When twilight falls, Hu Qinghua's routine starts. After he finishes work in his rice fields he visits a family in Youdian village, speaking to them about the history of their house and narrating stories about their common ancestors, hoping to persuade them to repair their house, which was built hundreds of years ago.
The UN Security Council on Monday condemned the killing of a UN peacekeeper from Morocco in the Central African Republic (CAR), calling on the CAR government to "investigate this attack and hold the perpetrators to account."
Yu Xiao, a junior student at Zhengzhou University in central China's Henan Province, usually winds down after classes by browsing the makeup tutorials of her favorite beauty bloggers on the Sina Weibo social network.
People here said they had known that a network of fault lines ran under their town like veins. But no major earthquake had struck in anyone’s lifetime. Even in Japan, the most seismically unstable country in the world, that fact had apparently created a false sense of security.
Locked in a cramped, dim cell, Brett Soznik, along with Annette Brown and several other team members, was trying to bypass the green laser grid that separated them from an iron gate, a potential exit.
Classical Chinese poetry has become the latest addition to the armory of frontline authorities in their war on corruption.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday called for deepening reforms in the country's education sector in order to better cultivate innovative minds.
Since the reality show "Dad! Where Are We Going?" hit Chinese TV screens in 2013, more programs featuring the offspring of celebrities have followed, catapulting these kids to fame overnight.
China's relatively slow economy has not cast a shadow on the employment prospects of college and university graduates, according to a new report from a leading recruitment company.
Daredevils explore the city from all angles - most of them illegal - taking selfies atop skyscrapers or videoing their tours of an abandoned mine, a sunken ship, a derelict cinema, or a murder site
Festival of Chinese opera features several works devoted to the Monkey King; Shaolin Fez are crowdfunding a charity album in aid of children in Syria; the Fiddlesticks will take kids on a musical journey
A gay couple's attempt to seek their claimed right to marriage, despite same-sex marriage being illegal, was rejected Wednesday by a court in central China's Hunan Province.
Syrian university students participated in Wednesday's parliamentary elections, hoping the candidates would secure job opportunities for them.
China's civil servants must take exams and be evaluated on their legal knowledge, and abide by the law when exercising power, according to an official document issued on Thursday.
A total of 13.4 million Chinese visited 150 major cemeteries to honor their deceased relatives during the three-day Tomb-Sweeping holiday that ended Monday, the authority said.
The majority of Australian women are taking their husband's surnames at marriage, despite constant debate about whether or not the tradition is sexist, researchers from Adelaide's Flinders University said on Thursday.
Chen Qi, an undertaker from northeast China's Dalian, set sail on Saturday for another sea burial.
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