Forty-eight-year-old Yuan Lihai is the owner of an unregistered orphanage that caught fire last Friday. She had been taking abandoned children into her home for 26 years. Most of the children suffered from congenital diseases, ranging from cleft lips...
The laojiao system allows police to detain people for up to four years without an open trial. Leading experts have argued this contradicts Chinese laws and China's Constitution. The system has made headlines in recent months, with several cases of pe...
This past year has seen a number of territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific region, involving China, Japan, South Korea and countries in Southeast Asia as well. As such, today's key words are territorial disputes. CRI's Robert Costelloe has more. Th...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes that President Assad's latest proposal won't help resolve the crisis in the country. Martin Nesirky is the U.N. spokesman. The Secretary-General was disappointed that the speech by President Bashar al-Assad o...
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party and its former main ally, the Northern League, have resumed their alliance. Berlusconi will not run for the top office again in the upcoming elections. He said it was still not clear whom the ce...
China's Health Minister Chen Zhu has set out a goal to reimburse 70 percent of the patients' medical costs by 2015. In order to achieve this goal, we need to limit the use of drugs and treatment methods that are not on the list of essential medicines...
A leading Chinese financial data provider says that IPOs on China's A-share market lost its momentum in 2012, with fewer newly listed companies and reduced fundraising. Some 150 Chinese firms raised a combined 93 billion yuan through IPOs in Shanghai...
The Chinese government will this year push through the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal work conference held in Beijing on Monday. The controversial system presently allows police to detain...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has put forward his own roadmap for a political solution to the country's 22-month old crisis. In his first televised speech since June last year, Assad appeared among hundreds of his loyalists at the Opera House in t...
A rebel delegation of Central African Republic is heading for the Gabonese capital Libreville for talks over the country's political crisis. The 12-member delegation is expected to arrive in Libreville to discuss the conflict with the government led...
China's civil authorities are to overhaul the non-government orphanages nationwide after a deadly fire in central China's Henan province. The month-long campaign is to inspect private orphanages after seven children were killed in a fire at an orphan...
A recent report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shows China's pension deficit reached some 77 billion yuan in 2011. It increased nearly 9 billion yuan from the previous year. About one-third of China's provinces and autonomous regions do no...
2012 can be called a year of political change. Many countries including the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea all held their general elections. As such, today's key words are general elections. CRI's Zheng Chenguang has more. And whether I...
A former housing official in central China's Henan Province has been detained after being found to own 29 properties. Zhai Haifeng, the former director of the local housing administration bureau in Zhengzhou city has been accused online of being enga...
Market demand for robots is growing in China as the country faces an increasing aging society and greater demand for skilled labor. Company managers say they are optimistic the robot business will grow by at least 10 percent next year. Gu Chunyuan, p...
