Last year’s State Science and Technology Awards honoring the contributions of 295 research projects and seven foreign experts were given during a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday, Jan. 8.
Some fourth-graders from one of East China’s Qingdao City elementary schools formed an “anti-sibling alliance” as a move to convince their parents not to have a second child.
A report by social media website LinkedIn found that women tend to shift jobs more frequently than their male peers, adding that women stay on a job for an average of 28 months, while the average time for men is 33 months.
Panda bins in Shanghai are being fitted with sensors that will alert collection agencies when they are almost full. Panda bins are used to collect used clothes.
Wuzhen will hold its first International Contemporary Art Exhibition from March 27 to June 26. It will be curated by Feng Boyi and will feature artists from different parts of the world.
Jazz is becoming increasingly popular in China. Two jazz musicians, Liu Yan and Luo Ning, express their optimistic outlook of the genre's future.
A Chinese magazine publisher is helping the country’s contemporary literature reach a more diverse range of readers, according to a report by Mei Jia from China Daily.
Sweden’s Nordic Ways Company staff behind Vassaloppet China Ski Festival 2016 said that the event will be the world’s best.
Two young women scholars will receive research grant and allowance from China as part of the Thousand Talents Plan. The scheme aims to lure overseas top talents to make breakthroughs for the country.
The 2016 edition of the annually held National Pacesetter Awards will veer away from the traditional top-down selection process. According to the organizers, they want for the award to be more inclusive and more far-reaching to other women.
A new trend is emerging. Well-designed cultural calendars, which were hot sellers toward the end of 2015, are being posted on social media, reported China Daily.
One of the new laws in Oregon that will be executed in 2016 is the change birth control pills distribution and prescription. Pharmacists are now allowed to prescribe such pills to women for as long as they are qualified after they are done filling out a health questionnaire.
Study reveals that consumption of high amounts of sugar in Western diet may increase the chance of getting breast cancer that can progress to metastasis of the lungs.
Boston Globe reporters and editors worked until dawn on January 3, Sunday to deliver thousands of copies of the newspaper to customers. The move followed a week of major distribution issues, while the Massachusetts paper reported that the move showed that it was working hard to solve the delivery problems.
