President Xi Jinping pays a visit to soldiers at military barracks in Fujian province on Wednesday. Xi, who worked in Fujian for 17 years, called on troops to strengthen ties with the people. Li Gang / Xinhua
Maneuvers to test combat capability, better prepare for security challenge
An IT engineer received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday after invading a network server and stealing users' data, Beijing Times reported on Thursday. The 30-year-old engineer, surnamed Wang, worked as a security testing engineer at a local company. He hacked into another network company's server and took data over two days in August 2013 to impress colleagues with his technological prowess.
The 25-year-old, who specializes in foreign nursing care, will fly with seven other Chinese nurses to Stuttgart, Germany, to work at a residential care center for the elderly for at least three years.
Hong Kong's 'opposition' camp is discovering how little support it has in the international community for its unconstitutional cause
'Heartfelt' biography will talk about elder Bush's influence on his son
Premier Li Keqiang made proposals on Thursday to remove barriers to the development of the pioneer of the nation's industrialization in the 1950s to the 1970s, a broad area of Northeast China that covers Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and an eastern section of Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
War games were once the order of the day on the Inner Mongolian grasslands, those vast tracts of Asian prairie that have seen centuries of power play between Chinese Han and Mongolian armies. They were peopled by ferocious armies, nomadic tribes and wolves.
Many Chinese netizens declared themselves heartbroken to learn of popular actress Tang Wei and South Korean director Kim Tae-yong's sudden engagement recently. But the shock of the announcement was soon overshadowed by the news that the two held an impromptu wedding in Sweden.
Tiger Woods finds out over the next two weeks if his season is over or just getting started.