's Yangtze Evening Post reported. A blogger known as "Langmanhongchen" said his friend's daughter was attending the...

AS winter sets in, cheap electric hand warmers have been selling well at street markets and on e-commerce platforms although many may be unsafe as they often fail to meet national standards, business insiders have warned. The warmers use electricity to heat up a liquid inside. Street...

A SURVEY on what Chinese men and women worry about these days has revealed a gender divide with male respondents reportedly worrying about not having enough money while females saying they fret about aging. Twenty million Internet users responded to the survey on the Chinese search engine...

IN the latest twist to the ongoing controversy over Beijing's car plate scandal, it has emerged that it is the son of the capital's traffic management chief that embroiled his father in the wrongdoing. Media reports on Thursday accused Song Jianguo, the director of Beijing Traffic Management...

PAN Xueying, 73, said she regretted killing her husband after a fight about their house, and she said she was giving up any rights for the couple's common property in a hearing yesterday at the Xuhui District People's Court. The woman, who strangled her husband to death around midnight on...

A single mother bit off the penis of her 9-year-old son in a state of delirium on Sunday in Yibin, a city in southwestern Sichuan Province, local media reported. The boy is not in critical condition after hospital treatment but he would suffer lifetime disability, the doctors told the...

The police chief of Usu, a small city in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is being investigated for keeping twin sisters as his concubines after someone revealed it on the Internet early this week. The disciplinary department was alerted by the online post and has begun probing...

A SHANGHAI tenant who refused to move out of her rental apartment even after she was given detention of 15 days was sentenced to two years in prison by the Zhabei District People's Court yesterday. The middle-aged woman, surnamed Chen, had made many excuses for staying in the apartment on...

A 73-year-old Shanghai man fainted after taking a tonic that contained the same chemical synthesis as Viagra, officials from the PLA No. 411 Hospital said today. The patient said a saleswoman came to his neighborhood in Hongkou District one week ago to promote a tonic medicine made from...

The seven-day administrative detention of a villager in Yiliang county, Yunnan province, for "stopping Premier Wen Jiabao's car" has been revoked, local police said on Friday. In September, Liang Yonglan, 29, knelt and petitioned to Wen regarding local land acquisitions with other three...

BEIJING - China's first high-speed rail line in the country's freezing high-latitude regions is ready for service, the Ministry of Railways announced Saturday. The railway linking northeastern Chinese city of Harbin and port city of Dalian will start service on December 1, marking the world's...

LIAONING AIRCRAFT CARRIER - China has successfully conducted flight landing on its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, naval sources said. A new J-15 fighter jet was used as part of the landing exercise. After its delivery to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on September 25, the...

Interesting read on "historical solutions" to fiscal cliff. AS US President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans seek to resolve the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for next year, a mutually agreeable solution is lurking...

PUNISHING and preventing corruption is a "serious political battle" for both the Communist Party of China and the country, according a report released yesterday by the Party's discipline watchdog. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has vowed heavier supervision of all its Party...

Going to China and wanna drink? Best to buy your bottle from DFS in Singapore and bring it over. A LIQUOR company is disputing the findings of a testing company in Shanghai that its products contain excessive and toxic plasticizers which could impair male sexual function and even cause...