China's AIDS epidemic shows no signs of abating with an estimated 70,000 new HIV infections occurring in 2005, according to a report released by the Chinese Ministry of Health, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization.

The Shanghai Municipal Tourism Administrative Commission says that star ratings of 23 hotels have been revoked.

Google plans to re-launch its Chinese-language search service as a self-censored version of its international search engine under a new domain name at Google.cn.

Two representatives from China last week attended the Seventh Session of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities in New York to address the rights and needs of disabled children.

After receiving consumer complaints, the Zhejiang Provincial Pricing Bureau (ZPPB) now says that it will start a special inspection on the pricing of telecom products in the province.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has written to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to protest Microsoft Corporation's closing of Chinese Internet users' blogs.

At the press conference sponsored by the State Council Information Office, Chen Jian, assistant minister of Commerce, briefed the press on China's humanitarian aid for foreign countries in 2005 and its overall stance on providing international humanitarian relief.