Members of the National People's Congress Standing Committee want the law pertaining to human trafficking be amended to impose tougher punishments. Thousands of netizens, on the other hand, want human traffickers to receive death penalty and life sentence for buyers.
Super typhoon Chan-Hom is expected to land on Zhejiang. This forecast has prompted officials to evacuate 865,000 of its residents.
A new study shows that pandas can survive on just eating bamboo due to their extremely low metabolism and low activity.
The migrant population of China could reach the 310-million mark, experts claim. However, they pointed out that the growth rate will be slower than before.
Johnny Depp's "Pirates of the Caribbean" co-star Michael Enright abandoned his comfort zone as an actor in Los Angeles and went to Syria to join Kurdish fighting force against the militant group ISIS.
New images of Pluto and its moon Charon were taken by NASA's New Horizons probe last week showing sharpest details yet of the geological features of the binary system.
Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström got some relief from a Belgian court. The four key members of TPB were acquitted by the court in connection with criminal copyright infringement case. Meanwhile, the Pirate Bay debt is mounting, however not a single dollar has been paid to Hollywood.
A local tourist who didn’t reveal identity returned the stones he/she took from a beach in Sanxiantai after 10 years of keeping them. The person apologized through a letter and gave NT$600 to the East Coast National Scenic Area Headquarters.
China is set to produce silicon carbide (SIC) wafers, as SICC Materials, a company based in Shandong, announced on July 6 that they have successfully found a way to mass-produce SIC wafers, claiming an annual production that could reach 400,000 to 500,000 wafers, the Guancha Syndicate reported.
China is developing new ultrafast and advanced helicopters and is set to produce prototypes of the aircraft within the next decade, according to the country’s chief helicopter designer, the China Daily reported.
The countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) pledged to form a stronger economic partnership by adopting plans for further cooperation as they concluded an annual summit in the Russian city of Ufa.
Xu Mingxing, founder of OKCoin, one of China's largest bitcoin exchange platforms, said that the virtual currency, bitcoins, could be the savior of the Greek debt crisis.
A United Nations officer's statement over China's newly approved security law was firmly rejected and met with dissatisfaction by Chinese government officials. The statement was issued by the international organization on Thursday, July 9.
The local court of Beijing's Mentougou District has made a move to solve the increasing divorce statistics in the country and the danger it poses to the behavior of the involved children. The court urges the divorcees to put the interests of their minors first.
NASA has announced the four veteran astronauts who will ride the first commercial space crew vehicles to the ISS and Mars where the first test flight will be in 2017.
