A Chinese court granted a man who spent more than 11 years behind bars after a false murder conviction 1.27 million yuan (200,000 U.S. dollars) in state compensation on Monday. Citing insufficient evidence, the Xiangtan Intermediate ...
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The former president of a key university in east China's Jiangxi Province was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for bribery and embezzlement of public funds. Zhou Wenbin was found guilty of accepting cash and gifts worth more than 21 ...
China has experienced less serious desertification over the past decade with data revealing that desertified areas have been shrinking, the forestry authority said on Tuesday. By the end of 2014, there was 2.61 million square kilometers ...
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In the Chinese government's ongoing fight to try to clean up this country's air, a new focus is being being put on small-scale companies in an effort to get them onboard with reducing emissions. Over the past few years, the central ...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015 opened in Budapest on Monday with keynote addresses by ITU Secretary-General Zhao Houlin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zhao underlined that small and ...
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China's largest rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Corp. has developed a new generation of super graphene capacitors that can power electric buses with higher efficiency and for a longer period. The train maker has produced two types of ...
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The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
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Local police in Shenzhen have taken compulsory measures against 12 people connected to this month's deadly landslide in the city. The 12 include executives of the company running the dump site where a massive mountain of mud and ...
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China's leading rail producer, the China Railway Construction Corporation, has signed agreements with the west African countries of Senegal and Mali to renovate a rail line linking the two countries. The project itself is worth around 2.7 ...
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China on Tuesday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-4, as part of the country's high-definition (HD) earth observation project. Gaofen-4 was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern ...
It's been announced a group of Chinese scientists are going to be joining an expert panel later this year to lay out guidelines for a controversial new procedure connected to human genome research. The Chinese Academy of Sciences will ...
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Robot sales in China are set to almost triple by 2018. Data shows annual robot sales in China may jump to 150-thousand by the end of 2018, up from 57-thousand last year. The country is trying to modernize its industrial production and ...
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The 2015 Xingyun (Nebula) Award for Global Chinese Science Fiction was announced Sunday in Chengdu, with the best achievement prize awarded to Liu Cixin, the first Asian writer to win "Best Novel" at the 2015 Hugo Award. Liu won the Hugo ...
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Photo provided by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tooth fossils found in Daoxian county in central China's Hunan Province. These tooth fossils indicate the early ...
It's been about half a year since the idea of Internet Plus Strategy was raised by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The strategy is an action plan to integrate the mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and the Internet of Things with modern ...