A 17-year-old student was doused with petrol and set on fire in her home in Hefei, Anhui province after she rejected the advances of a classmate. more ›

Shanghai Daily reports: "Three local officials are among the six men detained for having sex with two teenage girls in Lueyang County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to the police." more ›

A 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to 12 years jail for killing his mother and sister in Guangdong's Liannanzhaigang Town more ›

A high school student in Shangrao, Jiangxi province, recently jumped off the building to show a girl his love after he was rejected by her. more ›

Around 20 girls under the age of 18, including two under the age of 14, have had a prostitution ring of their own making uncovered in Shanghai's Zhabei district, after a customer who had his watch stolen reported the ring to local authorities. more ›

17-year-old Fu Guojun (符国俊) was with his cousin and another friend eating roadside barbecue opposite the KTV when a mob of 35 security guards armed with wooden clubs and iron rods attacked them. That's somewhat better than a ten-to-one ratio for security guards vs. unarmed kids. Unity is Strength, right guys? more ›

Look Hu's excited! After his visit to Chicago schools during his state visit to America in January, Hu Jintao invited 20 students from Walter Payton College Prep High School to visit his residence at Zhongnanhai in Beijing. more ›

"...[T]here just isn't any room for 'mad' teen behavior in Shanghai society. There's already a group of people who meet in groups on the streets and in parks to dance, sing, smoke and indulge in subcultures that no one else understands. I'm talking about the over-60s, who are Shanghai's equivalent of the teenager, except that walking backwards while clapping and humming is far more radical than taking Class C drugs in a car park." more ›

The two girls, aged 16 and 19, were found last Friday in a secret lair built by their captor under his home in Wuhan. According to the police, they would probably have starved to death if a nearby business owner had not found a piece of paper with their call for help, a map and the phone number of one of the girl's father scrawled on it. The note was hidden in the rubbish of the instant noodles that the girls were fed by their 39 year old abductor. Not quite as shocking as the massive Shanxi slavery scandal in 2007 perhaps, but still an eerie reminder. more ›

According to China Daily, more and more middle and high school students are taking advantage of the summer holidays to make the kind of changes that will impress their peers come fall. But it isn’t a summer class or even a new workout routine they are adopting — it’s cosmetic surgery. more ›