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Cold front to bring snow to N China A cold front will sweep China's northern regions during the next few days, bringing snowfalls and big temperature drops, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast today. From Friday to Sunday, snow will fall in parts of northwest China, north China and northeast China as the cold front moves eastward, dragging temperatures down by four to eight degrees Celsius, the NMC said. Some areas may even see temperatures fall by 10 degrees Celsius during the next few days. In the country's southern regions, persistent rainfall will stop by Sunday. China's southern areas, including the Yangtze River valley and parts of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces as well as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, have been hit by rain since Wednesday. Experts have warned citizens to pay attention to road conditions and traffic safety while driving amid snowy or rainy weather over the weekend. image DonLam Image has added a photo to the pool:...

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Vice-Premier Li Keqiang vowed more support, especially in registration and funding, for grassroots organizations committed to combating HIV/AIDS. Vice-Premier Li Keqiang meets representatives of NGOs that are helping to combat HIV/AIDS in Beijing on Monday. Some of the representatives are HIV-positive. [Photo/China News Service] Li pledged the greater support during a meeting on Monday with representatives of non-government organizations helping to combat HIV/AIDS. "Civil societies play an indispensable role in the national battle against HIV/AIDS, particularly in better reaching out to vulnerable groups, and the government should support them in funding, registration, and boosting their capacity," he said after greeting and meeting the representatives, some of whom were HIV positive. He suggested adopting a model where health authorities buy services from these organizations to help fund their work and "a special fund would be set up to support their ...

A surgeon and six others were sent to prison Thursday after being convicted for their involvement in the case of a teenager selling his kidney for an iPhone and an iPad . Now do you see the evils that Apple has inflicted upon China? Seven out of nine defendants were sentenced for intentional injury and two others, though guilty, were exempt from criminal punishment for their minor roles in the crime, according to the verdict. The People's Court of Beihu District in Chenzhou City of central China's Hunan Province sentenced He Wei, who organized the illegal kidney trade in April 2011, to five years imprisonment. Song Zhongyu, the surgeon who conducted the transplant, was sentenced to three years with a reprieve of five years. The other five were given jail terms ranging from one to four years. Wang, a 17-year-old high school student from Anhui Province, agreed to sell one of his kidneys after the teenager met the gang through an online chatroom. His kidney was tra...

A leading headhunting website yesterday removed a recruitment ad that favors gay applicants after the criteria made a stir on the Internet. But soon after the ad was removed, the advertiser angrily accused the website of discriminating against homosexuals and demanded it issue an open apology for deleting the ad without discussing it with them. Though the company offering the job won some support among netizens, some of them wondered whether the company was only promoting itself by using a controversial topic. The incident started when an Internet user wrote yesterday that she was shocked to see a company offering high salaries to recruit gays on the headhunting website, 51job.com. According to a screenshot picture she uploaded online, the company wrote in the ad in both Chinese and English that applicants for a job position as public relations manger should be "male, aged 25 to 30," while being "homosexual is the first priority." "I was so upset ...

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South Korea held a final dress rehearsal Wednesday for its third attempt to send a satellite into orbit and join an elite space club that includes Asian powers China, Japan and India. After two previous failures in 2009 and 2010, the 140-tonne Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-I) is scheduled to blast off some time after 4:00pm (0700 GMT) Thursday from the Naro Space Center on the south coast. Success will mean a huge boost for South Korea, a late entrant into the high-cost world of space technology and exploration desperate to get its commercial launch programme up and running. Wednesday's preparations included launch simulations of both the rocket's Russian-built first stage and the South Korean-built second stage. The launch had initially been scheduled for October 26, but it was cancelled at the last minute after engineers detected a broken rubber seal in a connector between the launch pad and the first stage. A long delay ensued as the faulty se...