BEIJING - CHINA'S parliament on Saturday passed an amendment to the country's law on earthquake safety and disaster relief, imposing stricter building standards for schools to make them more resistant to earthquakes, state media said.
BEIJING - CHINA'S top legislative body, the National People's Congress, will start its next annual session on March 5, 2009, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
BEIJING - CHINESE dairy firms that sold baby formula tainted with the industrial chemical melamine will pay compensation to the families of nearly 300,000 children who were killed or sickened as a result, state media reported.
Twenty-two dairy producers will make one-off cash payments to the families, the Xinhua news agency cited China's Dairy Industry Association as saying on Saturday.
