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Top court vows to raise judges' pay

[2014-07-09 07:31]

China's top court said it will increase the incomes of judges and provide better job protection as part of an ongoing judicial reform.

Merkel: 'Correct grasp of history' is vital

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Citing her own country as an example, visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated the importance of the correct understanding of history.

'Ample legal basis' seen for trial of couple

[2014-07-09 07:31]

The trial of a couple arrested last year following work they did for British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC in China will be handled according to the law, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Colleges to retest athletes who got gaokao bonuses

[2014-07-09 07:31]

The Ministry of Education is calling on Chinese universities to retest student athletes' sports abilities following suspected abuse of athletic certificates for bonus points in the gaokao, the national college entrance exam.

Watchdog finds defective condoms, catheters, IV sets

[2014-07-09 07:31]

The China Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that it will levy harsher punishments for the illegal production and sale of medical equipment after it discovered defective products in a nationwide survey.

Nation to increase staff numbers at UN, other civil service posts

[2014-07-09 07:31]

China will invest more in cultivating high-caliber talent for posts at the United Nations and boost the number of staff members at international bodies in the next few years, a top human resources official said on Monday.

Confessions of Japanese war criminals

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Editor's note: Earlier this month, China's State Archives Administration released a number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The criminals received sentences of eight-to-20 years' imprisonment from the special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, China's top court. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:

Nanjing races to clean air before Youth Games

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Nanjing is going all-out to guarantee the best air quality possible in the city as it prepares to host the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in August.

Demand grows for skilled yue sao nannies

[2014-07-09 07:31]

The demand for Chinese yue sao - nannies for baby and mother in the first months after birth - is rising on the back of an expected baby boom in the Year of the Horse and relaxed family planning regulations.

Art Special: Spiritual quest

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Nearly blind, Buddhist master Hsing Yun continues to create calligraphy that inspires, reports Wang Qian.

Around China

[2014-07-08 07:25]

Fire engulfed a protective screen on an aboveground section of the Beijing subway on Sunday evening. No one was injured, firefighters said. A fire that broke out at a warehouse had ignited the subway screen. Nineteen fire engines rushed to the site and put out the blaze at 8:26 pm.

Quotable

[2014-07-08 07:25]

"Cross-Straits relations should keep making progress and the two sides should increase interaction and deepen communication, continually enhancing mutual understanding."

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