China's e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group boosted its presence in Brazil by signing a memorandum of understanding with the country's official postal service, Correios, on Thursday, aiming to facilitate cross-border e-commerce between the two BRICS countries.
As President Xi Jinping watched, two Chinese companies signed agreements in Brazil on Thursday to buy 60 jets from Brazilian aerospace conglomerate Embraer SA.
When Argentina hosted the 1978 World Cup, Chinese TV viewers got their first taste of live action from the event, but their knowledge of the country was then limited, as it had been only six years since diplomatic ties were established.
Officials in China's southernmost province evacuated more than 230,000 people from their homes and shuttered tourist resorts and schools on Friday as a strengthening Typhoon Rammasun made landfall in Wenchang, Hainan province, toppling trees, snarling traffic and causing a man's death.
Roughly 7.83 billion yuan ($1.25 billion) in public funds for China's affordable housing projects has been misused by local governments, according to the National Audit Office.
A forestry program to battle desertification and improve air quality has taken root in the Tibet autonomous region.
Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to eight-to-20 years prison term. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions.
An Internet security giant sued China's largest search engine enterprise in a Beijing court on Friday, claiming unfair competition.
Beijing police recently detained a man who had stuffed a condom filled with heroin in his underpants, the Beijing Times reported on Thursday. The 42-year-old man, surnamed Liu, smuggled the heroin onto a train heading to Beijing from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and was caught by police on July 12 as the train arrived in the capital. Police said they had been tipped off, and they found he was carrying 150 g of heroin.
"Language is a carrier of culture. Introducing Chinese domains is a way of promoting Chinese culture in the age of the Internet."
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