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China's legislature endorses climate change resolution |
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China's top legislature approved Thursday afternoon a resolution on climate change, ahead of an international conference in December in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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Climate change on the agenda of NPC |
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China's top legislature, for the first time in its history, is specifically addressing climate change with the review of a draft resolution, after hearing a report on the growing environmental problem Monday. |
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Top legislature reviews draft law on gov't powers |
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China's top legislature considered for the third time a draft law regulating government mandatory power on Monday, the first of its kind to prevent abuses of administrative power. |
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First armed police law set to pass |
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Armed police, a major force to maintain State security and social stability, are set to get legal backing to help them handle riots. The legislature is expected to pass the country's first law on armed police on Thursday to make that possible. |
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China started to focus on renewable energy law |
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China's top legislature started its bimonthly session Monday morning, with the focus on a draft amendment to the renewable energy law and the country's efforts in tackling climate change. |
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Smelter at center of lead poisoning scandal shut down |
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A smelting plant in its northwestern Shaanxi Province has been completely shut down amid public anger over heavy metal discharges that have made more than 600 children ill. |
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Lead poisoning persists in relocation site |
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About 1,000 people in Fengxiang county, Shaanxi Province, who are to be relocated due to lead poisoning that sickened 615 children, may face a new threat of lead contamination, villagers said yesterday. |
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Lead poisoning spurs relocation from smelting plant |
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Authorities in northwest China are working to relocate at least 1,000 people living near a smelting plant suspected of causing lead poisoning in more than 600 people. |
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Illegal brick kilns bring down officials |
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The illegal sprawl of brick kilns along the mudflats of China's second largest waterway, Yellow River, has stirred up an administrative whirlwind in a central China county, leading to the removal or discipline of 22 officials. |
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China to monitor endemic arsenic, fluoride poisoning |
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China will start to monitor the endemic poisoning of coal-burning arsenic and fluoride as environmentally-related illnesses continue to plague coal-rich central and western regions, the Ministry of Health said Monday. |
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Tap water proven drinkable after testing: official |
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The tap water supply fully resumed Sunday night in a city of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after the water was proven to be drinkable, nine days after it was cut off for sanitization, local officials said. |
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Tap water resumes two weeks after contamination |
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The tap water supply in Chifeng City, north China's Inner Mongolia, resumed Thursday, two weeks after contamination caused more than 4,300 people to fall ill, but the city's disease control authority has warned residents the water is still undrinkable. |
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2 police officers on trial in jail death |
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A first court hearing opened in Kunming Thursday into two police officers accused of dereliction of duty and abuse of inmates. |
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2 more officials sacked over tap water pollution |
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A further two public utility officials in Chifeng City, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, have been fired over a tap water-pollution incident that made more than 4,000 residents ill last week. |
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Premier Wen visits elderly scientists |
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Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday personally conveyed National Day greetings to elderly scientists who have made prominent contributions to atomic and medical research. |