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Hong Kong ranks 31st on a 2009 livability survey of world's 140 cities by Economist magazine, the best performance among nine Chinese cities that edged into the list, the China News Agency citing a news report said.
Tang Ruoxin, former president of China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE), has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for abusing his authority and taking bribes of 3.55 million (US$520,000), the Beijing Times reported Friday.
Passengers of a China South Airlines flight clashed with security workers after being told their flight was cancelled and received no what the travelers called "reasonable" explanation in Changshan, Hunan province.
Seventy-one roads inside Beijing's Fifth Ring Road will be temporarily closed on the Lunar New Year's Eve because of firecrackers, the Beijing Evening News reported Thursday.
The culture-rich tradition of China's Spring Festival should be on the country's top list of potential nominees for World Intangible Cultural Heritage status, Feng Jicai, one of China's famed novelists, wrote for the international edition of People's Daily on Thursday.
Three Taiwan businessmen edged into local people's congress in east China's Xiamen city last month, an unprecedented stride forward on cross-Straits ties that an expert believes might pave a political career for people from Taiwan all the way through to a deputy mayor
Brazilian Deputy Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota will kick off his first official trip to China today, making the last preparations for President Hu Jintao's attendance to the upcoming BRIC summit in Brazil.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased by 1.5 percent in January from the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced.
More than 1,000 Chinese tourists will descend on New York City on a shopping spree expected to hit US$30 million around the Spring Festival, the Global Times citing an American newspaper reported Thursday.
Housing prices in China’s 70 large and medium-sized cities rose 9.5 percent in January 2010 from a year earlier, up 1.3 percent compared to the previous month, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.
The Spring Festival direct charter service between Taiyuan of Shanxi province and Taipei started Wednesday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Chinese Government has decided to appoint Wu Dawei as Special Representative of the Chinese Government on the Korean Peninsular Affairs to be in charge of the Six-Party Talks and related issues, said a notice posted on the foreign ministry's website.
