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Han Han, a professional race car driver, best-selling author and China's most popular blogger, ranked second in Time magazine's poll of the most influential people in the world, to be unveiled on April 29, chinanews.com.cn reported Wednesday.
The resignation of the mayor of Zhuanghe city in Liaoning province was accepted Thursday after he ignored scores of villagers who knelt in front of the government building appealing for an investigation into village officials' corruption, people.com.cn reported.
More than 800 different programs are expected to be performed in a total of 20,000 live shows during the 184 days of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
The opening ceremony for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo would cost much less than for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Local police said high pressure from economic disputes was to blame for the death of a billionaire, who committed suicide by drinking pesticide in Feixi county of East China's Anhui province, information portal chinanews.com.cn reported Thursday.
Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, was named China's soul-richest person in the country's first soul-rich list, which was released on Wednesday by the China Social Sciences Press in Beijing, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported Thursday.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced Wednesday that the top-level Chinese domain name ".zhongguo" (written in pinyin) has been approved by the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses, chinanews.com.cn reported.
Beijing will release new housing regulations on Wednesday, making it the first city to have a detailed policy after the State Council, or the cabinet, released 10 guidelines on April 17 in a bid to maintain stability in the housing market, the Shanghai Securities News reported.
Four people have been removed from office in Henan province for confining a villager, who filed a petition against the Daliu township government in Luohe, in a mental hospital for 6 years and a half, chinanews.com.cn reported Wednesday.
More and more cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) were reported in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, with the number in the last week increasing 213.32 percent year-on-year, and 50.33 percent from the previous week.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, launched 3,149 money laundering investigations and reported 654 cases to authorities in 2009, involving a total of 371 billion yuan ($54 billion), the bank said Tuesday in a statement on its website.
A top official of the Guangdong TV station jumped to his death from the station's building at 4:26 pm on April 26, southcn.com reported Wednesday.
