Even though Beijing has lifted the red alert for severe pollution, the capital city will remain in haze for a few more days. The Beijing municipal heavy pollution emergency response headquarters issued a blue alert for heavy pollution in ...
Customs staff in Shanghai have seized more than 80,000 pieces of smuggled mink fur and detained 13 suspects. The fur was packed in 671 boxes of fiber, customs said on Thursday. The suspects confessed that they had illegally transport ...
A total of 32,041 redundant leader posts have been eliminated in the past three years, according to the top personnel department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Thursday. The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee ...
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Student Li Xiangnan has been charged with the killing of his girlfriend Shao Tong, in the United States, Wenzhou City People's Procuratorate said. Li, 24, a native of east China's Zhejiang Province, is accused of strangling his girlfriend ...
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Chinese legislators on Thursday urged intensified efforts to keep local government debt under control, warning against potential default in the future. Legislators made the comments when attending a panel discussion of the ongoing ...
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The General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Thursday it has intensified crackdown on smuggling of rare animals and plants through 2015. Customs authorities nationwide discovered 160 smuggling cases from January to November, seizing ...
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China hopes the visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister Thapa would cement China-Nepal comprehensive cooperative partnership, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson here on Thursday. Thapa, also Nepalese foreign minister, is on an ...
Three people were killed and another six injured, when a tower crane collapsed at an east China construction site Thursday, local authorities said. The accident happened at around 1:30 p.m. at Guoxin Sports Center in Qingdao City, ...
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A gypsum mine in Pingyi County, in east China's Shandong Province, reportedly collapsed on Friday morning. Many people are believed to have been buried in the mine, but the number of casualties is currently unknown. A rescue operation ...
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China is expected to launch a stock connect scheme between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses next year, said a senior official of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Friday. The stock connect schemes allow investors to ...
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A draft amendment to the population and family planning law is being discussed by the top legislature. Along with the universal two-child policy, the amendment covers issues including illegal surrogacy and the cancellation of extended ...
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Japan's Cabinet has approved a record-high military budget for fiscal 2016. The 5 trillion yen, or 42 billion U.S. dollar plan marks the fourth consecutive year that Japan has increased its defense budget. This is the first defense ...
A new Chinese-made space-based telescope tasked with searching for signs of "dark matter" has formally begun its mission, beaming its first set of data to ground stations on Thursday. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, ...
Tags: Monkey King, Data Home
Hong Kong has replaced New York this year as the world's biggest IPO market by the amount of funds raised. According to data from Reuters, companies have raised 25 billion U.S. dollars from initial public offerings in Hong Kong so far ...
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China's latest efforts to stimulate its economy by deepening structural reform will produce rich "dividends" shared within China's borders and across the world. While the effectiveness of traditional demand-side policy support lessens, ...
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