Ticket purchase more convenient under real-name system
Passengers wait to depart aboard the train coded L7688 at Guangzhou Railway Station in the capital city of south China’s Guangdong Province Jan.
240,000 people lack drinking water as drought hits S China
A prolonged drought has left 240,000 people and 110,000 head of livestock without adequate drinking water in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said Saturday.
China funds 50M yuan to fight severe drought
China has earmarked 50 million yuan ($7.35 million) of emergency fund to help South China fight the worst drought in 50 years, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.
Family question worker’s ’sudden death’ at Foxconn
Family members questioned what Foxconn Technology Group believed a sudden death of an employee at a plant in south China.
Two detained for scalping real-name train tickets
Railway police from south China’s Guangdong Province have detained two people for scalping real-name train tickets, the first such arrests since the launch of a scheme to sell tickets based on proven IDs, Yao Mai, director of Guangzhou Railway Police s…
Guangxi achieves fastest export growth due to FTA plan
Despite the impact of the global economic crisis, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region achieved rapid economic development in 2009 thanks to the region’s enormous efforts to develop the free trade area (FTA) with its Southeast Asian neighbors…
Three dead in central China fireworks plant explosion
Smoke is seen at the Changjin Firecrackers Plant in Taolin Town of Linxiang City, central-south China’s Hunan Province, Jan.
Foxconn worker killed; reward offered for info
Foxconn Technology Group, a unit of Taiwan electronics giant Hon Hai, is offering a 500,000-yuan ($73,219) reward for information on the sudden death of a worker at a plant in south China on Saturday.
Hospital probed after new mothers’ bacterial infection
A hospital in south China’s Guangdong Province is under investigation over the bacterial infection of 18 women who had Caesarean sections there last year.
Nanning to ban presale of houses in the air
South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region plans to pilot banning the sale of uncompleted commercial residential buildings in the capital city Nanning this year to “regulate the order of real estate market”, local officials said Sunday.