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Taxi drivers in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality will be required to speak putonghua (standard Mandarin Chinese) instead of Chongqing dialect, and those who disobey the rule will be fined 20 to 100 yuan, Chongqing Evening News reported Thursday.
As BHP Billiton Ltd changed the quarterly pricing of iron ore to monthly, the annual iron ore price talks would be "unnecessary", Luo Bingsheng, former vice-chairman of the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said.
China wants everyone to do physical exercises three times a week within five years, according to a new national fitness program issued by the State Council.
China's top five State-owned banks have called off the mortgage rate discounts for first-time home buyers. They will stick to the benchmark lending rate set by the central bank, the China Securities Journal reported Thursday.
A Nurse has been removed from her post after being accused of writing cruel tweets about her patients, Shandong Business reported Thursday.
People's Bank of China, China's central bank, announced a raise in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50 basis points Feb 18. The new standard became effective Thursday, Xinhua reported.
Two former employees of an airline company and two other persons, charged by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), were sent to jail at the District Court on Wednesday for their involvement in a bribery scam to facilitate the Chinese mainland travelers' check-in to sneak overseas via the HK airport.
"No 1008 Guangming Street" is a shared community address of about 200 elderly people, who were once major criminal offenders serving their sentences over a wall across the street, at Yunnan No 1 Jail. Now they live in a shared community after serving their terms, and the oldest among them is 92, and the youngest is in his 60s.
Zhang Pingyi, once was a journalist in Taiwan, first entered this lost village, a poor Yi ethnic village situated in indigent Yuexi County inside Sichuan Province, 11 years ago for an interview.
A new mobile phone virus, named X Undercover has been discovered to have infected 150,000 people in China allowing hackers to remotely monitor calls.
China's iron ore supplies may have a surplus of more than a 70 million tons this year, the China Securities Journal reported Wednesday, citing Wu Xinchun, deputy secretary-general of the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA).
The State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) has said that all large State-owned enterprises (SOEs), including centrally-administered SOEs, will be listed in the future.
