A driver in Beijing has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for dragging a toll collector in a parking lot to his death, Beijing Times reported. Yang Xue'ou, 30, refused to pay the toll collector, surnamed Ding, 30 yuan ($4.80) and sped off with the collector holding her car door. Yang was charged with intentional homicide and was ordered to pay 43,000 yuan to the victim's family.
"The safety risk for PX (paraxylene), like other petrochemical products, is controllable. It's like when we bring our kids to the zoo; animals like tigers won't hurt visitors as long as they are locked inside the cage."
Shanghai launched a new English-language website and a mobile app on Friday in the city's latest effort to attract more international students and promote one of Asia's most popular study destinations.
Excessive levels of benzene in tap water have affected more than 2.4 million people in downtown Lanzhou, Gansu province, provincial authorities said on Friday.
A former popular Chinese micro-blogger pleaded guilty on Friday to fabricating online rumors to agitate the public.
The establishment of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone marks a major strategy for China to push reforms, innovation and economic development through further opening-up, said senior government officials and experts during the 2014 Boao Forum for Asia.
With China becoming increasingly connected with the rest of the world, scholars and politicians are calling for public diplomacy as a way to build its image.
The Russia-China Investment Fund, a private equity fund into which each nation has committed $1 billion, will invest up to 70 percent in a broad range of Russian economic sectors.
New US Ambassador to China Max Baucus said the China-US relationship is considered the "most important bilateral relationship in the world" and the two countries should not be distracted by differences.
Beijing is considering introducing insurance to cover adverse vaccine reactions, the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission said on its website on Wednesday. "Though the probability (of severe abnormal reactions) is only 1 in several million, the reactions have a major effect on children and their families," said Xie Hui, director of the disease prevention and control department under the commission, as quoted by Beijing Times.
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