Lin Congwen

A kindergartener in China cried so hard that she passed out after failing to be admitted by a top elementary school, something she had spent years preparing for.

The skyline of Beijing was once again darkened by dust on the morning of Feb. 28, and sections of highways were closed off to traffic with visibility at less than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles).

In a small town in East China, the groundwater is so polluted by industrial chemicals that there is a funeral nearly every day.

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Tangshan at 10:22 a.m. on May 28.

The CPI is now at its highest level in 37 months with the always politically sensitive food component up 14.8 percent.