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Shanghai police have detained a major highway and property development tycoon on suspicion of bank loan fraud involving 4.6 billion yuan ($671 million), the Oriental Morning Post reported Wednesday.
For 67-year-old Beijinger Zhang Rongsheng and his wife Yang Yuzhen, it was the realization of a lifelong dream: a trip to the island of Taiwan.
Ye Zhiping is not the type of man who waits for others to offer him assistance, he just rolls up his sleeves and gets on with it.
The country's Army Aviation Corps is looking to build on its experience garnered from quake-relief missions in Sichuan over the past weeks, a senior officer said on Friday.
The body of Shao Hua, daughter-in-law of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong and major general of the Chinese army, was cremated at the Babaoshan cemetery in Beijing Wednesday.
When former diving champion Gao Min heard the scholarship she had provided had helped two young women to complete their college education, she said she was overcome with delight.
The wedding came too late. Yang Weihua posed for her wedding photograph on Saturday. But instead of the groom in person, it was his portrait that she posed with.
When it comes to spiritual and philosophical guidance, it is not just the Chinese who turn to Confucius.
A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.
China awarded 50 youngsters Friday for their bravery in the rescue after the May 12 earthquake that jolted Sichuan Province. Reports on Quake Relief, Reconstruction
"Runner Fan", nickname of Fan Meizhong, has created a controversy because he ran out of the classroom leaving his students behind when the May 12 quake struck.
General Shao Hua, wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of late Chairman Mao Zedong, died in Beijing on Tuesday.
