A property developer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, not only refused to pay its 2,000 migrant workers' wages on time, but also beat them up when they had the audacity to demand for payment, leaving 37 wounded. more ›

Last month's horrifying rear-end collision on the Shanghai Metro saw 284 people hospitalised and while thankfully nobody died from the incident, many questions remain unanswered. more ›

While President Hu Jintao may be the captain of the world's second largest economy, he pays himself a very modest salary of approximately US$10,633 per annum. That's a tiny fraction of the US$184,000 that Ma Ying-Jeou, the President of Taiwan, and the US$530,000 that Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, take home each year. more ›

In case you were curious: The average monthly wage for Shanghai workers in 2009 was 3566RMB, an increase of 8.3% from last year's 2008. While the wage still went up, however, it was the lowest average wage growth figure recorded in the last decade. By comparison, last year's wages went up from the year befores by 13.8%, and the year before that it shot up 17.4%. Guess Shanghai wages were also a victim of the recession. more ›

As revealed by Qilu TV, the top three earners in the Chinese sports world ranked according to the sum of their basic annual pay, prize money, endorsement and appearance fees are Yao Ming (RMB250 million), Liu Xiang (RMB70 million) and Guo Jingjing (RMB15 million). These are followed by Sun Jihai (RMB10 million), Shao Jiayi (RMB6 million), Dong Fangzhuo (RMB4.8 million) and Zheng Zhi (RMB4.5 million). more ›