NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California unveiled its mystery to the public, but only for two days beginning Saturday as an Open House to show JPL's past, present and future. Th

As International Museum Day celebrations take place across the world today, China is enjoying a surge of new museum openings, winning widespread applause for boosting people's cultural life, but als

Six months after the outbreak of a severe economic crisis in Greece that sent shockwave across the world, with the helping hand of the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), th

The Internet, an important channel for ordinary Chinese to vent their dissatisfaction and expose injustices, has also become a source of defamation and libel. Regulators are pondering adopting a real

Every year, hundreds of thousands of petitioners make their way to Beijing and elsewhere to appeal to the higher authorities. Their goals are numerous, from redress for local government abuses to the

I was shopping at my local grocery store the other day, looking for fruit juice. This was at one of the major local chain stores, with literally hundreds of locations. I went to the drink section and

Zhao Zuohai, a 57-year-old farmer from Henan Province, was released on May 9 after being wrongly jailed for 11 years for a murder that didn't even happen. Two police officers who tortured a confession

A recent survey showed that children from 7 to 14 read no more than three books outside the school each semester on average. Few books interest them. Either there is too much homework or books are too

China has almost completely lost its pricing power in international trade, as the prices of key commodities, including iron ore, oil, copper and food, have soared this year amid mounting imports by th

Thailand's red-shirt protesters defied a government deadline for leaving the demonstration zone in downtown Bangkok by Monday afternoon, but Thai authorities extended their ultimatum for people moving