A suspected serial killer charged with multiple counts of homicide, rape, robbery and mutilating corpses will stand trial in Baiyin, Gansu province, on Tuesday.
A former mayor in Hunan province who made headlines for drug use has been sentenced to seven years in prison on corruption charges.
Police investigators say that Guo Wengui - one of China's most-wanted fugitives and the controlling shareholder of Beijing Pangu Investment and Beijing Zenith Holdings - knowingly used fabricated and distorted information to mislead the public.
Sun Xiaofang, a 25-year-old pregnant math teacher at a school in Beijing, remembers one particular middle school biology class clearly.
China's top environmental authority is flexing its muscles to take on polluting companies through more inspections and law enforcement. Fines levied on violators have soared in the past six months.
President Xi Jinping has urged efforts to unswervingly advance reform of the country's judicial system as it is crucial to the country's rule of law and the entire governance system.
Monetary policies are expected to become relatively tight in the second half of the year, as fending off financial risks has become a greater challenge than stabilizing growth, say economists and analysts.
The People's Liberation Army officially established its Djibouti Logistics Support Base on July 11, according to a news release from the PLA Navy.
The central government's State-owned enterprises posted better-than-expected net profits of 535.32 billion yuan ($78.8 billion; 68.8 billion euros; £61.4 billion) in the first half of the year, thanks to supply-side reform, innovation and curbs on capital outflow, the country's top SOE regulator said on July 11.
Twenty-seven cases of human H7N9 have been reported to authorities in Beijing so far this year, the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control said on July 11.